Ball point pen on the morning newsprint As a Yankee fan I remember Ken Griffey Sr. when he played outfield for the Yankee's between 1982-86. Back then, the precocious little junior would run and play in the tunnels under the stadium. Years later he would return with the Seattle Mariners as a super star center fielder and prolific home run hitter. In 1995 he lead the Mariners back from a 0-2 deficit to end the Yankees season by winning three in a row, taking the short five game series, while contibuting five homers. He was the youngest player to hit 350 and 400 HR's, but unlike Barry Bonds, Griffey grew old the old-fashioned way, getting injured and slowing down. Yesterday, Junior became only the sixth player in major league history to hit 600 home runs. Congratulations! ...
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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint No, It's not Matthew Broderick...todays doodle is of David Plouffe (pronounced Pluff), the campaign manager for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Plouffe is credited with the strategy that won Iowa and prolonged the primary season past Super Tuesday. The idea was to esablish an early presence in states where their opponent (believing the race would be over) had no organization. That strategy yielded twelve consecutive wins after super Tuesday and produced the margin of victory that would never be relinquished. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint I will continue on Monday profiling the team behind Barack Obama. Today I wanted to take a moment to remember Robert F. Kennedy. On June 5th 1968 he was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning California's Primary election that day. He died the following day-forthy years ago today. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Leading off, Political consultant, David Axelrod. Axelrod is credited with implementing a strategy that encouraged grassroots participation, involving the people and giving them a stake in the campaign. Encouraging bloggers and using the internet to build an army of donors contributing a hundred dollars or less, Obama's grass roots fund raising soon dwarfed the small number of deep pocketed contributors in other campaigns . ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Congratulations to Senator Obama! Yesterday in my post regarding the passing of Bo Diddley I linked to some footage of him performing his self titled song released in 1955. That was before Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech, before the end of Jim Crow laws, before civil rights legislation, and before Barack Obama was born. The camera pans several times to the audience showing white kids bopping to Bo's rhythm and blues, but in the last few seconds (about 5:17 in) the camera pans to a segregated group black girls enjoying the show from what appears to be the balcony. That was fifty years ago, when many southern states legislated that blacks had to use a separate entrance, learn at a separate school, drink from a separate faucet, sit at the back of the bus, and could only sit in the balcony at theaters...Last night our nation made Bar ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Three beats, a pause, then two more beats. That was the trademark Bo Diddley beat that Bo used in his self titled song, and as the foundation for so many of his hits. He influenced a generation of artists including Buddy Holly, U2 and George Thorogood, who covered and introduced a new audience to his song "Who Do You Love". Bo received a life time Grammy Award and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 79. WATCH BO DIDDLEY HERE AND HERE ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint This weekend at the Democratic Rules Committee, Clinton loyalist Harold Ickes said that Senator Clinton instructed him to reserve the right to appeal to the Credentials Committee at the Democratic convention in August. la de da de de, la de da de da ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Growing up, I loved the Carol Burnett show. Part of it's charm was that they didn't edit out the mistakes...the cast was so funny that they cracked each other up. The more they tried to control themselves and get through the dialog, the funnier it was. They were having such a good time doing the show that the laughter was contagious. Sadly, Harvey Korman passed away yesterday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 81. ...
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