ESPN fired college sportscaster Ron Franklin today, terminating his 24-year-long relationship with the network. The story is generally reported as colleague Jeannine Edwards offering a comment on an off-air conversation he was having, him saying something like “leave this to the boys, sweet baby,” her responding something like “I don’t appreciate you calling me that,” … Read more
I know you know the song—at least some of it, anyway, if you’re like me—but what do you know of its origins? I didn’t know much. Peggy Noonan’s piece is educational. New Year’s Eve feels a little more arbitrary to me every year. Any pressure to be doing something fabulous has been totally absent for … Read more
National Review Online has a good editorial up today on what seems to be First Lady Michelle Obama’s primary pet cause, which is combating childhood obesity through extensive federal regulation. As the editorial points out, Our Betters’ involvement in school lunches to this point has done just wonderful things for childhood obesity, such as heavily … Read more