Jerry Seinfeld has a joke about how men watch TV, remotes at the ready: "Men don't care what's on TV. Men only care what ELSE is on TV."
That observation rings in my head as I recount spending a week keeping a diary as a "Nielsen Family" during May sweeps....
(21) Comments | Posted April 4, 2012 | 3:23 PM
There are plenty of blogs where parents share their wit and wisdom. I don't possess much of that, so don't look for it here. But if you want to smile, this might be the place. And it won't start with me, but my 8-year-old...
(1) Comments | Posted June 13, 2011 | 5:57 PM
As a baby boomer, I recall the 70s as the era of recognition. It was a time when most of us recognized our country as imperfect, and vowed to make it better when we took the reins. Well, the oldest boomers are now retiring and the bulk of government...
(34) Comments | Posted February 21, 2011 | 3:00 PM
You can see it happening again. Like Sisyphus struggling to push that giant boulder up the hill, the hard work of Congress cutting spending isn't going well. The effort by House Republicans to cut $61 billion in outlays is far short of their original promise to cut $100 billion...
(9) Comments | Posted December 13, 2010 | 10:52 AM
When I wrote my piece on HuffingtonPost last week about losing a job, I never imagined it would get the response it did. I was leery about portraying myself as someone who got fired -- I don't want to be known as the "guy who lost his job"! -- but...
(323) Comments | Posted December 7, 2010 | 8:20 PM
I lost my job last Friday. I am one of the white collar casualties of a struggling economy and changing industry (television) -- and let's be frank -- managers looking for a scapegoat to save their own jobs.
"Why?" I asked.
"Ah, it's just the...
(187) Comments | Posted August 20, 2010 | 4:14 PM
After spending time in Iraq in June of 2003 as a correspondent for Fox News Channel, there was a story I couldn't tell when I got back home. With our combat troops now out of the country, I'm sure it's safe to share now.
One afternoon, after...
(37) Comments | Posted May 10, 2010 | 4:42 PM
First of all, it wasn't just Nashville. There were 52 counties in Tennessee that the national media ignored in the early days of a storm with no name, and that doesn't include the parts of Kentucky that also suffered from the Flood of 2010.
It wasn't just a typical...
(4) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 6:14 PM