One thing you can rely upon: Keith Olbermann's tenure will end, sooner rather than later, and it will end badly. One can only account for this pattern, as Scanner has, in personal terms. Olbermann is a piece of work whose passion, intellectual, political and otherwise, will not remain forever harness… Read full post »

Lats night's game made me very happy. Because SF won? Well I confess I like the idea of an august old franchise like the Giants fielding a team filled with potheads (Lincecum), American League rejects (Uribe, Burrel, Huff), the former leader of the Beach Boys, who is now sporting a fake,&nb… Read full post »

I am proud to say my wife Joanne is  Award Winning Finalist in The National Best Books Awards 2010 for her co-authored book, The Practiced Business Writer. A tremendous achievement, particularly since it is her first book. Congratulations Joanne! Read full post »

Fay Paxton has tried to defend her want of backbone by the right to do as she wishes with her "own blog." But of course noone disputes Fay's right to be cowardly, only that it is not right to be cowardly. In the spirit of the "right to one's own blog" and because I… Read full post »

Fay Paxton recently posted a blog on the wonders of Obama and the wrongheadedness of Progressives who would criticize him or even worse fail to support him. Not surprisingly, given the almost cliched democratic party liberalism the post enunciated, the editors picked it for the cover, where it has ru… Read full post »

Only one team could have dethroned the Yankees from  their perch as the biggest disappointments oof 2010. And they just did.

The Phillies were by all accounts, including my own, this year's best team. They had the three aces (though hamels was always a stretch), they had a dangerpous middle of… Read full post »

Only one team could have dethroned the Yankees from  their perch as the biggest disappointments oof 2010. And they just did.

The Phillies were by all accounts, including my own, this year's best team. They had the three aces (though hamels was always a stretch), they had a dangerpous middle of… Read full post »

The Yankees just won their second game of the series, and their second game against the Rangers nunber two starter C.J. Wilson. If anyone had said before the series that the Yankees would beat Wilson twice, everyone in the room would have assumed they would win the series easily. Stipulating that… Read full post »

According to Justin Elliot, the recent report of the CIVC indicates that somewhere between 800-1250 innocent civilians have been slain by U. S. drones in Pakistan. For those of you keeping score, the count is now up to roughly 35% of the death count on 9/11, and the grim meter is… Read full post »

According to Justin Elliot, the recent report of the CIVC indicates that somewhere between 800-1250 innocent civilians have been slain by U. S. drones in Pakistan. For those of you keeping score, the count is now up to roughly 35% of the death count on 9/11, and the grim meter is… Read full post »

I am a hard core Yankee fan, a believer in the necessity of sports dynasties for the health of their respective games, and I judge George M. Steinbrenner,  without apologies, from that perspective.

I give Steinbrenner enormous credit for being just what he seemed not to be-- educable. After… Read full post »

Cito Gaston left his starter in an inning too long and the Jays wound up blowing another game in the ninth inning to the Rays.  The Orioles got clubbed by the Yankees again, and it is beginning to look like their sterling Matt Weiters may never be able to hit big… Read full post »

Those Salonites (like Anne Nichols and Cranky Cuss) who have recently

a) denounced the emergent school policy of zero tolerance for bullying as too rigid, or

b) rather stupidly suggested that the bullied either had it coming, by reason of their annoyingly non-normative behavior, or needed to learn t… Read full post »

I had to update and augment since I originally left off what was one of my three greatest textual influences.

1. Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio

2. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley

3.  The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

4. The Bible by various hands… Read full post »

OS has hit a new low by placing what is in effect an apologia for bullying on its cover.

 Now I'm sure the author of said post would not admit that an apologia for bullying was what she composed.  She would say she was mounting a case (she is a lawyer)… Read full post »

Undefeated all of last season, on the way to a national championship, undefeated again this season as the tournament approaches, the w9omen's basketball team at the U. of  Connecticut is fashioning a legacy that is all but unmatched in the history of NCAA sports. The only teams that compare at t… Read full post »

The Big Bang Theory, a popular sitcom about the lives, loves and excruciating embarrassments of a quartet of science nerds, has come to center increasingly upon the comic foibles of one Sheldon, arguably the brightest of the group and inarguably its most socially challenged.  As Sheldon has more… Read full post »

We all love lists. Here's one that involves all quarterbacks who played sometime during the period between 1966 and 2010, even if their reputation and hence their ranking depended on performances in previous years (e. Unitas, Jurgensen, Meredith etc.). I found it really hard to rank them, but I didn'… Read full post »

We all love lists. Here's one that involves all quarterbacks who played sometime during the period between 1966 and 2010, even if their reputation and hence their ranking depended on performances in previous years (e. Unitas, Jurgensen, Meredith etc.)

 1. Joe Montana

Four rings, no losses in the… Read full post »

Jack Murtha, the 1st Vietnam vet elected to Congress and a key congressional force in  turning opinion against Bush's Iraq folly has died today. He will be remembered as a sometimes ethically challenged old school politician of the kind often produced outside the metropolitan centers of Philadel… Read full post »

As a candidate, Obama insisted that any health care reform would require a public option to contain insurance costs. As we all know, he has not only broken this promise, abandoned this position, but has done so in a particularly mendacious fashion--by abandoning the legislative body that supported hi… Read full post »