I may not be the brightest tube that years ago needed a few minutes to warm up to light up my television screen, but I thought I knew my way around my DISH Network satellite dish. Right off you can tell my background in electronics started many, many up-grades ago. A television tube is a lovely antiquated glass thing that in today’s world is heavier than even an 80-inch … [Read more...]
It’s not just smoke anymore
I could fill this whole column – and a few more to boot – recounting Hunter Biden’s wild prostitute binges and his pathetic attempts to cover them up. Telling the IRS that a $10,000 sex club fee was a “golf membership”? C’mon, man. That ain’t gonna work. The indictment of the president’s son last week on federal charges in California laid bare years of drugs, sex and … [Read more...]
I Love Lucy: Open the Golden Door
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me / I lift my lamp beside the golden door” --Emma Lazarus Given the current state of current affairs, isn’t it sobering to note the poet’s last name? We can use a bit of resurrection. Of my America. And … [Read more...]
The blue box
It’s Christmas time. A time of good cheer, merriment and warm fuzzy feelings. I do not forget the reason for the season. The birth of my Savior. But I also am inclined to enjoy the warmth of all that the season offers. Friends, family, food, frivolity and--decorating. More so in years past, but still I trudge out to the storage shed and retrieve the priceless family … [Read more...]
In the cocoon of our unhealthy cartoon
Singing satirist Tom Lehrer got it right: Satire died that day Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (See below.) These days, we are forced to live within the cocoon of an endless cartoon loop that would dizzy even the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. Instance in point: Health care is now dangerous to your health, physically and financially, not necessarily in … [Read more...]
Is this you? Let the cold turkey sandwich wars begin
Now that the big November day has passed and we are into left overs about a week, let’s talk turkey. Sandwiches, cold turkey sandwiches. If you are above a certain age, you should remember Dagwood, from the comic strip Blondie. Ole Dagwood could make the biggest stuffed sandwiches imaginable. The Dagwood Hero has roots that can only be said to be “belly busters.” Is that … [Read more...]
Oh, those offensive bird names!
I am not a bird watcher. I am a human watcher and that brings me to the same place today: Offensive Bird Names. The American Ornithological Society – and I promise you I am not making this up – has announced that it will rename all species of birds honoring people. Why? The New York Times explained it this way: Bird names derived from people can be harmful, exclusive and … [Read more...]
Bonfire of the Vampires
“Capitalism without regulation is tyranny” -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. If wealth connotes wisdom, then Rupert Murdoch is easily one of the wisest men in the world. Especially the “con” part. “Americans are retarded,” he smarmed decades ago as he was customizing his money-vacuuming media machine. Zounds. The America which evolved after he said that has indeed lived … [Read more...]