The Deshaun Disgrace
The view from New Orleans on the Deshaun Watson freak show. Continue reading The Deshaun Disgrace
The view from New Orleans on the Deshaun Watson freak show. Continue reading The Deshaun Disgrace
This week: A Fond Farewell, the Bloody Benders, West Ford, the Showtime Lakers, Jonathan Winters, and William Hurt. Music by Ringo Starr, Camper van Beethoven, Colin Hay, REM, Silvia Telles, The Smithereens, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jefferson Airplane. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: Photograph
Dedicated to the King of Swing, Benny Goodman. Continue reading Comes Love (Nothing Can Be Done)
Trump is shocked, shocked to learn that Putin is a warmonger, not a genius. Continue reading Trumpy Making Flippy Floppy
Don’t wanna be an American idiot!
One nation controlled by the new media
Information age of hysteria
It’s calling out to idiot America! Continue reading American Idiots
Why we eat what we eat on St. Patrick’s Day. Continue reading Corned Beef And Cabbage Is Really An Immigrant Tale
Malakatude in the Buckeye state. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Mike Gibbons
St. Patrick’s Day Noir. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Odd Man Out
Former Georgia Bulldog great goes from “how about dem Dawgs?” to “how about dat origin?” Continue reading The Origin Of Herschel Walker
You can tell a lot about people from looking at their priorities. Continue reading Where Are You Now, Jonah Ryan?
The comedy stylings of the late great Jonathan Winters, Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Here’s Jonathan
Of Russian dissidents past and present. Continue reading Broadcast News Courage
We’ve just passed the two year mark since the first national shelter in place order was issued. Time is right to play the blame game. All the usual subjects, plus one or two you might not have thought about. Continue reading 731 Odd Days
Your Monday matinee with Jamie O. Continue reading A Dispatch From Red Ohio
“Let’s drop the big one and see what happens.” Political Science 1972 by Randy Newman. Continue reading Political Science 2022
Reading the Freepers for 14 years so you don’t have to. Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – clown fight edition
The life and times of Tommy T. Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s obsession with random ruminations – Max Headroom edition
Power duo in the basement. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The White Stripes From The Basement
This week: The Godfather at 50, Ward McAllister, The Gilded Age, Lucy and Desi, and fictional presidents. Music by George Harrison Paul McCartney, Wille Nelson, The Waterboys, Utopia, Little Richard, Frank Zappa, James Taylor, and John Lennon. Continue reading Saturday Odds & Sods: All Things Must Pass
Cheers to Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. Continue reading Pick Yourself Up
A new look for First Draft. Continue reading Publisher’s Note: Turn and Face the Strange
Adrastos on Trump’s windmill phobia and how Entergy New Orleans is for the birds. Continue reading The Windmills Of Trump’s Mind
There are monsters in this world. Currently a whole mess of them are killing innocents in Ukraine upon the orders of their master. You don’t negotiate with monsters. You end them. Continue reading Here Be Monsters
Cancel Culture warriors have demonstrated over the past few years that they are terrible at reading the room. For starters, one of the Big Moments in the cancel culture fight was the now rather infamous Harper’s Letter, published and signed by a group of elites, some of whom later regretted it, in the summer of 2020. Imagine during that particular summer, with the George Floyd protests, an increasingly obvious and growing threat to American democracy *being led by the occupant in the White House*, and general fear that maybe the pandemic was the end for us, that was your focus. … Continue reading Cancel Culture Fighters Had Themselves Quite A Week
Marco. Rubio. Marco. Rubio. Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Marco Rubio
Cameras, Curves, and No Conscience. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Over-Exposed
You say French fries, I say Frites. Continue reading You Say Putin, I Say Poutine
I was really interested in the Canadian trucker protest, so when I read that there were American truckers who wanted to imitate it, I was initially worried because of how much Americans love their guns. There was talk of driving into Washington, DC on the day of the State of the Union speech and of driving by the White House to tell President Biden how they felt about mask and vaccine mandates. Washington, DC is shut down pretty securely for the SOTU speech, so the big rally on The Mall turned out about 2 dozen people, most of them there … Continue reading The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being: USA! USA! USA! Edition