Here She Comes To Save The Day!!!

Here She Comes To Save The Day!!!

Two struggling news entities made headlines yesterday.  One’s struggling with ratings among old men in general as well as credibility, one with challenges to their  credibility and a couple of lawsuits from one particularly thin-skinned old man.  While you may not remember Mighty Mouse, I’m pretty sure they do.  Maybe you saw his most recent … Read more

Small Mouth Bass

Small Mouth Bass

MEMO TO:  THE HONORABLE (!) KAREN BASS FR: STEVE LEBLANG, MEDIA CONSULTANT RE: MEDIA TRAINING Hi again, Madame Mayor. Yes, again.  Our paths have crossed before.  When you were running for Diane Watson’s vacated Congressional seat in 2010 you and your handlers made it a point to knock on every door on my block in … Read more

The Billionaire Boys Liars’ Club?

The Billionaire Boys Liars’ Club?

I regularly post these musings to several social media platforms each day, if for no other reason than to optimize reach.  Methinks maybe aggregate enough followers by being shared by some who are moved enough to do so for potential advertisers to take notice.  When I was first exposed to third party website measurement via … Read more

The ShowS Must Go On

The ShowS Must Go On

NOTE:  This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.thedoubleovertime.com.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus articles on technology. There was a pretty darn good college football game played yesterday.  THE ATHLETIC’s Matt Baker enthusiastically provided details late yesterday: Notre Dame used a swarming defense and 54-second scoring … Read more

Joyless To The World?

Joyless To The World?

If I appear even snarkier and surlier of late than usual, and I freely admit my usual level is well above sea level, that may be because at a time of a year when many of you are looking forward to bonuses, tax refunds and possibly even raises I learned earlier this week that my … Read more

The Bullies Always Want Lunch Money

The Bullies Always Want Lunch Money

I hadn’t thought much about Gary the Veeper in recent years, even in my loneliest and more nostalgia-filled moments.  One tries to bury sources of childhood torment as deeply as possible. Gary lived in my neighborhood, though we were hardly friends.  Gary had few friends, mostly swaggering his way through classes with bravado that his … Read more

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