Cleaning off my desk on New Year’s Day, I find a few random thoughts I never got to in 2006… Does wiping an apple on my shirt do anything? I don’t know how old I was when I picked up that habit, but I find myself doing it unconsciously every time I have one. It […]
Lots of e-mailers have written wanting my comments on the game of tag being banned by yet another elementary school, this time in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, it’s just symptomatic of the litigious times we live in, with school districts afraid that some kid will fall and scrape their knee, followed by their lowlife parents filing […]
One of the big stories in the radio industry on Friday was that Air America has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. That doesn’t mean they’re going off the air, but it certainly isn’t good. I’ve known all along that Air America wasn’t going to succeed, and it has nothing to do with it being […]
Today, President Bush signed the ports safety legislation, which also includes a ban on internet gambling. What one has to do with the other, or why an online poker game might be a threat to national security, I have no idea. The problem with the online gambling ban is hypocrisy of our politicians criminalizing betting […]
Notes from my recent trip to LA… Had a terrific dinner with Jon Macks at a steakhouse he suggested called The Lodge, where he had promised me two things: Jimmy Caan and Peppercorn Bacon. We didn’t see Jimmy (and if we did, he’d have been Mr. Caan to me, or at best, James), and I […]
Talk about Old School. In 1957, Chuck Berry had a hit that started, “Up in the mornin’ and out to school!” Fast-forward to the present and you’ll find that sentiment sorely lacking in our city. The St. Louis public schools started the new year Monday, and only 72% of the kids showed up. On Tuesday, […]