Author: Ted Byrne (Ted Byrne)

PBS hucksters Biff and Muffy bleated “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” from my TV and radio a couple of weeks back. They’re volunteers who run infomercial plead-athons on WTAX (KTAX west of the Mississippi). Looking weary after a dreadful day in the operating room or maybe on the trading floor— and even though their Pierre Gardins were...

When Lorena Bobbitt startled her hubby one evening with a knife through his privates—vigorously severing an intimate part of their relationship—a lot of women apparently admired the, uh, statement Lorena made that night. I own the conversation radio station for Lancaster & York counties in Pennsylvania, and the other morning Lorena Bobbitt talk poured from...

Los Angeles was bopped by debris crumbling loose from twenty-five years of a Great Society gone goofy, or so believe the callers from all over America with whom I talk for three hours on weekday afternoons. These talk-show callers are angry, frightened, and baffled. They’re angry at pictures of rabble marching on Korean grocers like...