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Hey, First Buddy. Here’s A Far Better Tire For You To Kick

Hey, First Buddy. Here’s A Far Better Tire For You To Kick

MEMO TO: ELON MUSK, Founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. Owner, CTO and executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter) President of the Musk Foundation Founder of The Boring Company, X Corp., and xAI Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) Co-Chair of the Department of Government Efficiency FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT, SL MEDIA ENTERPRISES RE:  POTENTIAL “TRADITIONAL … Read more

Looking For Answers, UHC? Start With Three Words.

Looking For Answers, UHC? Start With Three Words.

One of the more colorful–literally–peddlers of content I’ve ever dealt with was a glib silver-maned salesman who insisted his “friends” refer to him as “The Colonel”.   He supposedly was a war veteran, but you wouldn’t know it from his garish fashion choices–almost always preferring light-colored sweater vests to dark suit jackets.  Among the titles he … Read more

Family Matters

Family Matters

How apropos–or perhaps ironic–that over a holiday weekend where I’m told people were spending time with family members (not in my case, mind you) that the breaking news alerts that popped up most frequently involved politicians and their respective family members. Perhaps the noisiest was the one that happened yesterday that CNN’s duo of Marshall … Read more

She Got The Right To Lose

She Got The Right To Lose

In slightly more normal times a Group of Five conference tournament for a secondary women’s sport would be wholly unworthy of any sort of spotlight.  The Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball tournament final that was held yesterday wasn’t even worthy of a tile on ESPN+, and the report from a local beat writer, Kevin Lytle … Read more

Ozapalooza Comes To Washington

Ozapalooza Comes To Washington

Out of all of the many eyebrow and blood pressure-raising appointments to the incoming president’s cabinet that have been released in plumes of white smoke disguised as posts on Truth Social since a majority of Americans decided to bring him back to the country’s highest office, one that has been derided a bit more than … Read more

Mourning In America?

Mourning In America?

America has spoken.  And they’ve made their choices in a free and fair democratic election, with no bombs actually going off. And if my social media feeds are any indication, as a country we’ve apparently committed hari-kari. Well, as someone who has often been put in the uncomfortable position of conveying results of far less … Read more

What Idiot Invited This Jackwad To The Party?

What Idiot Invited This Jackwad To The Party?

My roommate was literally over the moon about the spectacle that occupied Madison Square Garden on a rare day when the Knicks, Rangers or a concert wasn’t booked, one he claims he watched from end to end yesterday.  He couldn’t stop raving about the energy, the love and the size of the crowd–perhaps because it … Read more