Over the years, I鈥檝e aspired to do many things. I鈥檝e failed at many of them. I鈥檝e conveniently forgotten the rest. That鈥檚 what makes me so well-adjusted (for the most part). I can reach back over the years and sift through those aspects of my life that didn鈥檛 go the way I planned ...
It鈥檚 that season again. The nation鈥檚, no, the world鈥檚 notables are fanning out around the globe 鈥� dispensing their wisdom at learning institutions with their personally crafted commencement speeches. I haven鈥檛 paid much attention to any commencement speech since June 1, 1966 鈥� the ...
Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...
We were all warned. On Jan. 21, 2017, brand new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stood before the assembled world media and told a magnificent whopper about the previous day鈥檚 presidential goings-on. He boasted that it had been the 鈥渓argest audience to ever witness an ...
The Smartless podcast recently hosted two former Democratic presidents of the United States - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - along with President Joe Biden The hour-long program with the three presidents was not a hard hitting affair. The podcast hosts, actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and ...
Occasionally, I find myself engaging in nostalgia. In the past, I鈥檝e written about the joys of penny candy; the pleasures of those Saturday afternoon-long kiddy shows down at the State Theatre in Uniontown; and those seemingly endless summer days playing up there on East End ...
