Peter Funt
Full Archive
- 03/19/2024 What’s with all the big stuff?
- 03/11/2024 Our obsession with true crime
- 02/26/2024 Big pharma’s song and dance
- 02/13/2024 Larry David can’t curb his instincts
- 02/08/2024 Billy Joel’s AI State of Mind
- 02/01/2024 Did you really think TV would ditch ads?
- 01/22/2024 Pebble Beach benches celebrities
- 12/28/2023 Tom Smothers was serious about politics
- 12/06/2023 TV news puts its trust in women
- 11/20/2023 Fed Up? Yes. Nasty? No.
- 10/26/2023 Are you ready for some fantasy football?
- 10/17/2023 Suzanne Somers was pure showbiz
- 09/11/2023 Strikes make a humorless campaign even more so
- 08/21/2023 The Babe’s bats are still powerful
- 06/28/2023 Biden parodies strike out
- 06/12/2023 Pity the poor Trump donors
- 06/06/2023 Forget the mint. How about a fresh pillowcase?
- 05/23/2023 Chatbots are speaking my language
- 05/17/2023 All in a day’s deletions
- 05/09/2023 The vastness Newton Minow leaves behind
- 05/01/2023 The man who made food shopping fun
- 04/10/2023 It’s about time
- 03/29/2023 Pining for drier days
- 02/23/2023 Viewers should ask, what’s up with docs?
- 01/10/2023 Cry me an atmospheric river
- 01/02/2023 How Barbara Walters crafted her incomparable career
- 12/02/2022 Oy Tannenbaum
- 11/18/2022 TV tosses tinsel on 158 holiday films
- 11/09/2022 SOS to Apple: Fix this
- 09/20/2022 In fundraising, father knew best
- 08/30/2022 Give me a news break
- 08/24/2022 Fantasy Football’s Reality Check
- 08/15/2022 Democrats should be Iowa stubborn
- 07/12/2022 Make national parks free for all
- 06/30/2022 When it comes to water, we Californians are brown with envy
- 05/16/2022 Hollywood, like society, has trouble with the truth
- 04/25/2022 Players cling to baseball’s unwritten rules
- 03/16/2022 $ong sung green as music sales boom
- 03/07/2022 We Don’t Want Blood-Stained Oil
- 03/02/2022 Don’t Throw Away Your Mask
- 02/11/2022 Bingeing New TV Shows Won’t Last Long
- 02/02/2022 Washington Football Team goes for super blah
- 01/27/2022 Biden’s promise will weigh on court nominee
- 01/20/2022 Dog walkers know rules of the road
- 12/30/2021 New Year. New Laws. New Disparities.
- 12/24/2021 8mm Memories in a Digital Age
- 12/20/2021 Nike Becomes a Uni-Bomber
- 12/15/2021 Life Lessons From the Road
- 12/02/2021 A Guy Never Forgets His First Car
- 11/09/2021 Money, Money, Money
- 10/15/2021 This NFL Season Is in Handcuffs
- 10/04/2021 SNL Stumbles Over Biden
- 09/20/2021 Come on, Amazon, Make Service a Prime Concern
- 09/08/2021 Pay or Punish the Un-Vaxed?
- 08/18/2021 Big Memories of Little League
- 08/09/2021 73 Years of Smiles and Insights
- 08/02/2021 Taking Time to Think About Time
- 07/16/2021 All the Presidents’ Teeth
- 07/06/2021 The Memoir Pandemic
- 06/23/2021 Political Emails Reach New Lows
- 06/08/2021 There’s Too Much Breaking News to Bear
- 04/19/2021 Abnormality Has Its Virtues
- 03/19/2021 What’s in Store for Biden on SNL?
- 01/29/2021 The Wonder of Sonny Fox
- 01/21/2021 Trading Cards Collect New Fans
- 11/11/2020 Trump’s Game Shouldn’t Fool Anyone
- 11/05/2020 Voting Ends, Emails Continue
- 10/29/2020 How Real Should Reel Life Be?
- 10/09/2020 Documentaries Are Often Misleading
- 09/30/2020 Don’t Validate Trump by Nixing the Debates
- 09/04/2020 A Summer of Labor Days
- 08/28/2020 Fear Is on the Ballot
- 08/21/2020 In Search of My 9-Dollar Heirloom
- 08/07/2020 What’s to Debate About Needing More Debates?
- 07/31/2020 Trump’s Message
- 07/17/2020 Ballplayers Do a Spit-Take
- 07/14/2020 If COVID Isn’t a National Tragedy, What Is?
- 06/02/2020 A New Morning in News
- 05/14/2020 Sometimes a Rose Is More Than a Rose
- 05/11/2020 Class of 2020: Can You Hear Me Now?
- 05/05/2020 Biden Needs More Clickbait
- 04/24/2020 What YouTube Sees in Me
- 04/14/2020 Briefings Hit a New Low
- 04/08/2020 Politics in the Pandemic
- 04/06/2020 When to Pull the Plug on the President?
- 03/30/2020 The ‘Thank You Wave’ Makes a Comeback
- 03/24/2020 Trump’s Briefings Might as Well Be Briefer
- 03/16/2020 Apocalypse When?
- 03/09/2020 Candidly, Voters are Easily Confused
- 03/02/2020 Who Offers the Rx for Troubled Times?
