NPR’s ‘Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’ You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. Or Can You? – New York Times IT’S hard to picture the anchor of NBC’s nightly television newscast enjoying “appointment radio,” but that’s what Brian Williams said he does at home each weekend. He sits with his avalanche of Sunday papers, yelling out answers to public radio’s comedy news quiz, “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” “Like so many fans of the show,” Mr. Williams said recently, “I have said to more than one family member at times, ‘Boy, I bet I could do well on there.’…
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A little browsing in Bloglines led me to this post: My Left Wing :: A Stretch No More: Crossing the Godwin Divide (Part I) …which led me to another blogger, Steven D’s post, “We Live Under A Dictatorship,” which is worth a good, hard read. Another link on the first blog led me somewhere familiar: The Guardian: Jonathan Raban/Dictatorship is the danger What is surprising – more than that, electrifying – is that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O’Connor, who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O’Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee. Regarded as…