I was traveling again yesterday and scrambled late to make this happen. Take it easy on me. As a tribute to Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC on Friday, I thought I would do a “Worst Person in the World” segment, the recurring feature on Olbermann’s show, which identified three individuals of increasing worseness (Worse, Worser, […]
Category: cultural events
.406
That’s what Ted Williams hit in 1941, the last time someone hit over .400 in Major League Baseball. Ted Williams is also the name of the recently discovered homeless man with the golden radio voice, subsequently celebritized and made numerous job offers, including with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Days into his foisted upon fame, he had […]
Two Girls and Two Boys
Regarding the Arizona tragedy outside a Safeway grocer. Loughner. Roll. Giffords. Green. At least 15 others. What separates us? The shooter and the shot. Green was born on September 11, 2001, bookended by tragedy. In the middle, she apparently just lived an awesome life. May Loughner find reconciliation and justice. And, may we find […]
MONDAY CONFIDENTIAL
This post will self-destruct unless you quickly and repeatedly press play. Commentary on recent classified document dump by Wikileaks of nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents, which may or may not include evidence of war crimes, torture in secret prisons, significant civilian casualties, and even limited caches of WMDs. Themes include substantial controversy over the propriety […]
Whistle Workin’
Commentary on recent rescue of 33 Chilean mine workers. Themes include emotional tragedy of the event, commercialization of personal loss, and mistreatment of working class. Performed by ipoet. Music produced by Harry Krum Today’s audio here: [wpaudio url=”http://sintaxtheterrific.com/mp3s/work_whistling.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Whistle Workin’“]
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