OK. So I put it off for a few more years than I should have. It’s done now. A five or six foot tube was put deep into my colon with a doctor looking in the other end to admire the beauty of my digestive track. How you decide this as your specialty in…
As we sit and wait for the next school shooting to take place I began to think about the other causes of these massacres. It easy to blame guns, video games, mental illness and drugs . There’s a bigger issue with school funding. The abuse of state lottery revenues.
On the night of the shootings at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School, I was watching the opinion shows on the various news channels. One of the shows I watched was Hardball on MSNBC. Chris Matthews had done this show many times before. I wouldn’t be surprised if scripts were reused from previous “school shooting shows.” As expected, the zombies began appearing, the zombies that occupy the Washington swamp – the politicians.
You will live a lifetime during a dog’s life. Since a dog’s life span doesn’t match that of ours, it must be nature’s way of making sure we understand how precious each day of our human life is. 15 years is a long time even for humans. In that time a person transforms. By the time…
You either watched it live on CBS, were there or you saw and read about the rowdy Steelers-Bengals NFL Wildcard Playoff game later. The sad thing is Cincinnati, the well-mannered “northern most southern city” in America, showed its seamy underbelly to the nation this past weekend. Yes, we can debate the two thug dumbasses who…
The wife and I just subscribed to Netflix. We’re a little late to the party on this one. We just finished watching the third season of House of Cards. My wife is sort of Claire to my Francis without the bisexual threesome with the Secret Service Agent (a MMF for those familiar in those sorts…
Days before Jim Scott announced his retirement my telephone rang. On the other end of the telephone was that friendly and commanding voice. “Darryl! It’s Jim Scott!” That’s the way his calls always began. He called to tell me he was retiring and wanted me to know before I found out through others. We spoke…
We find ourselves living through another crisis to America’s confidence. “Deflate-gate.” Listening to sports talk radio the past week I was struck by the faux outrage of poorly prepared talk hosts and their disbelief that an NFL head coach and quarterback may have cheated. Shockingly stretching the rules to gain a unfair advantage. With billions…
There was a regular caller on 700WLW back in the day, so regular we created a jingle for him: “He hates blacks. He hates Jews. Here come some more of his Aryan views. It’s Ken!” Ken reads this blog and while I don’t agree with the majority of his views (few would), I respect him…
Sometime in late 2005 or early 2006, I held a staff meeting with the programming staff at 700WLW in Cincinnati. The purpose was to start laying out longterm plans for what radio, talk radio and media would be 10 years in the future. The first iPhone hadn’t been sold yet, YouTube had only been live…
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