Tennis gets a lot of attention in my house because my wife loves the game. She records and watches all the coverage of every day of the four majors (Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open, US Open). Four years ago, we took our daughter to London and made a special side trip to see the All […]
Michael Smerconish, a radio host and newspaper columnist in Philadelphia, has an op-ed in the Washington Post today about how the political center doesn’t have a voice in daily American media — at least on the 24-hour TV news networks and talk radio. It’s a point I’ve been making for years, my 80/10 principle, in […]
When the use of back-scatter x-ray machines became more widespread, I knew there would be privacy problems. Some minimum-wage security guy was going to see the outline of someone’s body through their clothes and have a Beavis & Butthead reaction to that physical form. That’s exactly what happened six month ago at Miami International Airport. […]
David Letterman has had many celebrities, sports stars, and politicians do Top Ten Lists on his show. The formula is always Dave setting up the premise, announcing each slot in the list, then having the celebrity fill in the entry. Only once did they work it in reverse. In September, 1993 (shortly after Dave moved […]
While on KTRS today, I played the audio of Sen. Carl Levin going after a Goldman Sachs executive in a Senate committee hearing yesterday. At one point, Levin read from a GS internal memo that referred to a deal as “shitty.” Levin used that word over and over — 11 times in a four minute […]
Last night, we went to an exhibition tennis match between John McEnroe and Jim Courier, who put on quite a show. The crowd obviously came to see McEnroe, expecting at least one rant about a missed line call. They got that rant quickly, but it was from Courier, the victim of two bad calls in […]