NFL teams are experiencing much the same difficulty as AIG and other Wall Street titans, namely: Who’s in charge? And whose fault is this? The Washington Redskins are the epitome. After a mediocre season beginning, they have decided to remove…
It’s not too late. A 4.6 million dollar bid for the crypt above that of Marilyn Monroe’s at Westwood Cemetery has fallen through. Hence, bidding will begin anew. The chance to spend eternity on top of Miss Monroe is expected…
Now Chicago knows how Letterman’s staff feels.
I see by the papers they are going to drain Sloan’s Lake. You don’t know Sloan’s Lake? Not many do. It’s in Cheyenne, Wyoming, not far from the airport in a place called Lion’s Park. Sloan’s is, or used to…
From the torn bowels of Manhattan there issued a thundering scream of pain and schock, repeated at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania. The sounds of September 11, 2001. They echoed through the afternoon and night. But for…
There may be 35.6 million Americans with knives in their pockets and thousands may be illegal, according to the U.S. Customs. Thereby hangs a story that is going virtually unreported by a media fixated on the hubbub health care has…
I heard Uncle Pundit pull into the driveway and raced out to see his new car, the one he’d bought by turning in his clunker. “Surprise!” He was still in his old clunker! “What happened?” I asked. Uncle Pundit turned…
I could tell Uncle Pundit was on one of his “make things right again” kicks. “Doesn’t have to be everywhere,” he was saying. “Not in rough neighborhoods, Southeast D.C. for example. But in University towns like Princeton and Cambridge. Police…
NASA, and Neil Armstrong himself, have at last given up trying to gloss over the most famous flub of a line yet uttered by man. As he stepped on the moon from the LEM forty years ago, Armstrong said, with…