That is the title of the best op-ed piece written so far this political season. And it did not come from a journalist or pundit or blogger. It comes from Elizabeth Edwards and is a must read from Sunday’s (4/27) New York Times. The bottom line is as the political season [...]

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I am not a “told you so” kind of guy but I told you so. Weeks ago we said here that Indiana would be big in the primary process. As it turns out it is now huge which is bigger than just big. And it is just not because of the remaining [...]

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For the thousands of us who have been along for the decades long ride of the E Street Band, our hearts are heavy today. We lost a member of our extended family, Danny Federici. Danny has been a member of the band from the beginning and a friend of Bruce Springsteen since they [...]

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One of the most enduring memories of my childhood came when I was eight years old. My best friend’s dad took the two of us to work with him one day. Tom Murphy was a foreman at the huge (nearly a mile long) J&L steel plant on Pittsburgh’s south side. I was [...]

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How many times have you said this in your life, “why didn’t I think of that first?” You know what I am talking about. Like putting water in a plastic bottle and selling it for a dollar-fifty. The latest example of this comes from a fellow named Ron Johnson of Chicago. [...]

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Last night, I had the opportunity to see Barack Obama’s campaign rally here in South Bend. Tickets were gone within ten minutes on Tuesday, but because of my longstanding relationships with the local media, I was able to get credentials in return for some live post-event analysis.
As I sit here and begin to form my [...]

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In case you missed it, some scores from the NCAA Basketball Championships. Duke 67, West Virginia 33. Kansas State 67, USC 23. Marquette 89, Kentucky 23. Notre Dame 91, Washington State 35.
What, you didn’t see those games on CBS?
Actually those aren’t basketball scores, but Graduation Success Rates (GSR) for men’s basketball programs, calculated by the [...]

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The last week has not been good for the conventional (that means old I guess) media. First I am no sooner one page into Eric Alterman’s article in the New Yorker “Out Of Print” when I reach the conclusion he is performing the Final Rites for America’s newspapers. Several days later a bomb [...]

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