As an entertaining variety show, this year’s Academy Awards telecast (last Sunday on ABC) was heavy on music and included a fair number of humorous quips, lots of glamour (especially in the dresses many of the female presenters wore), and a few moments, here and there, of snippets from actual movies.  The end result was […]

Brian Williams may never deliver the evening news on NBC or any other network again.  If so, he’ll go down as a major figure in American journalism who “misremembered” himself into oblivion. As the dust settles around Mr. Williams’s six month suspension from his position as chief news anchor for NBC’s nightly news broadcasts, many […]

The drive home from my gym every day requires me to take a left turn from a main thoroughfare (Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael) to a residential street that leads to my house.  In making that turn, I am often waiting for on-coming traffic (moving from west to east) to pass.  Those cars often whip […]

Is there anything better than witnessing a great sporting event that features an uncertain outcome until the last play?  Such was the case with last fall’s seventh game of the World Series, in which the game and the World Championship could have been claimed by either San Francisco or Kansas City until the final pitch […]