I have an iPhone and I have a few apps on it. One that gets a lot of action from me when I have a few minutes on downtime is a Solitaire card program (I won’t mention the manufacturer). Just like real cards, the “cards” don’t’ get shuffled well after you win, so, you often […]

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WXRT Morning DJ Lin Brehmer responded to my posts and here is his comments unedited: “Many of your assessments are erroneous. Hyperbole masquerading as facts. I understand why you would do that but don’t expect people to react well. Here’s the problem. We play more music than any other commercial station in any major market […]

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Long time readers know that I have been a critic of WXRT for a very long time; however, I had not posted anything here on the subject recently. Part of my continued rants at the station was personal – I had sent two different letters to Norm Winer at the station and never received any […]

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After the online shouting ended, I was going to come here and write a post titled “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution?” I was going to urge everyone who used to listen to WXRT, or who were getting tired the same old station to e-mail Mr. Farneda (john@wxrt.com) or write CBS like my online pen pal Ira […]

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I’m not very religious. I was raised Methodist and I can’t say I’m much of a believer anymore. So, I’ve spent most of the day calling today the “Annual Dirty Forehead Day,” since, being Ash Wednesday. I’m not Catholic but as I walked around at lunch today, I could see the people with the smudges […]

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I hate when the mainstream media makes a big deal out of part of a big story that is meaningless. All over the media – CNN, the Chicago Tribune, so many others, – are headlines that the NFL faces a big deadline tonight when the collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union expires. Yes, it […]

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The biggest story over the past several weeks has involved the strange antics and rants of “Two and A Half Men” star Charlie Sheen. Drugs, porn stars, hard partying, and now biting the hands that feed him. Sheen declared that he is “at war” with CBS and the producers of his sitcom “Two and a […]

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