The victory balloons still had air in them at many Republican campaign celebrations last week when Ben Bernanke and his colleagues on the Federal Reserve Board let loose with a heavy spray of cold water on all those candidates who have vowed to keep government spending under control.             In one fell swoop, the […]

            “And they’re going crazy; they’re going crazy!”                                               -New York Giants’ announcer Russ Hodges, calling the 1951 “shot heard ‘round the world.”             By beating the Texas Rangers convincingly in five games, the San Francisco Giants put an exclamation mark on a baseball season that can best be described as the year the underdogs came […]

            Christine O’Donnell is not a witch.  She may have been one in another stage of her life, but she isn’t one now.  No, she’s “you,” as she brazenly declared in a crazy campaign ad that attempted to refute a clip from an old “Politically Incorrect” TV show that Bill Maher (the host of that […]

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            In his 1987 film, “Radio Days,” Woody Allen weaves in a small story that really has nothing to do with the movie’s plot, such as it is.  Over twenty years later, that small story results in the one scene from the film that is truly memorable.              The film itself is Allen’s homage to […]