It is a particularly American habit, this business of wanting to classify the best and worst of something. We are nation obsessed with st...

They say the worst thing you can have in live television is “dead air”. Suddenly in front of a room full of government and media dignitarie...

The following is a updated repost of  one of the first blog entries  in Oct.  2006.     ------------------------------------------------...

Wednesday October 7th, 1998 was a fairly ordinary day in Chicago. I was working for a small consulting firm in the near West suburb of Oa...

While living in Denmark, a well known American humorist and author once wrote that a common experience shared by many  American expats ...

(The following is an updated repost  of an entry from Sept. 11th, 2011) Tomorrow the media, and the blogosphere will undoubtedly be ful...

The Great and the Good is a phrase often used to describe those who assemble at occasions such as the official memorial service for the ...

Here’s an idea…. Leave Donald Trump alone. Don’t impeach him. Don’t indict him, don’t force him to resign. Leave him right where he i...

 This is not what I planned to be doing this week… I had intended to take a week or more off and unplug from social media, a much needed ...