Reid Collins
“‘Follow the money?’ Are we nuts? It doesn’t take an FBI agent hiding in a garage to come up with that one. In Washington, that’s axiomatic. To find out anything about anybody, ‘follow the money.’ Sniff out ol’ Jesse Unruh’s…
Duly noted on the science page of the Washington Post was the induction into the Inventors’ Hall of Fame of guitarist Les Paul who, with wife Mary Ford, produced some hit records in decades past with their electric guitar duets….
“It’s the assumptions that’ll hurt us.” Uncle Pundit himself is given to assuming, so I bit. “What assumptions?” “Those that stem from letting that plane and those pilots get by with it.” Oh, the two guys in the Pennsylvania Cessna….
It is fashionable to smile when reminded of the author Clifford Odets. His Waiting For Lefty and the associated body of his works reflected that old 1930s view of capitalism and capitalists. Naivete, they came to call it, when being…
Arriving for a consistory that would elect the short-lived John Paul I successor to Pope Paul VI, we remember the Cardinal from Krakow saying, “No, no. I am not papabili.” His Eminence, Karol Wojtyla, was thus diverting press attention from…
Something else died yesterday morning. No, don’t mean Terri Schiavo, that “vegetable” the portside media has been telling us has been deceased all along. What died was trust. To say that it had been at death’s door for many years…
It was a week for those who mourn the human condition, and we didn’t even have to wait for T. S. Elliot’s April. The nine-year-old girl in Florida had lain dead for three weeks across the street from the place…
There they were, on C-Span 2, for 50 minutes Sunday Evening. Former CBS News Correspondent Tom Fenton interviewed about his book, Bad News. And the interviewer? A man whose truly bad news was inextricably tied to an event of the…
“Yuh gotta understand,” says Uncle Pundit. “They aren’t the same, and yet they are, in the public mind.” I don’t know from apples about John Dillinger, America’s Public Enemy Number One back in the pre-CEO days, but I know Uncle…
By George, he’s got it! Yes, Leslie Moonves has hit upon the formula for reversing all that Henry Higgins taught Eliza Doolittle about the king’s English. And all some newscasters once held sacred. And not just pronunciation, either; the whole…
