I'm not sure why Texas is the center of the New Amurrika, or whatever the right-wingers intend to call the place. The dystopian sci fi I've read usually places the new capitol of the U.S. in Denver, presupposing a...
It may truly be time to throw in the towel on democracy and I'll tell you why. George Orwell predicted that the masses could be controlled by mass communication. You remember the telescreen from "1984?" And now there's one...
It used to be that political scandals came in different shapes and sizes. One politician would have movie star mistresses stashed away, another one would have an affair with an intern, another would decide he had to break into...
I remember one time seeing an extraordinary chocolate sundae. It had layers. It started out with a layer of rocky road ice cream, then there was a chocolate mousse ice cream on top of that, Then actual hot fudge...
I remember when I first moved to Los Angeles in the late seventies a friend said to me, "Don't talk to people about sex, politics or religion, or you'll get into a fight." Politics and religion have always been...
A lot of very very strange stuff shows up on Parler. Most of it seems to come from parody accounts but after years of reading comments from right-wing trolls, both here and elsewhere, I can tell you that these...
This saddens me. Yes, Joe Manchin is a singular being. If you didn't know he had a D behind his name, you certainly wouldn't guess it just by listening to him. But even for Manchin, it's a bridge too...
No Labels has folded up its tent and gone home, but RFK Jr. is pressing forward with his Presidential bid. Debate about whether his role as a spoiler (and that's all his candidacy will do, play spoiler) will hurt...
P.T. Barnum was not a cynic, he was a visionary. He had a rare grasp of human nature. Let us repeat his wisdom here once again, before we watch it being demonstrated in the clip below. Repeat after me,...
That sound of hoofbeats that you hear, fast and furious, is the sound of the Durham nothing burger assuming gargantuan proportions and charging across the airwaves. If Sidney Powell were here, she would call it The Kraken. Get used...
