Aug 15, 2024 – Well, shiver me timbers - and not because I'm worried. More because the anticipation is killing me.What the heck is Chicago gonna look like come Monday and the start of the Democratic National Convention?Mayor Brandon Johnson's general unsuitability for any job more onerous than lavatory attendant had already lent this...

Aug 15, 2024 – Sheesh. I always really liked her.Yeah, she's gorgeous and all that boring stuff (besides being married to former NFL q-back Christian Ponder), but she's, like, so smart, knows dah foosball, and she's so normal.For the...ExtraSensitivePencilNecks...running the uber-woke, flailing, AWFL-bimbo-sprinkled Disney enterprise that was a real woman too far.BREAKING: ESPN has *FIRED* @samponder,...

Aug 16, 2024 – All signs point to a rousing, rowdy time in the Windy City starting on Monday for the Democratic National Convention.Business owners near the convention center and around the loop seem like "ye of little faith" in the mayor's ability to control the incoming protesters, judging by the way one local...

Aug 15, 2024 – ...Oh, how angry Nantucket must be!(With apologies to "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean")So far, well...they're pretty pissed, along with many other former bleeding blue progressive-voting New England wind advocates.The mood is decidedly sour after a month of little progress on addressing the Vineyard Wind blade failure and its aftermath.Vineyard...

Aug 26, 2024 – The crisis of accountability.It's been three years.It seems like yesterday...and then sometimes it seems like forever ago.Watching as Afghanistan collapsed around the Baghdad Bobs in the Biden administration, whose talking heads from TV briefing rooms gave lie to the horrific scenes coming out of Kabul in the frantic, terrifying chaos...

Aug 26, 2024 – Now, believe me. I don't want to interfere with anyone's "away" time...Joe Biden departs from his 6 day vacation in Santa Ynez, California to his 9 day vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.Kamala is in hiding.The country is on auto-pilot.pic.twitter.com/Y1aA9UefvW— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) August 25, 2024...or "RUNNING AWAY" time, as it were...

Aug 26, 2024 – For all the joy being peddled by Cacklin' Kamala and the Fascist Fabulist, they're not really all that "fun." For all the rewriting of contemporary history to wipe away those unsightly burps in their resumes that either frighten voters, anger them immensely, or cause such fits of hilarity that take...

Aug 26, 2024 – I thought I'd end the day with a look at the state of the campaign ads since I hadn't done that for a bit.Not to mention, I'm getting all sorts of Harris texts. As it's irking me enormously, so I hope the Trump campaign is building on their small, quiet...

Aug 27, 2024 – WIGGLE WIGGLE SQUIRMAh, the twists and turns of the Harris campaign.It doesn't help that she's a coy, shy creature. Such fleeting glimpses of her are seen that she's almost mythical - a Kamala in the wild.Flitting from rare event to event.  Stringently orchestrating venues so Harris only has to stride...

Aug 21, 2024 – Home buying and home ownership, particularly in California, have buzzed across my radar several times today. Spook that I am, I am going to take that for a sign and write a little about it.The first was this morning when I read an interesting piece in what used to be our...

Aug 22, 2024 – ...and being as insufferably, pretentiously smug as Schlitz about it as ever.Now, I'm not here to say things couldn't use a refresh - no doubt they could. In theory, we're light years away from 1955.Walt Disney Imagineering will remove insensitive racial stereotypes and caricatures of indigenous people from Peter Pan’s...

Aug 16, 2024 – OMG DON'T TEASE ME!The woman is SUCH an unholy freak. How the entire Washington Post newsroom, from the executive editors on down, has been shown the door, given their pink slips and walking papers, while she of the paranoid hypochondriacal mask freakouts and stalking-while-doxxing adventures is still EMPLOYED has remained...

Aug 16, 2024 – HAH!Probably not, because it just happened and I only heard about it in the comments from Jane Gault.When I went looking to see what I could find on it, I was like, "HOLY SMOKES!" Two of my favorite riffs in one story, and good grief, what a story.Things are really...

Aug 2, 2024 – When I was growing up, there was nothing I loved better than having my nose jammed in a book. My allowance, such as it was, went to Nancy Drews, which were disappointingly short when one was a voracious consumer. I read my dad's Louis L'Amour paperbacks from the bookcase in...

Sep 5, 2024 – That attempted robbery on San Francisco 49er wide receiver Ricky Pearsall this past Saturday was pretty shocking. Broad daylight in a ritzy section of downtown and a cocky 17-year-old with a gun who picked the wrong pigeon to pick a Rolex from.San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot in...

Sep 4, 2024 – There's no denyin' the German ruling coalition is still in denial. And they are going to hang onto that rotting piece of timber as long as they possibly can, desperately trying to stay afloat and in power.On Monday, I caught y'all up on the rude shock the elites of the...

Sep 5, 2024 – Like everyone else in the country, I've watched the human tragedy of Kamala Harris's ineptness, incompetence, and criminal negligence as Border Czar scroll across X and news reports from Texas to Georgia and north, east to west. It seems the whole country is enveloped in the putridity of the purposeful Southern...

Sep 5, 2024 – You got to be kidding me.This can't possibly be real.Man couldn’t swing an Ed.D., the most bogus doctorate outside of journalism. Maybe he didn’t want to upstage Jill Biden. Luther Ray Abel (@LutherAbel1) September 5, 2024Did he spend too much time in China? Eating donuts?I'm sure there's a logical explanation....

Jan 10, 2024 – Apologies to Freddie Mercury, but HO-LEE-COW, do we have some scaramooches on our hands in Georgia if there is anything to the current rumors. The kleptocratic carnal clown show has commenced. Front and center in this blooming onion of a stink bomb is the disputatious District Attorney for...

Jan 10, 2024 – Sure sounds like it’s not showtime anymore at Amazon and the dreaded, weirdly worded “executive memo to the hired help” was the first clue things were headed into sign-off territory. …“Our industry continues to evolve quickly and it’s important that we prioritize our investments for the long-term success of...

Jan 10, 2024 – I have to say I’m not sure what in particular it is that’s not getting the message across that we mean business. A half-assed coalition cobbled together, an absent Secretary of Defense, a mentally absent POTATUS, a lack of any sort of offensive action in response to whatever Houthis do,...

Jan 9, 2024 – So the pullback in ESG firms continues, eh? John had a post in December about corporations and campuses who were beginning to get pushback on their DEI initiative. BlackRock was one of those named, doing some verbiage shuffling to avoid legal challenges, among other problems besetting the grievance...

Jan 9, 2024 – ‘Scuse me as I readjust my conspiracy hat here. The back strap’s gotten so stretched it was starting to slip, and I definitely need the thing snugged down to digest the rest of this bit of news. And, yes, the Daily Mail seems to be caught in a bit...

Jan 9, 2024 – Philadelphia’s “Welcome Park” sits on the location of William Penn’s home in that city – known as the Slate Roof House. The park is literally named for the vessel that brought the colonial Quaker to the site of what became Philadelphia, the good ship Welcome. Penn, as hopefully most...

Jan 8, 2024 – Ay Dios mio, this is bad news. United Airlines said Monday that it has found loose bolts on door plugs of several Boeing 737 Max 9 planes during inspections spurred when a panel of that type blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet last week....