Several years before NBC landed on the idea to try to make the onetime criminal/Crips associate/rapper Snoop Dogg synonymous with the Olympics — a desperate attempt to lure viewers who didn’t much care for the Olympics as an athletic competition — “The Si... See more
Yet again I find myself stuck at the corner of Easy Populist Pandering and The Truth — at least my version. I could simply ignore the latter — it wouldn’t reduce my pay — but that’s not what I do because I can’t help myself. So here goes: For years, I’ve ... See more
Once again, we’re left to remind the double-dealers, race hustlers and the ignorantly wishful that the successful pursuit of equality is a fool’s mission if one chooses inequality as their path. And, outside of The Rev. Al Sharpton’s amen-reliant but dimi... See more
As folks in the one-to-one service business will tell you, those customers who customarily complain a lot will begin with, “You know I’m not one to complain but …” Well, I’m in the me-to-you service industry and I am one to complain. Shoot, I’d estimate t... See more
See Also equal time These are the greedy bosses who knew gambling would ruin sports — and cashed in anyway
On nights that don’t necessarily include Halloween, Tom Waits has written boozy, flop-house encrusted prose and sung lousy-luck laments about such p... See more
