Reid Collins
So, Uncle Pundit, why are gas prices so high? “Simple, my boy: supply and demand. Don’t you read the papers?” Yes, but — “It’s in the lexicon of all the big oil companies: ‘Supply and Demand — you supply the…
Dear compromised Senators: Lemme get this straight. If I have been a criminal for more than five years, it’s welcome to the family. Two to five and I have to go back and take a running start. Criminal for less…
The personable Montana Governor, Brian Schweitzer, made a big hit recently with a lengthy appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes, telling Lesley Stahl that Montana has a solution to the nation’s energy problems — coal. Eastern Montana swims on a bed…
“Conflictions! I love it!” Uncle Pundit was rejoicing. But is that really a word? “Of course it is a word. In disuse now, maybe, but a noun that means in a state of conflict.” Where do you see it? “You…
It has been learned on good authority (remember that one?) that the Washington Redskins are not among the several Indian Tribes to receive refunds from the Abramoff kitty.
The tragedy of West Virginia supplied several instructions. America learned, for example, that newspapers do indeed have deadlines — times certain when the presses must roll. And that cub reporter who races into the city room crying, “Stop the presses!”…
Watching Mel Karmazin promote Howard Stern on satellite radio is like finding your defrocked priest selling condoms on a street corner.
It was the measure of the media on Saturday, December 10, 2005. A tale of two obituaries. Two men who had influenced opinion and events had died, both in the same news cycle. A Richard Pryor and a Eugene McCarthy….
Speaking of semantic insanity: the day they crucified Christ we call “Good Friday.” The day the retailers enrich themselves we call “Black Friday.”
As “Engine Charlie” Wilson used to say: “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country, and what’s good for the country is good for General Motors.” (Though the media usually omitted the corollary half of the saying.) By…
