I’m happy to say that Senate Joint Resolution 39, which would have legalized religious bigotry against LGBT people in Missouri, died in a House committee last night. As my guest Tony Messenger (who has railed against it in his columns for the Post-Dispatch) pointed out, the law was so poorly written that it would have […]
Here’s my conversation with Ben Radford about his book, “Bad Clowns.” Our conversation ranged from John Wayne Gacy to The Joker to Ronald McDonald to Punch and Judy. I also asked him why so many people are afraid of clowns, and when that phenomenon started. Listen to our conversation here.
I have believed for a long time that the reason so many Americans say they hate math is that they got turned off to it in high school. Like my daughter, they were probably pretty good with arithmetic when they were younger (I taught her all sorts of tricks with numbers, which she loved), but […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed three movies — “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” “Miles Ahead,” and “Elvis and Nixon.” We also discussed Amazon and Hulu increasing the competition for Netflix in streaming video, and recommended a few movies and TV shows to watch. Listen to our conversation […]
Doris Roberts, best known for her years as Marie Barone on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died yesterday at age 90. She had a career that lasted over 60 years, and in April, 2003, she published her autobiography, “Are You Hungry, Dear?” That’s when I got a chance to talk with her about: How she wasn’t even […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I reviewed three movies — “The Jungle Book,” “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” and “Criminal” — one of which ranks among the worst movies of the year. We also talked about texting in movie theaters, James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels, Ben Affleck taking the helm […]