TweetFor some time now I’ve been hearing about how McDonald’s is trying to go head-to-head with my beloved Starbucks (which still doesn’t advertise on my blog) with high-quality coffee. But I’d never tried it to assess the threat. Well, at lunch it occurred to me that I could get coffee instead of a soda with […]
TweetThe same week last March that Robert Ariail and I were packing up our stuff to depart The State, another editorial cartoonist was doing the same back at the very first paper I ever worked for — the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Robert and I heard about Bill Day being laid off at the time, […]
TweetFYI, you know how I’ve been meaning to start taking ads on the blog, and just haven’t gotten around to it? Well, this inquiry I got at the end of last week has me scrambling to go ahead and make that happen: Hello! I may have an advertiser for your blog. Are you accepting ads? […]
Tweet Proud husband Samuel Tenenbaum e-mailed me this link yesterday while I was driving back from Memphis after the funeral. I share it with y’all just as an update on what Inez is up to. Her work was touted on the White House blog, which included the above video…
TweetAnd now, for the silliest idea I’ve heard of since Memphis built the Pyramid, we have this: Husband for Lady Liberty proposed Group says huge statue a perfect fit for Patriots Point By John McDermott The Post and Courier Wednesday, January 20, 2010 An Atlanta group floated a jaw-dropping idea for Patriots Point on Tuesday, […]
Tweet My wife and I stopped at Shoney’s for breakfast on our way out of Memphis Saturday morning, and I picked up a Commercial Appeal to read while eating, which is how I learned that John S. Wilder, who had been lieutenant governor back when I covered Tennessee politics in the 70s and 80s, had […]
Tweet As you may or may not know, I am not one of your superfans of Gamecock football. Blame it on trauma inflicted over time by the hordes of fans, getting in my way. The bane of my existence for many years — particularly that year I had Saturday duty back in the late 80s […]
TweetIf you read The Wall Street Journal, as I do, you have to take some bad with the good. The good includes some of the best writing in print journalism (still), with something fascinating on pretty much every page of the paper. The bad includes putting up with the drip, drip, drip of op-ed columnist […]
TweetA warning: Some of you will find this disturbing, or at least inappropriate for this forum. That was the reaction I got the last time I shared a dream — a long, rambling thing in which I ran for governor, back in 2006. Since then I’ve sort of held back on the workings of my […]
Tweet A little while ago I posted something on Twitter about a periodic peeve of mine: Yo, Starbucks: A separate queue for us actual coffee drinkers would still be a great idea… Truth be told, I have been to a Starbucks that does have a separate queue for straight coffee drinkers (by which I don’t […]
Tweet No, that’s not the name of my band that I’m going to form once I come up with a new name, although I think I might put it on the short list… This is just me free-associating from one post to the next. Back on this one, I said something about how some politicians […]
TweetOnly once did I ever work in an office with another “Brad.” At the time, I joked that he would have to go, because it was too confusing, and eventually, he did. That was over 20 years ago. I’ve never met a person named Warthen to whom I was not related. Oh, I’ll occasionally run […]
Tweet After the long drive yesterday, we sat down to watch “Frost/Nixon.” Tired as I was, I doubted I’d make it all the way through, but it was riveting. Michael Sheen seems to have quite a career going playing real-life figures from recent history (he’s known for his portrayals of Tony Blair in both “The […]
TweetDoes Mark Sanford fully appreciate what Michael Jackson has done for him? I doubt it. Of course, national interest in our gov was waning yesterday afternoon anyway. Lachlan Cartwright, who spent the day chasing around Sullivan’s Island yesterday for the New York Post, told me that right after the governor came out of the house […]
Tweet In case you missed the show today, here’s everything you need to catch up and be like the cool kids. First, we have a photo above taken by my favorite “pollster,” Emerson Smith. It shows me with Michael Feldman (that’s Michael in the garnet “Cocks” shirt). That’s bassist Jeff Hamann hanging his head in […]
Tweet By BRAD WARTHEN Editorial Page Editor REMEMBER “The Dick Van Dyke Show”? For you younger folks, it was about a guy named Rob Petrie, the head writer for a fictional variety show (and if you’re too young to know what a “variety show” is, go look it up) called “The Alan Brady Show.” There […]
TweetYou know about all the budget cuts that have hit USC and other state institutions, but I was just talking to Caroline Whitson, president of Columbia College, and trying to operation a private college is no bed of roses these days, either. She had called me earlier in the day, and I got her back […]
TweetA week or two ago I noticed something in The Wall Street Journal that gave me a start. Then this morning, I saw something else in that same publication that took things to a whole new level of seeming impossibility, prompting me to write this e-mail this morning to one Ben Worthen: Just recently noticed […]
TweetJust a few minutes ago, I was reading a piece at the WSJ site that attempts to get a handle on how retail sales went across the country on Black Friday, and over the weekend. (Short version: Better than expected, but a lot of that was the loss-leader items on Friday, and once folks bought […]
TweetSo last night, I read all about this cool thing the TV folks are using at the Olympics. The WSJ had a half-page story explaining how a clever, but simple, device called the DiveCam enables viewers in their homes to see the following: On TV, a diver walks out onto a platform. The camera fixes […]