The Worst Place In The World
Gregg "Opie" Hughes, formerly of the Opie and Anthony radio/satellite radio show, once called Twitter "the worst place in the world." His assertion was in reference to the horrid behavior exhibited by some in response to, well, just about anything. We've all seen it,...
The Sniff Test
George Carlin had a fun bit about unidentifiable leftovers, which I won't spoil apart from mentioning that his wife would have him smell that which he couldn't identify in order to determine its provenance and viability. We all get the gag, of course, and that's...
Nowhere To Turn
Last night, after an obviously quixotic "make a grand but futile gesture" filibuster by Senator Rand Paul that caused a blink-and-you-missed it government "shutdown," Congress passed a big fat spending increase, one that gave both the Republican and Democratic hogs at...
Trump Scandals – The Squid Do Battle. Part II: The Republicans
The obstructing ink of our politicos is thicker than ever, the darting evasions harder to follow, in figuring all of the misconduct from all the actors in the fiasco that was the 2016 Presidential election. The principal charge leveled in my recent article on the...
Review: Altered Carbon on Netflix
Netflix recently released its next bit of original content, a 10 episode adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's superb science fiction novel Altered Carbon. The story, which takes place 500 years hence, is of a world where alien technology has been used to enable...
Popular Vote Petulance
Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles outscored the favored New England Patriots 41-33 to win Super Bowl LII. The blue states of New England wept, while the rest of the nation rejoiced at the upset of golden boy Tom Brady's dynastic team. It was a wild game, with a...
The Piper and the Tune
A small story out of New York offers us a glimpse into the mind of progressive politicians and thinkers. A couple years back, as I was driving in upstate New York, I noticed these spiffy new signs extolling the virtues of the state. Turns out, they were an initiative...
The Personal Is Political – A Review of Trump’s State of the Union Address
One basic rule of logical debate tells us that anecdotes are not data, and that setting policy based on singular instances is a bad idea. Much to Sheldon Cooper's dismay, however, we are not a planet of Vulcans, where Spock-like logic and emotional detachment reign...
America’s Real Fascists
It's become quite fashionable to call Trump, and by extension all who support him, "fascist." That is, of course, when people aren't going full-Godwin (I had one such conversation yesterday, where someone was conflating Trump with Hitler, and utterly obstinate as to...
The Mind of a Child
I've been binge-watching an old British television series called MI-5 (or Spooks, depending where you are). One episode I watched last night, late in Season 4 (or Series 4, to use British nomenclature) included a character that was an old, unrepentant Cold War...
The Politics of Choice
The beginning of National School Choice Week seems an apt time to ponder the term "choice" as it applies to American politics and the left-right divide. The word "choice" has been emphatically reserved by the Left as their own, but this emphatic claim is one of a very...
Shithole Side Show
Begin with the usual modern-media ablution: in denouncements of Donald Trump I yell "Amen!" as loudly as anyone. I believe it's outrageous to call any country a "shithole." My ancestors came from Germany (lookin' at you Drumpf) and the British Isles back when they...
The King of Zing, Part 2
Going into the 2016 election, many of Trump's fans touted him as a master negotiator, a successful businessman, and offered up similar accolades as to his talents and skills. Many of his detractors have since asked, not without merit, where that negotiating mastery...
Identity Politics and Cultural Icons
The devolvement of identity politics into a zero-sum, grievance-hierarchy scrum is perhaps nowhere more obvious than in Hollywood and the entertainment industry overall. Political correctness has become a necessity in modern entertainment production, with diversity...
Rail Follies
California, the land of perfect weather and perfectly loony residents, has failed to surprise the rest of us yet again by announcing massive cost overruns on an already absurdly expensive public works venture. A pipe-dream project to connect Los Angeles and San...
More Scandal Fatigue…
or... He may be a POS, but he's OUR POS Reports that Trump had an affair/fling/one-nighter with a porn star back in 2006, and that one of his lawyers paid her some hush money via some shell companies, have been largely greeted with a collective sigh and ho-hum from...
Who’s Unserious Now?
Political writer Salena Zito may have been the first to summarize the idea that Trump's supporters take him seriously but not literally in explaining how Trump could survive uttering a seemingly endless stream of verbal gaffes and outright falsehoods in the run up to...
A Lesson Unlearned
Ninety-nine years ago today, America, in an epic demonstration of naive, puritanical folly, went dry. It took 13 years to recognize that folly and undo Prohibition. In that time, the only "success" was found in the criminal underworld, where the enormous profit...
Losing Our Humanity
The shitstorm over Trump's shit hole remark is remarkable because of its predictability. No, I don't speak of the vulgarian-in-chief's routinely intemperate ways. I refer to the reactions and counter-reactions, which have become as predictable as the tide. Trump says...
About Those Shitholes
Today's installment of the Trump side show is the sturm-und-drang around his alleged description of Haiti and some African nations as "shitholes," in regard to a proposal to offer special protections for immigrants from those countries. Trump allegedly opined he'd...
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