Now that I have your attention – this isn’t really about Mike Tyson.It’s about something he once said.He was training for an upcoming fight when, as the story goes, a reporter asked him about his opponent’s plan to beat him.Tyson responded, “Everybody 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’m 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’s 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’s become the American way.Kanye West, that renowned rapper, who’s changed his name to just “ye,” knows how to generate headlines.Recently, a couple of ...
Barring an appearance by the now-subpoenaed Donald Trump, the House Jan. 6 hearings are over, and what have we learned? Nothing at all, at least from the viewpoint of Trump’s most rabid followers. Like the former president himself, they deny the validity of the Jan. 6 riot.The Capitol was ...
