For fun
How to walk downstairs with some zip in your step, by James Cagney (aka George M. Cohan): As a child, I loved that scene. In particular, I liked the fact that it builds to a peak and then calms down … Continue reading →
Yearly Archives: 2018
Is this the end of the FBI?
I certainly don’t think this is the end of the FBI. One of the problems with the last ten or so (or more) years is that Americans are somewhat like the frog that’s boiled so slowly it doesn’t notice [see … Continue reading →
Aha! It had to happen—the real Onion weighs in on Comey
Just a few hours ago I wrote about some of the news du jour as being too much like the Onion for comfort. One of those news items was Comey’s interviews and book, about which I said: Oh, how the … Continue reading →
The Not-The-Onion news of the day
Look, I take my humor wherever I can find it these days. Even if it’s in the real, live, very unfake news. And even if that unfake news sounds like the sort of fake news that used to air only … Continue reading →
Andrew McCabe: leaks, lies, and IG reports
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to the FBI not once, but over and over and over (or “lacked candor,” which is quite the euphemism). The number of self-serving lies McCabe told (as well as some well-placed leaks), the … Continue reading →
Still another demonstration of the fact that liberals think it’s perfectly okay to be racist towards black conservatives
They’re Uncle Toms, or minstrels, or whatever the epithet du jour is. And this somehow proves that it’s those on the right who are the racists. The logic is impeccable. Bree Newsome, an artist and activist, described [Diamond and Silk, … Continue reading →
Me and TurboTax, TurboTax and me
Every year around this time I’m busy with my taxes. I like to joke that I may just be the person in the US with the highest ratio of tax complexity to income, because although I don’t make much money … Continue reading →
Roundup: McCabe; Cohen
Lately there have been so many big news stories each day that there’s no way a single person can write about all of them. So I’m going to weasel out of this one (for now, anyway) and refer you to … Continue reading →
Red lines in Syria: if Russia really wanted Trump to win the election…
…they certainly didn’t get their money’s worth: U.S. and allied warships and warplanes in the eastern Mediterranean launched a fiery barrage of missiles at multiple military targets in Syria to punish the Russian-backed government in Damascus for its alleged use … Continue reading →
Doing a 180 on NIMBY in LA and Seattle
The city of Los Angeles is hoping that some people will say YIMBY—“Yes! In my backyard!”—to the homeless, for pay: In August, the county Board of Supervisors approved a $550,000 pilot program to build a handful of small backyard houses, … Continue reading →
Trump pardons Scooter Libby
Here’s the story. I bet Trump has gained increased sympathy in recent months for those caught up in a politically vindictive net and charged with “process” crimes. Libby was certainly one of them. Libby’s sentence had already been commuted by … Continue reading →
Why does hip-hop music get a pass from the #MeToo movement?
Good question, I think. And it’s one being asked by Gabriel Hays in this article: For the week of March 31st, 2018, eight of the top 20 songs in Billboard’s “R&B/Hip-Hop” chart were blatantly sexist and misogynistic. In these songs, … Continue reading →