Russell Rhodes Blog

According to TMZ, Madame Tussauds has a wax head made of Kanye West—but not Joe Biden.

So, I wrote last night in my previous blog about America celebrating its Semiquincentennial. It’s America’s 250th anniversary. I have this friend that reads my blog. Let’s call him Charley.…

I came across a Ken Burns PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson. It got me thinking on where we are as a country. An idea. An experiment in freedom. We are…

I’m enjoying a few days off. Away from the news. Well, I’m never really away from it. That said, I’m watching the heartbreaking news of what had happened on the…

We lost one of the great ones this week. Bill Moyers. Public servant. Minister. Journalist. Documentary producer. I never met Bill Moyers, but I want to believe I came really…

I came to San Antonio to celebrate the career of an incredible journalist, Deborah Knapp. She was a mentor to me and more importantly, a dear friend. Deborah Knapp. A…

Haven’t posted in awhile here. Today, I had too. We lost one of the great character actors today. George Wendt. He played Norm Peterson on “Cheers” from 1982 until 1993.…

We toss that word around a lot. Hero. I’m on a Delta flight from New York back to Tampa. Great trip, by the way. The heroes on this plane are…

I’m sitting in my hotel room in New York thinking about the last time I interviewed former President Jimmy Carter. We lost him yesterday at the age of 100. I…

Given what I do for a living, I always regard Election Day as my Super Bowl. I have to bring my “A” game today. Tomorrow too for that matter. The…

The last few weeks have been tough. Tough on a lot of people because of the hurricanes and their damage. Tough on all of us to just go through it.…