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Ed Puskas

Everyone just take a deep breath

Everyone else is doing it, so I feel like I should write something about President Donald Trump. Here goes, but first a disclaimer: People who like Trump might become triggered by what follows. People who don’t like Trump may also be triggered. As someone I used to work for once said, if everyone is mad, you’re probably on the right track. Or something like that. I know that hasn’t stopped some of the columnists who appear on our opinion pages. You probably know their names and have read their pieces. You probably know which of them think Trump has made a welcome return to ...

Thanks for everything, Big Chuck

When someone finally gets around to inventing a time machine, I know when and where I’m going. Others will want to take care of the big stuff — killing young Adolf Hitler, saving Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK and RFK and preventing 9/11 — so my time-travel goals are less ambitious, but they will be a bit self-serving. I’ll go back to 1970s northeastern Ohio and pretty much start doing over what I did then … with some lottery numbers in my pocket, of course. Another chance at Little League, backyard football, the Blizzard of ’78 and going fishing with my dad will be more than ...

A stupid human trick caught on video

Somewhere on one of my social media accounts is perhaps the only video evidence that I once did something really stupid. I’m not giving away the platform because as I write this, just a few select people know that this short video exists. No, I didn’t have someone film me beating up a guy in the street after an NFL game because he had the audacity to wear another team’s jersey. I did not berate a woman in the stands at a game because she was rooting against my team. I also did not pull a Jeffrey Toobin during a Zoom call with colleagues. My stupid human trick happened on a ...

Sooner or later, the Browns will be good … I swear

The Cleveland Browns taught my daughter to swear. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. In 2000, The Princess hadn’t even turned 2 yet, but she had already spent more than enough time in a room with her father to get an idea about the frustration that comes with being a Browns fan. ...

What’s the deal with all the polarization?

Given the events of the year that just concluded, it’s no wonder that the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year — announced early last month — was “polarization.” The dictionary folks weren’t suggesting that it’s getting too cold. Quite the opposite, actually. This polarization has ...

Food for thought: Raisin a ruckus about resolutions

It’s almost that time of year. Fresh off a month or more of holiday binge eating (and/or drinking) from Thanksgiving to Christmas and into the New Year, we catch an unfortunate glimpse of ourselves in a full-length mirror and realize we’ve gone off the rails. Perhaps way, way off the ...