“Talent on loan from God.” Talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh succumbed to his lung cancer this morning. He was 70 years old. The impact that Rush had on (particularly AM) radio is impossible to overstate. He’s also an excellent manifestation of what I often say about Garry Kasparov: I don’t know whether he’s the best … Read more
Hasn’t exactly been a Snowpocalypse, but it did snow all day today (and nobody was calling that as late as 8 pm last night). It’s still snowing as I type, actually. Much of our area got freezing rain yesterday. Best I can tell, we only got a bit early yesterday morning, and then it was … Read more
I miss RadioShack in a lot of the same ways I miss Sears. There was just something comfortingly familiar and—well, old-fashioned is too strong a term, but maybe traditional works—about the experience. Of course, it wasn’t a frontline destination if you were shopping for a high-end sound system or computer. But they were often the … Read more