Last Sunday was the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, and you know what that means: neo-neocon brings you the fashion news, to make you forget all your woes. At first I thought Kaley Cuoco looked dreadful as well as weird: … Continue reading →
Henry Kissinger said it, not me: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Case in point: Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do “anything we can do” to help the industry he often baited during the presidential … Continue reading →
The title of this post is hyperbole on two counts: Trump is not yet president, and of course he’s not being impeached. He’s being pre-impeached, and I’m using the word “impeached” in the more general sense: 2. Chiefly Law. to … Continue reading →
Like a fine wine.
Continue reading →I was told this is the last day to ship packages ground mail and get them there by Christmas. As I’ve gotten older, holiday gift-giving has become more challenging. I don’t have all that many gifts to buy to begin … Continue reading →
…(which I was)…yesterday I was in a jewelry store and a truly ghastly Christmas carol wafted through the air. It sounded like someone’s drunken uncle. It sounded a bit like Tom Waits, but not quite. “Is that Bob Dylan?” I … Continue reading →
…may have brought down an EgyptAir plane last May: TTraces of explosives have been found on the bodies from the EgyptAir crash in May ”” suggesting that the plane was bombed out of the sky by terrorists, according to several … Continue reading →
Since the election, Trump has been dominating the news even more than he did when he was merely campaigning, and that’s saying a lot. I’m not talking about straight news like his Cabinet appointments. I’m talking about all the hype … Continue reading →
…is that you get away from the incessant repetitive Christmas music playing in so many stores. I think the people who work in retail are driven crazy by it, too. This year I’ve noticed one particular earwormy song playing over … Continue reading →
It’s minor, but it bugs me anyway. An accretion of this sort of thing is how false memes (left or right) are created and reinforced until they become Truths, whether they’re true or not. Some are a lot more important … Continue reading →
It was inevitable, of course, that the MSM would mount this attack on Trump’s legitimacy, particularly their leader and still champ (despite its financial woes) the NY Times. They didn’t acknowledge the possibility of a Trump win. Now they are … Continue reading →
…for your holiday gifts. Sorry to be a nag—but I’m a gentle nag, aren’t I? Is that an oxymoron?
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