Geewillikers Batman! No melarkey? Heavy-hitting local leaders are telling people to avoid our superspreader bus system? Have the powerful finally figured out that the great unwashed are human, too? Not quite. But even backhanded support is better than no support at all. KOLO TV-8 is airing a spot with a bunch of local luminaries begging people to stay home on New Year’s … [Read more...]

Probably the most iconic American columnist of all time was San Francisco’s Herb Caen.  He is widely credited with developing a journalistic style that became known as Three Dot Journalism.  In essence, he set the bar for columnists around the country.   I was fortunate enough to interface with Herb on many occasions during my time at The Mapes … [Read more...]

I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish pain and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear They said there’ll be snow at Christmas They said there’ll be peace on Earth Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell The Christmas we get we deserve Sen. Mitch McConnell resembles the latter remark. Doonesbury cartoonist Garry … [Read more...]

It was hard to tell last week which story was the major story coming out of Washington DC.  We had Hunter Biden, Eric Swalwell and the distribution of the vaccine to fight Covid.  Let’s start with Hunter because every day a new revelation about him hits the news.  We have often bemoaned the fact that we do not have a sleuth like Sherlock Holmes around … [Read more...]

“How are you going to overlook the murders of six million people?” - Spencer Tracy in “Judgment at Nuremberg” That line from the classic 1961 film has saturated my consciousness for a month. More than 71,000,000 voters punched Donald Trump’s ticket. Average people, pundits, proselytizers, pretenders and poltroons have all overly examined the whys and wherefores. Last … [Read more...]

Several years ago Frank Sinatra made a serious movie entitled “The Manchurian Candidate”, which told the tale of how American prisoners of war were hypnotized and subject to mind control after they returned home.  Today we have a different type of control developed by the Chinese, wherein they use money and sex to influence our democrat politicians. An example of this came … [Read more...]

“We just come to work here, we don’t come to die.” - Union longshoreman and labor songwriter Harry Stamper As I noted last week and countless times before, corporations that knowingly kill people deserve the death penalty. My latest nominees for liquidation include disgraced jetliner manufacturer Boeing and Oxycontin drug dealer Purdue Pharma. Alas and alack, they … [Read more...]