Here’s my latest SJ-R column. I think you have to be registered with the site to access it.
This will probably be my last post until after the Fourth. The Blogging Oversight Committee (BOC) has ruled that I must attend a week of sensitivity training for allowing the comments’ section to degenerate into a house of […]

Regular readers to this blog may have noticed that the weekly “From the Treadmill” feature that normally ran once or twice a month has not appeared in some time. No one has complained about its absence or anything, but an explanation is still in order.

For the past two years I’ve conducted my […]

I must speak briefly in defense of the World Cup.
There seems to be an anti-soccer bias among sports media types who feel the need to mock what they don’t understand. There must be something in the bylaws of the various sportswriters and sportscasters associations of North America that says that all commentary on fütbol […]

I was fortunate enough to have another column published in the State Journal-Register. Once again, thank you to the SJ-R for giving an unknown blogger a chance. And thanks to everyone who emailed me or posted comments to the online edition of the column .
In the article, I reference a comment that Governor Blagojevich made, […]

As expected, Margaret Boswell’s caustic review of the Springfield Muni’s production of Annie Warbucks resulted in a counter volley from the show’s supporters in the SJ-R’s letters-to-the-editor section (although surprisingly, only one comment appears in the online edition.) Also as expected, Boswell is subject to the usual critiques leveled at critics, i.e:

She obviously didn’t see […]