Reid Collins
With President Bush’s Mars initiative freshly plopped on the table, we can prepare for the usual cannonade of reasons for and against. Against is easy. “With a deficit looming, we can’t afford it.” “It isn’t necessary, a waste of money.”…
… “loan me your ears.” “Loan?” Of course not. “Lend” was and is the verb. Senator Kerry did not “loan” money to his political campaign. He lent it, in the form of a loan. Only on the ten o’clock news…
It was a televised night to remember. Not a ship sinking, but a society listing heavily to port. Thursday, December 4. You could catch the traditional lighting of the nation’s Christmas Tree out on the ellipse in Washington, some good…
Those who remember the slogan, “Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco,” probably recall the early days of television hucksterism when Betty Furness sold refrigerators simply by opening an appliance door. She wore an apron over her housewife’s dress. Gone. All gone….
Awful as it seems, there is a certain redemptive aspect to what happened to Roy Horn of the Las Vegas act, “Siegfried and Roy.” It was the redemption of verity. A truth. Call the tiger by its pet name, “Montecore.”…
Convict Us Out of the night that covers me, Black as a Public Utility’s soul, I curse whatever gods may be For telling Edison to use a pole. “String ’em high,” these furies said. “Put your wires as high as…
Giving money to a political party is like feeding a stray cat. Do it once, and it’ll be yowling on your doorstep for the rest of your natural life. Jesse Unruh may have been right about money being the mother’s…
It took the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to bring a U.S. Supreme Court decision of 2002 into focus. The liberal 9th decided that the High Court’s ruling that juries, not judges, must decide between life and…
Right after the little light had gone off in 40 million refrigerators in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, there were earnest assurances. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg assured his city and the world early and often on Thursday that…
The stills are passé, now. The videotape is in and on the air. Soon we may be able to rent it at Blockbuster, maybe even buy it on DVD. You must agree that the tape material puts them in a…
