Contrary to what many of you might be inclined to believe, I am very, very often incorrect about what I believe to be accurate. I do tend to push back when I am challenged by someone else calling it to my attention, mostly because on many of those numerous occasions it turns out that indeed … Read more
Just when you think the Republican candidate for President can’t sink any lower on the depths of objective human decency, along comes a performance like the one he offered up yesterday that reminds you that he most certainly can. As no less than FOUR Reuters journalists–Bianca Flowers, Trevor Hunnicutt, Nathan Layne and Nandita Bose gang-reported: … Read more
It was a newsworthy story, to be sure, but it didn’t necessarily need a well-known author to tell the world about it. In fact, it took two somewhat obscure PEOPLE staffers, Stephanie Wenger and JP Mangalindan, to author this yesterday: Norah O’Donnell is stepping down as anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News following the 2024 presidential … Read more
When the news broke Sunday that has evolved into Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive eleventh hour choice of the Democratic party to seek the presidency, some of my snarkier social media connections immediately went into tabloid and grade school mode. Some saw this as confirmation of what a good friend of mine calls the “power … Read more
The more this wacky, unpredictable and utterly exasperating presidential campaign summer drags on, the more difficult it becomes to understand why so many high-salaried and supposedly auspiced individuals appear increasingly incapable of taking some sort of action that might instill confidence from anyone other than blind faith devotees. The most recent chain of events that … Read more
So now we know who the future of America is, at least according to those who feverishly believe it has been preordained by the Lord Almighty. Yesterday afternoon it was announced that J.D. Vance, not yet 40, barely a year and a half into his career of public service, was anointed to become the chosen … Read more
Lately, not a day seems to go by where my roommate doesn’t offer his thoughts on exactly when Joe Biden will abdicate what he and his enablers believe is his throne to be the savoir of democracy. He seems to react to every eye-rolling “fact check” from both mainstream and biased media on Biden’s latest … Read more
By my count, there are now at least three senior citizens of some prominence who are incapable of accurately understanding what the court of public opinion actually thinks about them. One, of course, is the presumptive Republican candidate for the presidency, that esteemed golfing legend who lovingly referenced his opponent as a “broken down pile … Read more
Usually, the only night of television less devoid of anything worthy of watching beyond the 4th of July is the 5th of July. At least the 4th has been dominated by the Macy’s spectaculars, giving NBC a pyrrhic victory for little more investment than a bunch of cameras aimed at the sky. The 5th is … Read more
I’ve really been trying to avoid the almost nonstop cycle of spin, defensiveness and bravado that has dominated the news cycle since the debat-cle of Thursday night. My roommate is positively stunned at what he perceives as completely blind arrogance on the part of the Democratic party and has relentlessly barraged me with alert after … Read more