Today was an emotional day. Evening news lost one of its most intelligent, insightful, entertaining anchors. And I don’t mean Brian Williams, who was suspended today for 6 months without pay. No, I mean Jon Stewart. He announced today that after 17 years in the trenches, he will be leaving The Daily Show later this year. … Continue reading Jon Stewart: Onward and upward
Remember Susan Boyle’s appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent” when she sang “I Dreamed a Dream”? I’d have guessed it was maybe two years ago. It’s actually been almost six years (April 11, 2009). Where’d those six years go?? Anyway, I enjoyed seeing it again. Hope you do too. I wrote about it at the time: … Continue reading Has it really been that long?
When I pretend everything is what I want it to be I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see ~ Linkin Park, “Lying from You” Continue reading Brian Williams: Conscience and credibility
Back in 2012 when Fareed Zakaria was caught quoting another author’s work without attribution (commonly referred to as plagiarism), his employers investigated and, for the most part, let him off the hook. After all, he did apologize. Now it seems those determined investigators over at Our Bad Media, @blippoblappo and @crushingbort, have dug up some more Zakaria … Continue reading Zakaria a plagiarist? You be the judge
Robin McLaurin Williams July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014 R.I.P. O Captain, my Captain Continue reading Robin Williams dead at 63
I lost a big piece of my childhood Sunday. James Garner, star of “Maverick,” “The Rockford Files,” and more than 50 movies, died. He was 86. Garner, you see, was born in Norman, Okla., just down the road from where I lived in Oklahoma City. He was practically a neighbor, a hometown boy. And I … Continue reading Adios, Maverick
