Archive - 2009 - Blog entry

Under normal circumstances, reaction to a situation like this would be rather uniform: A 44-year-old man has sex with a 13-year-old girl, allegedly after plying her with champagne and drugs.

So Sarah Palin has gone rogue. At least that's what the title of her book suggests. Or so I'm told. I haven't read it and don't plan to.

By now you surely know of the controversy surrounding President Obama's speech Tuesday to school kids across the country.

It can't have happened. Not 32 days after we lost Walter Cronkite.

Over the weekend President Barack Obama started doing something I've been saying for a couple of weeks he should have done in the first place.

The text from my friend Joel arrived at 8:36 last night.

Sarah Palin officially quit her job as Alaska Governor yesterday.

It's been 233 years since that sweltering Philadelphia June when Thomas Jefferson sequestered himself in a small apartment a few blocks west along Market Street from the Pennsylvania State House.

I guess it's time to update the ol' resume again.

You thought it would never happen. You thought there was no way there would ever be a smoking ban along Tobacco Road. Well, it happened.

A little joke has been floating around the news business for a while now: If newspapers go out of business, where will TV and radio stations get their story ideas?

I lost a great deal of respect for Sen. Arlen Specter yesterday. No. Scratch that. I lost all respect for Specter yesterday.