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Life Lessons

Whoah, We’re Halfway Where?!?!

At just after midnight, I flipped my calendar over to the side where the pages now turn in the other direction.  And then I threw up half of my dinner. I suppose I should be a tad more grateful than I’m capable of being this morning for officially making it to the second half of

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News Notions

Can Jillary Save Democracy?

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

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Life Lessons

Plenty of Questions. Far Fewer Answers.

I fully realize an awful lot of people are panicked after the events of Thursday night.  That hue and cry grew only louder when a far more robust and hale version of the man who stuttered and fumbled his way through 90 embarrassing minutes proudly and defiantly addressed a partisan crowd yesterday which HUFFPOST’s S.V.

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Media Musings

Bring On The Trump Movie. Reality Doesn’t Seem To Matter.

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

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Media Musings

This Debate Will Be Watched By Millions. And Might Influence Dozens.

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

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Media Musings

They Couldn’t Bear To Make Us Wait

The braintrust at FX has seemed to have its finger on the pulse of exactly what a great deal of America wants and needs for decades.  Never has that intuitive flair been more in evidence than this week. For weeks, they were set on a Thursday, June 27th release date for Season 3 of THE

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Media Musings

They’re Still Tooning In

On the calendar, it’s a Tuesday morning in 2024.  To legions of eagerly anticipating Boomers, Xers and cartoon lovers, it’s a Saturday morning in some year from long ago, where the biggest worry you may have had was whether or not you would find the 3-D card or the toy you had hoped for inside

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Media Musings

Second Week? Or Second Coming?

It’s bad enough that we can’t seem to find a truly objective source for news about politics or sports in this day and age.  But that truth now seems to be spreading to even the rather mundane world of entertainment journalism. I’m a regular reader of THE HOT BUTTON, the daily newsletter from veteran movie

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Media Musings

At Least HE Deserved To Be Called Mr. President

I’m yet again saddened by the passing of someone I had the chance to know and admire from up close, and considering this one came out of seeming nowhere and was far too soon it’s especially unnerving.  On an otherwise quiet and unbearably hot summer Saturday VARIETY’s Michael Schneider was among the many who reported

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