There was much hubbub over at NBC this past week, what with Jay Leno’s last hurrah (sort of), and the impending promotion of Conan O’Brien to the big chair of late night talk.
Here at OMT, we’ve always been a Letterman fan, so this grand transition has little meaning for us. That big [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Weekend Perspectives
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tick … Tick … Tick … Tick …
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Morley Safer, longtime correspondent with CBS’s 41-year-old Sunday night institution, 60 Minutes, had some strong words to say recently about blogs and their impact on journalism.
Safer was giving a speech at Quinnipiac University after the college had presented him with the 2009 Fred Friendly First Amendment Award, when he said, “The blogosphere is no alternative, [...]
One Thing Leads to Another
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2009 | Comments Off
From the tiny outpost of Rankin Inlet, in Canada’s remote Nunavut Territory, comes the news that Canada’s Governor General, Michaelle Jean, did something on Monday that might come as a surprise to most Americans, who are used to their leaders having more bark than bite. At an Inuit community festival, in a show of [...]
Poor Little Steeler
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The other shoe finally dropped late yesterday in that ugly story of the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker who very publicly refused to accept President Obama’s invitation of the team to the White House, and it turned out to be more of a ballet slipper than an athletic shoe.
James Harrison, last season’s NFL Defensive Player of the [...]
Harvesting the Organs
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | Comments Off
The Republican Party is dying.
It is entering the final throes of its agony. With rapidly metastasizing Rush’s Limboma, and complicated by secondary infections of Newt’s Disease and Palin Palsy, the patient is sinking rapidly. A priest would be summoned, but for that the party only tolerates Catholics for their stance on [...]
No Comment
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Here at OMT, we get letters. God do we get letters. People write to us from all over the world, so great is the reach of the Internet.
Up until recently, we had a crack staff who sifted through these missives and replied to all but the most vitriolic of them. However, certain [...]
Supreme Idiocy
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2009 | Comments Off
The Washington press corps and their TV news lackeys are at it again. This time, they’ve laid down the prerequisites for President Obama’s choice for filling the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court that will open up with the pending retirement of Justice David Souter.
Souter, whose disdain for Washington has driven him to [...]
Echoes From the Dark Side
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Dick Cheney, now in exile in Wyoming, a state that could just as well be America’s version of Siberia, has emerged from his sty recently to take some pointed shots at the Obama administration. America is a much more dangerous place, Cheney maintains, now that its government has taken its ill-advised path of acting [...]
But Seriously, Folks
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Here at OMT, we like to kid around about how we’re a world-class “news organization”, and how our pals over at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are our “news partners”. We think that our readers realize that this is all in good fun, jokesters that we are, and that the reality is nothing of the sort, [...]
