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Monthly Archives: December 2009

OTM Highlights 12/4 – Confronting Jealousy, Head On

It’s a Bob-only recap with a bullet, because bullet points make things easier to read. At least, that’s what upper management says. So, here goes: – The president makes speeches and hardly anyone listens, save for the media, proving that whole Fireside Chat thing wrong. According to the awesomely named political scientist George Edwards III, [...]

Reasons to love Monkey See

Both of these are in/associated with one post at the “Monkey See” pop culture blog at NPR.org: This picture from the NPR homepage: And for one particular reason given why he’s wearing said shirt: “Back of shirt says, in masking tape, ‘DID NOT PUT ME ON THE LIST OF 50 MOST IMPORTANT RECORDINGS OF THE [...]

Throwing a Going Away Party for Carl Kassel

Like many Americans, I wake up with Carl Kassel every morning. Which sounds dirty. He’s always on my radio, the first coherent voice of the day, reminding me that it’s now 8 a.m. and I need to speed up the getting ready for work process. Alas,  Carl, my elderly voice of reason, is finally calling [...]