Rabe Ramblings

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unremarkable ruling in a discrimination case in which a woman claimed she had been systemat...

As you know by now, the great goddess Science has pronounced global warming a human-induced tragedy that will destroy the entire planet in p...

In an odd confluence, the themes of my previous two separate, unrelated posts suddenly come together in this Slate article today in which t...

These have been widely linked in the blogosphere already, but be sure not to miss the fascinating exchange between the atheist Christopher H...

It takes a lot to bring an uninspired, reclusive blogger--who's been on hiatus for nearly a month--out of his self-imposed exile. But Ji...

As you've probably seen by now, the great journalist and author David Halberstam died the other day , the victim of a car accident in Ca...

The relentlessly clueless Dahlia Lithwick, who covers the Supreme Court for Slate, has weighed in on the Carhart partial-birth abortion r...

We had another one drop off our "Can't Believe They're Still Alive" list this week. Kitty Carlisle-Hart was 97 years old,...

Because the Virginia Tech shooting is understandably overshadowing everything else right now, it would be easy to miss the fact that the Uni...

A new, hilarious sidelight to the never-ending Imus story is the frantic backpedaling by the scores of journalists and politicians who regul...

Imus, not surprisingly, has finally gotten the axe . It seems that all the bowing and scraping did him no good in the end, except to provoke...

I've never gotten Don Imus. I'm a radio guy, and I've spent a good portion of my life studying broadcasters. Even back when I wa...

For whatever it's worth, you can kick off your Easter weekend with an hourlong documentary I co-wrote and co-produced examining the cros...

Wow, the Tennessee Lady Vols, led by legendary coach Pat Summitt, captured their seventh national championship in basketball last night. Le...

The new Major League Baseball season is now underway. (Your defending champions? Why, the St. Louis Cardinals, of course, who will receive...

This week's copy of (the increasingly unreadable) TIME magazine arrived in the mail on Saturday, hysterically pooping its global warmin...

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'...