- James Zogby: Faux Faithful Abuse Constitution
- Times Change
- When did radio announcers start talking like Ted Williams, the homeless man with a great voice?
- Darya Pino, Ph.D: How To Tell If It's Really Food: A Flowchart
- GOP Freshman wants his taxpayer-subsidized care — and he wants it now
- Texas reporters take gun class for Capitol ‘express lane’ privilege
January 8, 2011
January 8, 2011 – I know you people. You’re gonna like this.
January 7, 2011 – As an old-time radio aficionado, I can tell you that it wasn’t so much the “announcer voice” in the Golden Age as the exaggerated, formal diction many radio people used when introducing programs. And let’s not forget that radio fidelity on both the sending and receiving ends was a lot less precise than it is today. You didn’t have aural exciters and compression, nor FM and good speakers.
January 7, 2011
January 7, 2011 – You know what we should do? Make Congress Critters independent contractors. After all, they’re on temporary assignment in Washington, aren’t theY? As contractor, responsible for their own health insurance needs, they could have the pleasure of navigating the private insurance market.
January 7, 2011