Rabe Ramblings

I’d had enough. Sitting behind my microphone co-hosting the morning show on the SportsFan Radio Network in 1997, my blood was boiling as my ...

Nothing has drawn me out of hiding to post here in over a year, including even the 2011 World Series, which was the most enjoyable sports mo...

Just when you think it can't be done any more perfectly, just when you go and name your list of people who are improbably still alive ...

More and more, when some old famous person that nobody realized was still alive dies, I get people saying to me, "I thought of you when...

I see that Paul Gray, bassist for the death metal band Slipknot has died. That's too bad. He looked like a nice guy.

Now a good couple of years into my 40's, I do not find evidence for my rapidly advancing age wanting. As I often tell people, it's ...

Since I know you've been dying for me to acknowledge it (get it? Dying for me to acknowledge it? I kill me.), despite being caught up ...

In light of Butler's appearance in tonight's NCAA Championship game (a sentence I cannot believe even as I write it), I thought it w...

In our pampered, Western, American lives, rich with comfort and luxury, there is no question that Christians can (and often do) become lazy ...

Not surprisingly, the craven Congress has passed the health care bill, meaning that in just a few short years, your health care will be in t...

Fess Parker from "Daniel Boone" has died . To which I say, "Fess Parker was still alive ?!?" No way anyone knew Fess P...

As the health care summit/charade opens today in Washington, a few thoughts come to mind. First is the recognition of what's really hap...

Chris Hitchens does today to Al Haig what he usually does to high profile dead folks . While there's much truth in Hitchens' gl...

From Doug Wilson: When it comes to food choices, I think catholic and eclectic is good -- live and let live, eat and let eat. What I can...

A couple of events that transpired this week demonstrated the profound, prescient, and...I don't know--I'm looking for one more ...

A few notes to start 2010 off on the right foot. It shall henceforth be pronounced "twenty-ten," NOT "two-thousand ten."...

According to an article in Der Spiegel (a name that always cracks me up, as does most of the German language in the post-war, Mel Brooks er...

Hey, 'dya forget about me? Sure you did. However, all is forgiven because it's November and that means it's time for another p...

Hey, it's been a while. What're ya gonna do? Life gets busy sometimes. In the meantime, here are some interesting things I've...

There is a natural and proper tendency, following someone's death, to speak words of grace and admiration. Even if the deceased was an ...