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Ed Puskas

Even if it’s ICE-y outside, keep protests out of churches

Don Lemon, in his neverending quest to reacquire some form of relevance after his CNN show assumed room temperature, barged into a St. Paul, Minnesota, church during a Sunday service — accompanied by a horde of obnoxious protesters — to rail against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Like it or not, your information is out there

Last week in this space, I mentioned being something of a libertarian. Breaking down my feelings to an all-encompassing, declarative sentence might be difficult, but it I had to, it might be this: Just leave me alone, and I’ll leave you alone. I’m not exactly antisocial, but public ...

It’s time for the annual ‘Airing of Grievances’

“I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you’re going to hear about it!” — Frank Costanza, during the Festivus “Airing of Grievances” in a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld” Every now and then, my travels on the interwebs lead me to that legendary clip of Jerry Stiller’s ...

Presidential speech isn’t what it used to be

Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters like to compare him to another two-term Republican president — Ronald Reagan. I’ve never seen that, I suppose you could find some common ground in their philosophies, but their personalities — at least as they appeared in public or on ...

College football has changed, but The Game still means plenty

While you’re reading this, I’ll be working my way through some Thanksgiving leftovers and watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat TTUN, 103-0, as Michigan fans go back in time to the Jim Tressel-Urban Meyer years. OK, so no one — even the most rabid Buckeyes fan — expects that kind of ...

A real column about AI and its pluses, minuses

One of my favorite online videos of recent vintage explains the FAFO Principle — fool around and find out. Just for the record — and to save everyone the trouble of dashing off a snarky email — I know that’s a sanitized interpretation of FAFO as most of us have come to know it. But ...