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Ed Puskas

Presidential speech isn’t what it used to be

Some of President Donald Trump’s supporters like to compare him to another two-term Republican president — Ronald Reagan. I’ve never seen that, I suppose you could find some common ground in their philosophies, but their personalities — at least as they appeared in public or on ...

College football has changed, but The Game still means plenty

While you’re reading this, I’ll be working my way through some Thanksgiving leftovers and watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat TTUN, 103-0, as Michigan fans go back in time to the Jim Tressel-Urban Meyer years. OK, so no one — even the most rabid Buckeyes fan — expects that kind of ...

A real column about AI and its pluses, minuses

One of my favorite online videos of recent vintage explains the FAFO Principle — fool around and find out. Just for the record — and to save everyone the trouble of dashing off a snarky email — I know that’s a sanitized interpretation of FAFO as most of us have come to know it. But ...

Another season ends with a Cleveland World Series win

Now that the Cleveland Guardians are long out of the playoffs, I have to admit that I had a bad feeling about their wildcard series matchup against the Detroit Tigers. Sure, the Guardians’ epic comeback from a 15½-game deficit to win the division was historic and called to mind the New ...

Grand theft auto or something more comical?

We all seem to have that one friend who always gets into weird, sitcom-like situations. Their lives seem like an episode of “Three’s Company,” with all kinds of hijinks and misunderstandings. Their theme song should be “Yakety Sax,” the 1963 novelty instrumental most closely ...

Suddenly, we’re all spouting off on free speech

EDITOR’S NOTE: This From the editor’s desk column was not published in its entirety last weekend, so the full column is being republished today. Free speech has been on the minds of many in the two-plus weeks since the assassination of conservative Christian firebrand Charlie Kirk. Fellow ...