60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley succumbed to leukemia today. He was 65. I don’t have much use for most mainstream media news personalities, but Ed Bradley was an exception. He was easily my favorite 60 Minutes personality since Harry Reasoner. He was tough, fair, personable, wicked smart, and Columbo smooth at drawing his subjects out. … Read more
I have eight components in my living room that are remotely controlled. So, a universal remote is in order. I want a highly customizable unit–either learning, programmable for specific models, or both–because the punch-in-the-brand-code routine of the preprogrammed ones is never perfect, and I insist on perfect for this. I had a Xantech learning unit … Read more
Good for the Democrats. Perhaps they’ll show some vision with their victory. ‘Course, Congress and Bush doing nothing but bickering for the next two years doesn’t sound so bad either. These results might have upset me several years ago, and I’d have had a lot to say about the effects, the successful and failed strategies, … Read more