Yesterday began such a celebratory day for the fine folk at the hodgepodge somehow labeled Versant. Their key executives got to play bell ringers to open the first full trading day of 2026 , with the cameras of their crown jewel CNBC (revised logo and all) covering them. And they’ve actually decided to establish roots … Read more
For the record, I did watch the onset of the Tony Dokoupil era of the CBS EVENING NEWS and, for whatever it’s worth, for me he didn’t evoke any memories of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather or even Jeff Glor. But he did remind me an awful lot of Tom Grunick. Oh, c’mon you millennials and … Read more
The fat farting fuhrer is on the warpath again. (Literally). Fiddlesticks, or something to that effect that also begins with the same letter. Once again, for reasons best known only to him and perhaps his dark web chat buds, he has chosen to disrupt a perfectly dull and dreary stay-at-home weekend, a truth pretty much … Read more
Whenever I learn someone I know had both the conviction and the connections to actually write a book, I’m inspired to amplify it to the extent that I can. After all, we’re just about to hit 1500 of these musings, and my original intent was to follow the lead of other daily bloggers I’ve known … Read more
Almost forgotten amidst the tumult and tug-of-war involving today’s CNN is that they still have a pretty darn good documentaries division that when given the space can turn it into a viewing destination as worthy as their sister network HBO. First Night and the fact that even Scott Jennings needs a break from eye-rolling his … Read more
Happy New Year to those who celebrate. It’s our semiquincentennial, and if the guttural message that Sam Elliott intoned that proved to be the first commercial I saw in 2026 is any example the over-the-top approach we’re gonna be indulged with for at least the first half of the year I’m gonna be googling Bicentennial … Read more
One of the biggest reasons we pivoted this year to an attempt to use statistics as a way to revisit 2025 was because what we attempted over the last ten days of 2024 went over like a lead balloon. That effort, which we whimsically dubbed “Predictions and Wishes”, was generally ignored by all but the … Read more
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped … Read more
NOTE: As has become our custom since we launched this endeavor, we are devoting the last ten days of the year to reprising what we consider to the best of what we’ve mused about in the 355 preceding trips around the sun. But since we’re evolving and we pride ourselves on having a foundation steeped … Read more
NOTE: We interrupt this “Best of ’25” countdown to bring you a dual illumination of what we shared today on our sister site Double Overtime–ya know, the one where we typically urge you to visit regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional reports on business and technology. As you will hopefully discover … Read more