Larry Thornberry
Perhaps you’ve noticed it too. Britain has actors, whereas America has movie stars (see George Clooney, whom I would trade…
A writer friend and I were email rapping on the current state of journalism, and the general worthlessness of j-school…
The Tampa Bay Times reports that during a 20-day period almost 2,000 Floridians voluntarily un-registered themselves to vote. This number is more than…
Well now that was quick, wasn’t it? Perhaps now Scaramouche will return to the obscurity he so richly deserves. But…
Don’t ever bet that higher education can’t go any lower. You’re bound to lose. Two recent and sorry examples prove…
Tampa In line with other jumpy elected officials in jurisdictions below the Mason and Dixon, county commissioners in Hillsborough County,…
I see the lineup card for the meeting between Don Jr. and Svetlana Russki has gotten longer yet again. By the…
In Monday’s NYT there is yet another article about the supposedly new discovery, complete with new, abstract, and techie-sounding words, of…
MLB Network’s Prime 9, the baseball network’s program that rates the best of baseball in just about every conceivable category, chose Casey Stengel as “baseball’s greatest character” in 2009. It was a good choice, though there was tough competition for the honor, and one of the beauties of baseball is it can produce endless talk (I hesitate to say arguments) about who the greatest (or worst) this or that is or was. In this case, what about Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Uecker, Rocky Bridges?
Speaking of the All-Star break, it’s time for that annual interruption of the everydayness of real baseball for an exhibition…
