The self inflicted crisis

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Published Date Wednesday, 25 February 2015

WASHINGTON - D.C. - Retiring senator Barbara Boxer had a lot to say about Homeland Security this week and called into question the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate.

She also discusses immigration, President Obama and kicking out 11 million illegal immigrants.

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North Korea - Blow me!

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Published Date Friday, 19 December 2014

And Sony, James Franco and Seth Rogen can eat me!

There is a great misconception going around today that somehow Sony Pictures limited Seth Rogen and James Franco’s First Amendment rights by bowing to pressure from North Korea and pulling the picture “The Interview” from a general release on Christmas day.

While it may stand as a critical response to the lack of acting, writing and directing skills of the principles involved in the movie and while it may also speak volumes about the lack of intestinal fortitude of those in Sony’s management – After all “Team America World Police” was released and that parody featured a leader of North Korea who was portrayed –literally- as a puppet, the mastermind of terrorism across the world and ultimately as a cockroach. But in the end it isn’t a violation of Freedom of Expression or Free Speech to withdraw the release of “The Interview.”

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He killed Pink Floyd's Pig!

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Published Date Friday, 26 September 2014

It was the heyday of rock n’ roll radio. For those of us who worked in radio at the time, it was an era filled with sex, drugs, rock and good times.

If you weren’t around, think of "WKRP in Cincinnati" but amped up and wilder – and far less “G” rated.

Now someone who spent the time at high levels in the radio industry during the glorious 70s has penned an  eponymous  recounting of life in the rock n’ roll fast lane during the last, great rock n’ roll boom of the 1970s and early 80s.

Beau Phillips adventure, “I Killed Pink Floyd’s Pig” named after a very funny chapter that you’ll have to read to understand, tells humorous and sometimes poignant tales of rock n’ roll viewed from the best seat in the house – a radio station program director and executive at the early MTV networks.

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