A review of 2012 found reality television continuing to consume the medium like typhoid. Or, more appropriately, like mononucleosis ravaging a freshman dorm. You might call it all flotsam — but I’m here to report that one reality show truly proved instructive. I speak of “The Really Biggest Loser.”…
Barely attentive to anything that would prevent such horrors — Newtown, Aurora, Tucson — we are entranced by the gripping accounts and vigils and memorial services afterward. We reflect on compelling examples of courage and calm like the teacher who herded her students into the closet and occupied them with Crayons and paper as…
Until now, the last clear mandate coming out of a presidential election was in 1932 when voters demanded of Roosevelt: End this Depression. And make it rain while you’re at it. Notice I said “until now,” and that should raise eyebrows. In this divided, divisive political landscape, how could anyone attach a…
This is brilliant. And to think it came from the folks who made the mess in the first place. The mess is the buying of our government. I can’t believe that Republicans in Texas and Florida have come up with the solution. That solution: urine samples. This may take some explaining, because…