Once upon a time movies were preceded by vaudeville acts. I don’t know just when this practice stopped, but it was before the advent of multiplex movie houses when movie houses also served as live theaters. I loved the act where a guy in a top hat comes out and tells you all the wonderful [...]
Read More...The New York Daily News, a tabloid newspaper, celebrated the birth of the nation Friday by devoting its first three pages to Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez’s sputtering marriage, a breathtakingly perverse feat.
Among the matters the News invited us to consider was the
possibility that Madonna had interested A-Rod in the Qaballah, thereby somehow endangering his marriage. [...]
John McCain, who knows a thing or two about the Navy, thinks military recruits should be instructed in our foreign policy. But foreign policies fluctuate with our political EKG, while our national ideals, however soiled they may be by scare tactics, hold fast.
My most memorable experience in Navy boot camp in the early 1950s [...]
(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 43, one of my regular pod casts for The Student Operated Press)
There’s a crucial difference between balanced reporting and insightful reporting. You can listen to this difference by tuning into the Yes Network and listening to color commentator David Cone, the famously versatile former pitcher who once [...]
Daniel Cabrera, the towering Baltimore Orioles starter, plunked Yankee left fielder Hideki Matsui twice Friday night. The second hit smelled bad. Matsui grimaced in pain both times, but by the time he got to first base he chatted amiably with the voluble Orioles first baseman Kevin Millar. The presidential hopefuls could learn something from Matsui’s [...]
Read More...(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 34, my weekly podcast for The Student Operated Press to journalism students)
Transparency International is an organization that monitors corruption throughout the world. In its latest report the United States ranks Number 22 in corruption, far from the bottom, but much too far from the top. What does [...]
Read More... A calamity has befallen me as a baseball lover. One expects calamities of old age, of course, but not absurd calamities. I’ve begun to find it too painful to watch the other side lose. It doesn’t matter which other side.
I’m a Yankee fan, and this season has been harrowing. There has been the exhilaration [...]