by Michael Olesker | Dec 9, 2019 | Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Remember that infamous scene from “The Graduate” where Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) tells Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” Of course she was. And if you’ve seen the movie, then you remember not only that... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 6, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
I like the op-ed piece Rikki Spector wrote in The Sun on Wednesday, Dec. 4. She told some painful truths about crime and political indifference in the city of Baltimore. I like the piece, also, for something Spector left unsaid but should resonate with voters. Spector... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 4, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Imagine the gall of Jonathan Turley, the brilliant law professor and legal scholar who helps open impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump by willfully misreading history. I write this on Wednesday morning, Dec. 4, before Turley, a GOP witness, has even sat... read more
by Michael Olesker | Dec 2, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
In the Baltimore Ravens’ 20-17 victory in the rain on Sunday, Dec. 1, the most compelling moment for me wasn’t Justin Tucker’s 49-yard field goal at the last second but Lamar Jackson’s fumble in the third quarter. Tucker, you expect such things. Jackson, you don’t.... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 29, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker, The Balagan
You know who I miss? I miss Sam Moss, who had a radio program around here, but only for about 35 years. On Sunday mornings, when the gentiles were in church, Sam was on the radio kibitzing with the Jews. In Sam’s inflections came echoes of Borscht Belt merriment, of... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 29, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Just off the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood where I did most of my growing up, we had a massive wooded area that ran from the Chizuk Amuno Arlington Cemetery off of Rogers Avenue all the way over to Patterson Avenue, not far from the Reisterstown Road Plaza. The... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 27, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker, Uncategorized
Some of us feel an emptiness this week that has nothing to do with turkey or stuffing. City College and Poly should be playing football on Thanksgiving Day, the way they did for roughly a century. But they’re not. They played three weeks ago, and City won, giving the... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 25, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Today, I will give my Republican friends the memory of Dr. Ross Z. Pierpont. Remember Ross? For all those who look at former Mayor Catherine Pugh’s troubles and the long continuum of Democratic leaders during the city of Baltimore’s fall from grace, I offer memories... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 22, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
Among the treasures remaining from my newspapering days is a Mike Lane political cartoon, clipped from Baltimore’s Evening Sun editorial page somewhere during the awful time of the Vietnam War. Lane did his cartooning for the Evening Sun for a couple of decades until... read more
by Michael Olesker | Nov 20, 2019 | Blogs, Blogs & Opinion, Michael Olesker
The most emotional moment in the House impeachment inquiry yesterday, Nov. 19, was when Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, in front of the entire nation, assured his father that he would be all right because their family was safe in America now. “Dad,” said Vindman, the... read more
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