Gene Collier
Columnist at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Now entering a fifth decade writing columns in Pittsburgh. No improvement. Also, Carbon County Sports Hall of Fame (Oh, it's real.)
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3 days ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
Baby’s so high that she’s skying / Yes she’s flying, afraid to fall. / I’ll tell you why baby’s crying, / ’Cause she’s dying, aren’t we all.”Those are the bridge lyrics in the old Harry Chapin heartbreaker “Taxi,” a haunting ballad too long and too maudlin to fly anywhere near the top of the pop charts in its day, but its thematic regret, of dying and lying and lying about dying somehow seem pretty fresh, right?
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6 days ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
Sunday is the first day of hurricane season, and we trust you’ll note the occasion accordingly. I usually drive to the Dairy Queen, then cry softly in the car over an Oreo blizzard, but wait — being told that’s more a matter for Mental Health Month. Anyway, hurricane season is now officially longer than football season and potentially a lot more destructive according to the people at NOAA who survived DOGE season, in which Elon Musk blew through the government infrastructure like a Category 5.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
Though it can sometimes feel as though I was in college when Pebbles Flintstone was a cheerleader, some of the pillars of professional excellence we revered in journalism school held up fashionably for most of the next half century. In the case of CBS News and its investigative flagship “60 Minutes,” until this spring.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
The Memorial Day weekend has long claimed an extra-comfortable place on the American calendar, a four-day affair with beer, baseball, hot dogs, and rock ‘n’ roll (see WDVE’s annual Memorial Day 500 countdown), even as its original intent didn’t figure into anyone’s version of a celebration.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Gene Collier
By the end of the month, we’re told, Elon Musk’s quasi-official tenure as the government’s Minister of Demolition will expire, potentially an occasion of great joy if the next phase of Trump 2.0 weren’t even more sinister.
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