- 02/25/2020 Candidates Peddle Their Papers
- 02/17/2020 Sooner or Later, Klobuchar Will Take the Prize
- 01/31/2020 Well-Organized Sanders Revolution Poised for Iowa Win
- 01/29/2020 Surrogates Carry the Ball in Iowa
- 01/28/2020 Iowa’s Stubbornness Makes Caucuses Hard to Predict
- 01/20/2020 I Can’t Endorse the Times’s Approach
- 01/17/2020 Snubbed
- 01/15/2020 Debate Fatigue
- 01/09/2020 Democrats’ Do Not Do List
- 01/06/2020 Democrats’ 2020 Outlook Is Hardly 20/20
- 12/16/2019 Democrats’ Debates Aren’t Helping Much
- 11/26/2019 Ho, Ho, the Mistletoe
- 11/22/2019 This Debate Was a Moderated Mess
- 11/15/2019 Trump’s Tweet Sets a Dangerous Precedent
- 10/24/2019 This World Series Has Real Gamers
- 10/18/2019 Waking Up to Smarter School Scheduling
- 08/23/2019 Litter to the Auditor
- 08/20/2019 1. Make Lists. 2. Read Lists. 3. Make More Lists.
- 08/07/2019 I’ll Bet on News Over Views
- 08/05/2019 Democrats Are Strangely Quiet About Guns
- 08/02/2019 Forgive Me. This Is Cold.
- 07/29/2019 Mueller’s Real Warning
- 07/22/2019 Hollywood Says Hooray for Mayor Pete
- 07/15/2019 The Mighty Pen Strikes Out
- 07/02/2019 NBC’s Debatable Debate Coverage
- 06/25/2019 I’m Sorry Joe Biden Sends So Many Emails
- 06/19/2019 I’d Trade 23 Candidates for One Sure Winner
- 06/13/2019 FDR in 2020
- 06/06/2019 What I Learned from One Busy Mom
- 05/20/2019 We’re All Seeking Sanctuary
- 05/10/2019 Cable Hosts Get The Memo
- 05/03/2019 Are Democrats Eating Their Own?
- 05/01/2019 Making Voting Easier
- 03/13/2019 California and the Death Penalty
- 02/19/2019 Politicians Are Running for TV Jobs
- 02/11/2019 Amy for America
- 02/07/2019 For Whom the Horn Honks
- 01/30/2019 Kamala Harris Tests CNN’s Campaign
- 01/23/2019 Corporate Players Love the Name Game
- 01/11/2019 No Oscar Host? No Problem!
- 01/03/2019 Bingeing Makes an Unhealthy TV Diet
- 12/26/2018 2019 Precap
- 12/12/2018 My Fantasy World
- 12/05/2018 A Strategy for Giving
- 11/16/2018 Give Trump Credit When Due
- 11/12/2018 Dogs Get Their Day in Florida Voting
- 11/05/2018 Onward to 2020
- 10/24/2018 How Many Newsletters Do You Receive?
- 10/21/2018 Arizona Mirrors the Midterm Divide
- 10/12/2018 It’s News to Me
- 10/04/2018 Corporate Names Go From Dollars to Donuts
- 09/30/2018 Kavanaugh and Beyond
- 09/19/2018 In Trump We Profit
- 09/17/2018 My Dad Deserved an Emmy
- 09/06/2018 Jimmy Carter’s Uncommon Decency
- 08/28/2018 Pre-Mourning Boosts Life Before Death
- 08/22/2018 Truth Will Out
- 08/21/2018 This Column Is a Column
- 08/14/2018 Baseball’s No-Comfort Zone
- 08/06/2018 Jamestown Is Now a Very Funny Place
- 07/30/2018 News the Numbers
- 07/18/2018 Trump’s 27 Loaded Questions
- 07/09/2018 Vacation Checklist
- 06/29/2018 The Maryland Muddle
- 06/25/2018 The Photo with Borderline Truth
- 06/14/2018 Boom Times in the Golden State
- 06/07/2018 Many Unhappy Returns
- 05/31/2018 Honestly, We’re Really Very Sorry
- 05/22/2018 Getting There Is Now One-Tenth of One Percent the Fun
- 05/14/2018 Baseball Bobbles Its Giveaways
- 05/07/2018 Trump’s Artful Dodging
- 04/30/2018 Plenty to Clean Up After Dinner
- 04/25/2018 A Week of Pomp and Circumstance
- 07/26/2010 Race Against Time
- 07/22/2010 Penny Wise and Fan Foolish
- 07/16/2010 Link to This
- 07/10/2010 King James Version
- 07/05/2010 The Daily Content
- 06/28/2010 Help Needed
- 06/21/2010 Studying the T-Threat
- 06/17/2010 News I Can’t Bear
- 06/14/2010 Tough Sell
- 06/10/2010 If I Ran a High School…
- 06/03/2010 Info Addict
- 05/24/2010 Up Front in America
- 05/19/2010 Gore’s New Gang
- 05/17/2010 We Are the Wonks
- 05/13/2010 A Closed Open
- 05/03/2010 A Standup President
- 04/28/2010 Cover Story
- 04/22/2010 Spit Ball
- 04/14/2010 Stuck in the Spin Cycle
- 04/07/2010 Got Apps?
- 04/02/2010 The Coca-Cola Column