Out of the Newsroom

One of my true guilty pleasures is the “Raw Dog” comedy channel on SiriusXM radio. It’s guilty because paying for radio in my car just seems like such an extravagance these days, and pleasure because the uncensored rants of great stand up comedians makes me laugh out loud.
Often I really need the laugh.
So I [...]

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Just ten days after saying goodbye to the hapless Charlie Weis, the University of Notre Dame will formally announce tomorrow that it has hired Brian Kelly from the University of Cincinnati to be the new head football coach of the Fighting Irish.
Good for you, ND. Here’s hoping that decision works out better than the [...]

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I’ve always loved the movie “Groundhog Day”. Not just because of Bill Murray, who always makes me laugh, but because the premise of repeating the same day over and over just appeals to me.
Of course we get a little real-life taste of the idea each year when we “fall back” from daylight saving time [...]

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This Sunday morning brought a phone call from a friend for some help setting up a new wireless router in her house. I really don’t mind these kind of calls from friends–except for the amount of time spent saying that it really is no trouble and please don’t think that if I say it [...]

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Is it just me, or with each day that passes does it seem more and more like the only way that the now mythic 700 Billion dollar bailout (also known in some circles as the greatest game of 3 Card Monte ever played by a Secretary of the Treasury)–the only way it will ever reach [...]

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In the post election day hangover of emotions, the euphoria of hope gives way to the soberness of what change can really be accomplished against the backdrop of what is going on here in the real world, the inevitable cold shower stings a bit as it hits our faces.
A Sunday morning of reading the papers [...]

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