"Red Barber: Lessons For Devianced-down Age"

This is a wonderful article by Curt Smith about Red Barber: "Insanity is said to be doing the same thing, expecting a different result. By that measure, today’s culture is insane. Increasingly, we rely on an ipod or video game to help think and learn. Lacking: a voice of sanity to fight deviancing-and dumbing-down. Recently, such a voice was hailed in Columbus, Mississippi, on the centenary anniversary of his 1908 birth. Walter Lanier (Red) Barber defined an age before cynicism, victim hood, and elbow-in-the rib scatology. Recalling it/him, we teach ourselves."