Russ Smith
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Baltimore, MD, United States
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Past articles by Russ:
One of Us Listens to Ringo Starr
I was mostly indifferent to the eight-hour Get Back. Also, compulsory voting is a terrible idea. || Russ Smith → Read More
It’s Another Washout Season for “Prestige” TV Show Succession
Re-runs of The Love Boat are preferable. || Russ Smith → Read More
The Horses Are Off the Track
On occasion, for no particular reason, an off-hand crack, will leave me in stitches, the kind when the laughter is such that I’ll need to remove my glasses and dab the eyes. My wife and I were on a short hop to get coffee, and on NPR there was a clip of some conservative windbag referring to Joe Biden as “a rotten bag of oatmeal.” It wasn’t very original—and perhaps it made a stir on social… → Read More
How to Fix the Baltimore Orioles
A radical plan for the team to shed its laughingstock image. || Russ Smith → Read More
Field of Cornpone
The “Field of Dreams” game was a smart gimmick, but a real impact on MLB would be the lowly Baltimore Orioles converting to an all-black team. || Russ Smith → Read More
Crazy Like a Wolff
I’m glad a troublemaker like Michael Wolff is around in today’s debased, preach-to-your-base media environment. || Russ Smith → Read More
It Is What It Is, Dude.
If I were writing on a “scratch pad,” (the new “first draft of history,” as if reliable historians existed anymore, besides a handful that can’t ink book contracts) one thought might be that I’ve reached enlightenment and have entered the “Post-Twitter-Outrage” club, but honesty compels the declaration that Twitter—the only entertaining social media site—never outraged me. It’s true that as I… → Read More
Blabbermouths
Studies show that experts (pundits) are full of shit. || Russ Smith → Read More
Oh, the Trips You’re Going to Take
In Mr. Brooks’ world, Mr. Natural isn’t required. || Russ Smith → Read More
Karl Rove’s Weekly Column Sullies The Wall Street Journal
George W. Bush’s “architect” complains about media partisanship, but can’t look in the mirror. || Russ Smith → Read More
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Hey, champs, let’s get angry! Choose a topic, no matter how picayune, and wail away! My friend Emma is running an anti-cicada campaign on Twitter—along with her persistent jabs at lame-duck Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who, as is still said in all seriousness by serious political commentators who consider themselves “serious,” looks in the mirror and sees the 47th president, even though he’s… → Read More
Sticky Fingers
I’m all lost in the CVS pharmacy, can’t shop happily. || Russ Smith → Read More
Sliced Cheese
It takes three New York Times reporters to write a Biden puff piece; and Joan Baez will never suffer fate of Van Morrison. || Russ Smith → Read More
A Rare Baseball Bargain
MLB’s “Extra Innings” TV programming is cheap. || Russ Smith → Read More
Poetry in Motion
It’s easier to boycott or cut back on Amazon if you live in NYC. || Russ Smith → Read More
The Police Back Off
“Defunding” is happening because no one wants to be a cop. || Russ Smith → Read More
All That Money Wants
Dusting off a 1980s CD set, and dusting the pompous Ezra Klein. || Russ Smith → Read More
Future Nostalgia
A look back at 1981’s Absence of Malice, when newspapers were humming. || Russ Smith → Read More
Blinded By the Democrats
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, never a leader, cowed by political pressure. || Russ Smith → Read More
Let the Sunshine In
I’m just wild about Twitter, and Twitter’s wild about me. || Russ Smith → Read More