American Life
Obesity Epidemic? CDC method seems rather expansive itself!
Published on July 28, 2009
“Normal” weight, like personal wealth, lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Where The Buffalo Roam: Software executive Jeff Hawn in trouble for bison killings
Published on September 16, 2008
Attachmate’s executive Jeff Hawn will have his day in court to defend his claim that buffalo don’t belong on his property.
Clowns & Harlots: My Missionary Position
Published on August 25, 2008
Our niece and a group from her church were going to Bangkok to bring the good news. Since they don’t speak Thai, they were going to use other methods— Christian Lite Rock, mime and Amy Grant tapes. Weapons of mass destruction!
Random House pulls Sherry Jones’ “Jewel of Medina”: Corporate cowardice or clever marketing ploy?
Published on August 8, 2008
Is Random House’s dropping of Shirley Jones’ novel Jewel of Medina merely a display of the Western media’s overall spinelessness? Or a clever marketing ploy?
Clowns and Harlots: Safe at Home
Published on July 31, 2008
The sky is falling. I don’t know whether the sky is falling but I also don’t know anyone who is not a bit alarmed about the state of the union. To pretend otherwise seems to me to be a bit foolish. Americans are said to be nervous now and they are staying close to home. So I am going home to Maine. And listen to my kinsmen and friends complain about tourists.
Tim Russert: Written on water
Published on June 23, 2008
I am sure Tim Russert was a fine fellow, father, husband, son, etc. But he was in the end not as significant as his sendoff implies.
Cost of Education: No time like the present to evaluate cost and benefits
Published on April 16, 2008
Blogger’s Note: The national credit crunch and decreases in federal subsidies are putting an increasing number of student lenders out of business. It couldn’t come at a worse time for parents of the Echo Boom generation… kids born around 1990 and later who are pushing out of high school and into colleges.Try getting that second [...]
Wal-Mart: And the Lord said, “How May I Help You?”
Published on April 15, 2008
Baltimore — (TFN): I do not have a deeply spiritual life but sometimes I begin to wonder if there might not indeed be a deity and if the hand of the Almighty might not move on occasion across the land smiting the wicked. I believe that we have seen this of late in the case [...]
William F. Buckley Jr.: Man and Showman
Published on March 19, 2008
When he came on the scene in the 1950s, the conservative in America was not far removed from the swamp and the lynch mob. Fire-breathing Christians roamed the land. The earth was, indeed, flat. Here be dragons. Buckley made the yahoo and the simpleton swell with pride. Half a century later the conservative movement is back where it started. – Christopher Corbett
by Christopher Corbett
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Clowns and Harlots: Best foot forward
Published on February 13, 2008
by Christopher Corbett
Baltimore — (TFN): The American Podiatric Medical Association says that the demand for foot doctors is about to surge over the next six years. This came as quite a surprise to me as I can’t say that I keep up with the noble science of foot doctoring. But I read the alarm they [...]
Christopher Corbett’s Clowns & Harlots: A Zoo Story
Published on January 28, 2008
“I think the country would be best served if the zoos were closed. Shut them all down. They are expensive, archaic and – no pun intended – bestial. They speak to a time when man was even more primitive than he is today (if such a thing is possible).” — Christopher Corbett
By Christopher Corbett, [...]
Punk’d: How Norma Jean disrupted Amberger’s Smackdown
Published on January 2, 2008
Baltimore — (TFN): It’s not every day that you turn 44. Accordingly, TFN anchors Krista Das and Laura Cadden set out to make it a memorable event for J. Christoph Amberger. While he is taping his weekly Smackdown, the light goes on and the studio doors open…
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Seasonal Cyclicality: From Santa Claus Rally to January Effect
Published on December 25, 2007
"Groundhog Season culminates in Christmas, which is the really the one day of the year when you don’t mind that you’ve done it all before exactly alike. And it finds its resounding finish on New Year’s Eve." — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): Bill Murray is an actor I don’t care [...]
Happy Holidays: Groundhog Season
Published on December 25, 2007
Baltimore — (TFN): December triggers a series of cyclical events that have played out year after year in exactly the same fashion. TFN president J. Christoph Amberger comments on a series of predictable events that are shaping what he calls Groundhog Season.
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American Life: Season’s Greetings
Published on December 18, 2007
"The Christmas letter is a parvenu's marathon of boorish boasting, shameless name-dropping, wild exaggeration, social climbing, fabrication, falsification, and spin doctoring." — Christopher Corbett
by Christopher Corbett
Baltimore — (TFN): You really know that the season of counting your blessings has arrived when the first Christmas letter lands in your mailbox. These annual missives once were [...]
American Media: Putting the “King” into Larry King Live
Published on November 26, 2007
“Larry King is the master of infotainment. He is the Walter Cronkite of infotainment. And that is a pretty scary thought. He looks old. He looks like a mortician does his makeup. Hell, the man has been on the air for more than half a century and been married seven times! But the man still [...]
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