Of all of the headlines that contained that five-letter word that begins and ends with the letters that stand for toilet paper (you know, that pesky substance that sometimes sticks to shoes) that are out in the ether this morning, this one from THE WRAP’s Umberto Gonzalez stood out as perhaps the one that best … Read more
Yeah, I suppose it’s my civic duty to at least pay attention to what will transpire tonight in Atlanta. You know, that debate thing. If you take the Associated Press at face value, and with the state of journalism these days one almost doesn’t have a choice, at least there will be a sizable audience … Read more
My friend in the desert who follows politics voraciously was dealing with a heat wave yesterday, so I’m not surprised he forwarded this from POPULAE INFORMATION author Judd Legum: On Tuesday, Popular Information reported that Sinclair Broadcast Group injected deceptive attacks on Biden’s age into dozens of local news broadcasts. Sinclair owns or operates 186 local news … Read more
I couldn’t get out of the way of the tsunami of alerts that hit just after lunch yesterday afternoon. To top it all off, I was yet again battling crippling migraines that I needed to double down on over-the-counter and quickly refilled prescription meds just to even be able to stay focused enough to see … Read more
I won’t lie; the fact that it was a chance to scarf a little wine and cheese at the end of the month, when my bank account is dipping below three figures, was a good deal of the motivation why I actually pursued what seemed to a random invite from a business colleague who’s now … Read more
As if the Kansas City Chiefs needed it, yet another one of the players for their back-to-back Super Bowl championship team has become a household name. Until he was given the opportunity to speak to graduating students at a conservative college in Kansas, Harrison Butker was perhaps best known as a kicker who’d occasionally bail … Read more
I missed the Vietnam War era on my college campus by a few years. I didn’t have anyone like Hanoi Jane nor Abbie Hoffman. But I did have Mike and Hugo. Mike and Hugo were the closest things to activists on my frigid campus. Mike also happened to have been elected student body president the … Read more
One of the more common derogatory acronyms for the University of Southern California is the University of Spoiled Children. Per US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, the average annual cost for a student’s tuition, room and board and books is approxmiately $82,500, which gets reduced to an average of about $40,000 after need-based aid. That’s for … Read more
Yesterday was the 54th anniversary of Earth Day, an event that these days all but goes unnoticed except by those truly as invested in the cause as the 20 million who took to the streets to make their views on the environmental crisis known. New York City Mayor John Lindsay even consented to give them … Read more
I’ve always had a soft spot for National Public Radio, even though I admit I rarely listen to it these days. But long before cable and satellite options proliferated NPR, much like its television counterpart PBS, provided a welcome alternative voice and a listening environment that I often equated to a zen garden. My small … Read more