The press/Trump sniping made me think of the “Pick-a-Little” song from “The Music Man,” and so I thought you would enjoy seeing it. Hey, I was raised on those musicals, so that’s the way my mind sometimes works. There’s a … Continue reading →
I’m not so very interested in an incident that seems to be absorbing people so heavily this days, in which an actor in the Broadway show “Hamilton” made a condescending speech from the stage around curtain call time suggesting that … Continue reading →
I don’t. Ann Althouse succinctly states my take on this election: To me, the election is a horror show, and it doesn’t matter whether I go down into the cellar or jump out the window. A monster will grab me. … Continue reading →
Not just O’Conner, but Stapleton too. And the script. All brilliant, I think. People remember Archie as a buffoon, and the show as a comedy. But it was much more than that, and the acting was superb:
Continue reading →Some read detective novels for escape, but I’ve never cared for them. Some gamble, some drink, some look at porn online. My vice is a bit different: every now and then I follow a reality TV show. I’ve written about … Continue reading →
You’ve probably heard about Christy Sheats, 42, the Texas mother who recently killed her 17- and 22-year-old daughters in front of their father, citing as her motivation a desire to punish him (she committed the murders on his birthday). The … Continue reading →
I noticed a lot of talk about Scotland and the Scots in several threads recently, so I thought it might be time to put up a video of one of my favorite SNL running bits:
Continue reading →…to Corey Lewandowski. NOTE: For those of you who don’t get the “buh-bye” reference, it’s from this 1994 Saturday Night Live sketch (I can’t find the whole thing to embed; this is just excerpts): [ADDENDUM: Here’s a link to the … Continue reading →
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve taken to watching the TV program “Forensic Files,” often as background while I’m writing or reading online. I used to use cable news stations for that purpose, but no more. I haven’t watched a single … Continue reading →
Bias, anyone? I uniformly hate these “fictionalized looks” at history.
Continue reading →Patty Duke has died at the age of 69. A star actress even as a child, she had in some ways a difficult road, with mental illness (manic-depression) that eventually got under control, which enabled a long marriage and apparently … Continue reading →
I don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh—or to any talk shows, actually—often. But I’ve listened now and then, often enough—to Limbaugh and also to Mark Levin—to get a basic feel for both of them. For example, I’ve noticed that for about … Continue reading →