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From Chicken Noodle To…Well, Chicken.
I admit to having a soft spot for CNN, and it’s not just because of the three years I spent with their parent company just after the first Gulf War turned what was even internally referred to as Chicken Noodle News into an indispensable and valued always-on resource for breaking news and vital information. They
Has The Academy Forgotten About Its Audience?
The Oscar nominations are finally out, delayed a couple of weeks because of some minor annoyances like a few unprecedented fires that may or may not have disrupted the process of Academy voters actually doing the necessary work to watch the works of those that have attracted acclaim, buzz and earlier awards. It sure seems
The Truth Is Out There Somewhere
I’m honestly doing my best to try and remain objective and indifferent as the second term of DJT unfolds. I realize that’s hardly an approach that’s winning me any brownie points with anyone, and it’s increasingly clear the Maginot lines are being drawn even starker and becoming more cemented between partisan sides. My roommate is
Heil Eventually Grow Out Of This Awkward Phase. But What About His Enablers?
I’m sure for those of you not proactive enough to completely avoid your social media accounts were as unable as I was to avoid the degree of aghast and abhorrence that was turned on Elon Musk in the wake of what TIME’s Chad De Guzman described in his account of the events of Monday in
Lives From New York, It’s 940+ Saturday Nights
Like so many of you who apparently weren’t Jonesing to the celebration of whim and oligarchy that took place in frigid Washington, D.C. yesterday, a distraction was more needed than usual. Fortunately some astute folks at Peacock apparently foresaw that, or simply wanted to take advantage of a winter holiday weekend to showcase their latest
Hail To The Friggin’ Chief
Depending upon when you’re reading this, we are either a scant few hours away from or a scant few hours into the second coming of President Donald J. Trump. No, I’m not thrilled about it either. When he defiantly removed his mask after battling COVID in the fall of 2020 at a time when more
Tik Tok?! No!!!!!
I’m kinda hoping you may be a newcomer to these musings this morning because, if I’m to believe the self-reported statistics I’m being inundated with, there’s a heapin’ helpin’ of y’all who have one less online destination to wile away some of your Sunday morning with. CBS NEWS’ Caitlin Yilek was one of the many
At Long Last, Severance Returns To The Office
At a time when any shred of good news is like manna from heaven, leave it to the cultural zeitgeist experts at Apple TV+ to provide it by dropping the premiere of a second season of SEVERANCE. It’s been almost three years since its subscribers first got a glimpse of it and for its rabid
Fare Thee Well, Mr. Baseball
NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, www.TheDoubleOvertime.com. Please visit it regularly for extended coverage of sports of all sorts plus articles on technology. The Good Lord timed Bob Uecker’s demise as ideally as possible if one has to accept its inevitability–in the dead of winter and after one last title celebration, with