Rabe Ramblings

The annual fantasy baseball draft was last Saturday. Last year I picked first and finished last. This year I picked close to last, so we...

In 1987, I left home for Butler University in Indianapolis for my freshman year of college. They had an excellent broadcasting program (whic...

Last week, I was invited to appear on the Richard Syrett Show on CFRB radio in Toronto to talk about a television documentary I helped prod...

Today brings the sad news of the death of one of entertainment's greats: Larry "Bud" Melman. Larry became a star on NBC'...

It's been a while since I posted, and I hesitate to make mention of it since I am renowned for hating blogging about blogging (and for m...

Some great stuff on the web this week regarding Richard Dawkins' recent book The God Delusion. Doug Wilson, whose able (and hilarious)...

My wife and I just got back from Massachusetts, where I had taken her for our anniversary. From what I gather, it's rather unusual for ...

From the blog of Gene Edward Veith : Tortilla prices have doubled in Mexico, causing Mexico's legions of poor people, who depend on tort...

Anna Nicole Smith died four miles from my house yesterday, which is kind of bizarre. It's not so much that she died; that much was sadl...

Okay, I suppose domestic abuse isn't funny, but...well...it really sorta is , especially when a celebrity family suddenly breaks out int...

It has now become an annual ritual to dissect the advertisements from the Super Bowl broadcast, analyzing the super-expensive ads on which c...

In an age of militant, perennially-aggrieved, entitlement-oriented special interest groups, one has become so utterly obnoxious that it stan...

I was finally able to watch Alexandra Pelosi's much-talked about HBO documentary "Friends of God" on Tivo last night. The fi...

Doug Wilson, in an unrelated context , supplies an excellent analogy to my conversation with the conspiracy theorist: [It] reminds me of an ...

ME: So you believe President Bush had something to do with 9/11? HIM: Yes, he had at least something to do with it. Too much doesn't ad...

Someone sharing my name does a pictorial comparison of Cardinals fans versus Yankees fans. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (one of the few remaining ...

For Christmas this year, my lovely wife gave me an XM Satellite Radio, which may be the coolest gift I've ever received. Frankly, I ne...

Okay, the baseball stuff has pretty much killed traffic here this week, so we'll change gears. To soccer! Here's something that eve...

Most discussions about the baseball Hall of Fame are devoid of reason and logic. Few topics of discourse are decided ultimately on "gu...

In any case, it’s unfortunate that the McGwire controversy will taint the elections of Ripken and Gwynn, two of the game’s undisputed good g...