http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists Brian O'Neill's column en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:43:15 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09309/1010950-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml Thirty years ago this week, I walked out on my first newspaper job, and the editor turned in his resignation with me. It was easy for me to quit. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09307/1010298-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml This is among the new definitions of irony in the Iron City. Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09305/1009694-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml There's another proposal in Harrisburg to reduce the size of America's Largest Full-Time State Legislature -- only this one would take 44 years. Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09302/1009174-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml I'm walking my dog early Tuesday night when my wife calls me on my cell, and she's going all Gladys Kravitz on me. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09300/1008549-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml Graceland Automotive has the greatest waiting room in the history of man. I say that with little fear of contradiction. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09298/1007942-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml My left thumb is swollen with a cartoonish blue glow. My car is a mile away at Graceland Automotive, the driver's side window torn from the moorings. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09295/1007448-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml Let's play "Philanthropy!" It's this great new game from The Pittsburgh Foundation. You pick a charity. Offer it, say, 50 bucks from your credit card. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09293/1006794-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml In general, the ferocity of the rant is inverse to the willingness to give or sign a name. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09291/1006184-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml You know all the libraries in Allegheny County have computers now. They've been humming for better than a decade. You probably don't know how they got there. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09288/1005669-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml George Carlin, who can still make me laugh even after he's dead, once said that in America, "If you nail two pieces of wood together in some way they've never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it." Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:22:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09286/1005055-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml Misplaced priorities have been on people's minds lately. That can happen when news of Pittsburgh being named America's No. 1 Sports City arrives just as the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh gets set to close five of its 19 branches. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09284/1004374-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml I'm ready to submit a column idea to the Pulitzer Prize Committee, hoping I'll win one. It won't be an actual column, mind you, just the idea. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09281/1003866-155.stm?cmpid=oneill.xml Not two weeks after Pittsburgh hosts the world, slapping ourselves on our collective back for great civic strides, we're told we don't even have what it takes to keep our neighborhood libraries open. Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:01:00 -0400