This morning on Meet the Press, Tim Russert had a table of religious experts and at the end said they just had enough time for each of them to give a twenty second message for people on Easter. Well, then…
This morning I was working when I thought, I wonder if Muriel Spark has died, and I went online and put in her name, and yes, she had died in Italy, the news was announced a few hours ago. It’s…
I fell for Lindsey Graham during the Impeachment hearings back in ’98 when he was still a Congressman. I used to talk to him after the hearings. The things I love about him are: he’s independent-minded, incredibly gifted politically, and…
I’m fascinated by the fact that I’m not getting any money to blog. Still, I’m at it. Last year I went to a congressional hearing as a reporter for a fancy magazine that was paying me several thousand dollars for…
I just caught Joe Torre’s locker room press conference minutes after the Yankees’ sudden-death 6-5 loss to the Twins, and it was amazing. It’s only the beginning of the season and it was like someone had died. Torre was stricken,…
ESPN celebrated Jackie Robinson day by having no blacks at the desk for Baseball Tonight. 0-4. The oversight was especially glaring because minutes before the network had (re)aired its splendid documentary on the high school career of black basketball player…
In the last few days it’s come home to me (a little late!) that we are in a deepening crisis. Have to hand it to you left wing alarmists, you were way ahead of me. My late wake-up call was…
After Peter Jennings’s death I made the Pepsi switch to NBC because Brian Williams seems real and knows how to turn a phrase. Tonight, though, he lost me with a report on a movie about Flight 93, a movie in…