Our Quote of the Day comes from Fox News’ Sean Hannity who defended fired Rutger’s basketball coach Mike Rice for getting rough with his players — something caught on video that has also now led to the resignation of Rutger’s athletic director:
“Maybe we need a little more discipline in society. Maybe we don’t have to be a bunch of wimps for the rest of our lives,” he added. “My father hit me with a belt. I turned out okay.”
DMML. (Don’t make me laugh.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.