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My hometown paper The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (why won’t they give me a job) endorsed Barack Obama (and John McCain) in the Sunday edition. I know both Clintons have been criss-crossing Missouri like mad, but so was Obama. He locked it up. And in the newspaper’s election poll it showed that Obama was competitive against…
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Barack Obama won South Carolina by a ridiculous margin. Oddly enough, after that win Bill Clinton was on my TV in my home state of Missouri, trying to kick his spinning game. But a win’s a win. And that win was a beat down. If there was a demographic, Obama killed on it. The only…
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I, for some strange reason, have been watching a lot of the pundits on CNN, CBS and MSNBC try to grapple with that thing called race in the South Carolina primary. And while they were, are, and will be wrong in many colorfully different ways, one way in which they were especially batshit was about…
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You know, I respect Michael Jordan’s skills as a baller. I respect his role as a sports icon, trend-setter, underwear pitchman, all-around man about Chicago. I understand that people desire Nike Air Jordans’. Collect them. Hell, back in the 80s and 90s, in the STL you could get shot for some Jordans’. But dude, Jordans’…
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Off of AP/Yahoo: “Clinton seeks to smooth relations with Obama“ How many times are we going to do this dance? The Clintons’ advance. The Clintons retreat. The Clintons’ advance. The Clintons’ retreat. Then you do the hokey-dokey and shenanigans fall out. It’s like the inauthenticity two-step out there. Just once I wish we lived in…
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The South Carolina Showdown: The Democratic primary in SC is tomorrow, and Obama’s busy doing the racial two-step while trying to keep a 9 point lead ahead of the Clintons. Obama is leading by more than a bit in the SC. Pundits say it’s because, depending on which pundit you ask, all, 60 percent or…
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For anyone who was curious about where my inspiration for the Ed Bradley Award for Journalistic Hotness came from, here is one of the funniest clips I saw on The Daily Show last year featuring “correspondent” Samantha Bee.
Live Your Best Life. 