In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...
Now that I have your attention 鈥� this isn鈥檛 really about Mike Tyson.It鈥檚 about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponent鈥檚 plan to beat him.Tyson responded, 鈥淓verybody has a plan until they get punched ...
John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...
As I recall, Halloween used to last for weeks.I鈥檓 74 years old. My memories of Halloween are about 65 years old. So, once again, to me, Halloween used to last for weeks.At my age, embellishment-laced nostalgia is oh, so soothing.Up there on Coolspring Street, we used to gather platoons of ...
Once upon a time, politics was a panoply of color, crowds, and, on occasion, good humor.Not today. Today鈥檚 politics is a grim, self-isolating business.The men and women running for high public office in the here and now are veiled by social media and TV ads from the eyeball-scrutiny of ...
Sadly, harsh language is becoming more and more commonplace.Intemperate outbursts can get you noticed. Apologies soon follow. That鈥檚 become the American way.Kanye West, that renowned rapper, who鈥檚 changed his name to just 鈥測e,鈥� knows how to generate headlines.Recently, a couple of ...
