I’m starting to feel that the same person that calls sports radio talk shows, is the same guy who gets in bitter battles with people on comment boards. I separate this from the standard sort of person that comments with a retort to the written piece, and even a well reasoned reply to another commenter. [...]
Is referring to someone’s age in a political campaign the same as referring to someone’s race? Should age talk be out of bounds in the Presidential election? After Senator Obama referred to John McCain “losing his bearings” during the Hamas endorsement affair, McCain’s people went mental as if Obama had used a racial epithet. McCain [...]
I’ve found today that no matter how much one may claim to loathe a blow-hard, we all have a blow-hard that we subscribe to with full abandon. Even I, love the blow-hard, even though by and large I rant against it. This space is quite fond of Keith Olbermann, but the man is a total [...]
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” -Plato
I do hope that election night in November does not resemble this.
I am a huge sports fan, but I absolutely loathe most sports broadcasting. Most Sports pundits rarely if every predict anything brave beyond stating that last years champion will win again this year, and most play by play men are steeped in hysterics trying to be the next Johnny Most or Myron Cope. When broadcasters [...]
How does one get a hyphenated name if you are a man? I can understand women who are from prominent families that want to keep the name. But how does a man get a hyphenated name, like McCain chief economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin?
This afternoon in the midst of a hectic Friday I took a quick glance at the blog Crooks & Liars and was struck by the headline I had found. NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and host of Meet The Press Tim Russert had died of a heart attack at the age of 58. Now I [...]
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