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‘For $200, Alex, I’ll take Political Obscenities. Ummm… What is Obamacare?’
She called herself “The Maid of Shalom,” or sometimes she signed as ”The Perfect Woman.” I remember those handwritten letters well, because they were loaded like hand-grenades with the most creative and colorful threats.
The one I remember best said she would visit my home while I was sleeping and castrate me with a dull, rusty knife. Yikes.
And then there was the time I...
The Empowerment Zone stands for EZ money? That’s not news
Lots of readers probably saw that Sunday story in the Enquirer about $25 million wasted by the Cincinnati Empowerment Zone and thought: “Here we go again. Yet another textbook case of government malpractice.”
But really, it’s worse than that. It’s also a textbook case of race hustling, politically correct cowardice and newspaper negligence.
In fact, finding out that the Empowerment...
2009: 10 more reasons to distrust the media
"Experience? We don't need no stinking experience."
At this time of year, between Christmas and New Year’s, the newsroom was usually about as empty as a church on Monday. So we would pass around those lists and vote on the Biggest Stories of the Year.
As the token conservative, I always thought the lists themselves were a bit tipsy with Liberal White Lighting. Such as: No. 3...
Would you buy stock in Cincinnati?
City Hall -- ticker symbol BCC for Blue Chip City
Here’s my column from the December issue of Cincy Magazine:
If Cincinnati City Hall were a book, it would be a Raymond Chandler mystery, populated by hard-eyed fat men in tweed topcoats and fedoras, chomping cigars, sneaking sips from silver hip flasks while they wait outside the office of Boss Cox.
If it were a painting, it would...
Go Bearcats!
Maybe the most exciting game in college football this year.
Maybe a chance to play in the national championship.
Maybe the best halftime adjustments by the coaching staff.
Maybe one of the greatest comebacks against adversity by any team this year in a game with more pressure than a junkyard car crusher.
And certainly one of the greatest days in Cincinnati sports history.
Those Bearcats were...
Cincinnati’s new superhero is… Mike Brown?
This is how Cincinnati pictured Bengals owner Mike Brown last year, and the year before that, and the year before that…
The Montgomery Burns of Cincinnati
And this is how Cincinnati should see him now that the Bengals are making lunch-meat out of all the other animals in the NFL zoo:
Professor X, mastermind of the X-Men
Think about it. If the Bengals were limping through another season like...
Farewell to a friend, Jim Knippenberg
Enquirer columnist Jim Knippenberg
I don’t know what he was like in high school, but in the newsroom at the Enquirer, Jim Knippenberg was the kid in the back of the class, passing notes, whispering jokes and tossing newsprint spitballs at the old Gray Lady of Vine Street.
I always got the impression that he was happiest when he could grab well-mannered Cincinnati by its silk-stockinged leg...
