May 16, 2024 – Well, this IS dreary.How the heck am I supposed to get through the election if Mondavi goes under? You all know what that 1.5L means to me during a debate.CA wine industry up against increasing cost of doing business in CA - just like other businesses. Energy, Insurance, Water, Transportation,...

May 16, 2024 – We've long known Mexico is not our friend. From Vicente Fox telling W that the US was Mexico's "pressure relief valve" to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's flat-out blackmail for more money and visas in return for doing their part on their side of the border on immigration enforcement, administration after...

May 16, 2024 – Have you seen all those news reports lately about how expensive fast food has gotten? Reporters don't have to look far to find someone whining about what it costs to eat at McDonald's and, hard left sycophants that they are, the amazing thing is they ARE looking.You could have knocked...

May 16, 2024 – When I was stationed at El Toro many decades ago, "Irvine" was just beginning to blossom into Donald Bren's - chairman of the Irvine Ranch Company - vision of the Mediterranean on the West Coast. The east side of I-5 was nothing but glorious groves of oranges that ran all...

May 17, 2024 – Juuuussssttttt spitballin' here, but it certainly seems like we have an answer for Egypt's extraordinary pissiniss about Israel's plans to clear out Rafah.I have to admit, this was the favored line of thinking over the past few weeks as the Biden administration sabotaged every Israeli move, and the Egyptians blustered and...

May 8, 2024 – Yeesh. Sometimes I think Republicans are just so desperate for a pretty face that doesn't mean tweet, they'll fall all over themselves elevating - and defending - the exact opposite of what they supposedly want. They get cleaned bowled over by a bad case of goo-goo eyes.This business with the...

May 22, 2024 – Kind of an interesting discussion blew up out of a chart I put up on Facebook that I'd gotten from an X tweet. It was a five-year illustration of the increase in fast-food prices from a couple of the major chains. The numbers seemed to be pretty legit, and so...

Jul 3, 2024 – None of this post-debate mess is a surprise to anyone with half a brain, functioning eyeballs, or any media member with a marginally functioning sense of integrity...I KID, I KID about that last one.Because there doesn't seem to be any such creature. I have even seen people whose brains have...

Jul 3, 2024 – Summer is here, and we've established that we're boiling away in the hottest summer ever, ever, EH-VAH.Let's just get that part over with.WIDESPREAD 5/5 on @ClimateCentral Climate Shift Index through Sunday. This heatwave is almost impossible without climate change.‼️ This isn’t a normal summer heatwave.➡️ We’re living through historic & exceptional...

Jul 3, 2024 – Some people just can't take 'non' for an answer, can they?When they tallied up the votes Sunday evening in the snap elections called by France's unpopular diminutive president Emmanuel Macron, it seemed the establishment's worst nightmare had come to pass. In the first round of voting, "right-wing" firebrand Marine LePen's...

Jul 4, 2024 – Man, I love the Fourth of July—even when there are on-and-off showers and then the sun finally comes out and makes it steamy.It's OUR day, our US of A day - the day WE took and no one can take from us.And I'll be damned if I'm the one who...

Jun 27, 2024 – Okay, my darlings - DAMN. That's all I can say. I've been in that overwhelmed comment section trying to catch up with you all while listening to major dad on the couch (who was supposed to be asleep) HOWLING at CNN positively MELTING DOWN over Biden's horrible, terrible, really suck-ass debate...

Jun 28, 2024 – One thing I noticed, post-debate last night, while I was in the middle of glorying over that spectacular CNN meltdown and also trying to get snaps of the hysterical chyrons.OH NOES CONCERNSThis was the best one, though.I LOVE THE SMELL OF AGGRESSIVE PANIC IN THE MORNINGIt's so unsurprising that the...

Jun 28, 2024 – Since the murderous and barbaric October 7 invasion by Hamas, Israel has been on a war footing. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) went into action immediately, even as reserves were being called up in unprecedented numbers. They had to fill out the ranks of what had been, for many years,...

Jun 28, 2024 – Such a cheery place, the Windy City.Where the haves and the have-nots live in a constant state of friction between those whose lives are spent ducking bullets from criminals and those who want to keep criminals on the street in the name of social justice.Take Cook County District Attorney Kim...

Jul 5, 2024 – It's been almost three weeks since word upscale and independent electric vehicle automaker Fisker announced it was going into bankruptcy. Talks with Nissan about an investment collapsed, which put a further financial crimp on the company, as its other, "secret" investor - whose money was contingent on the Nissan deal...

Jul 5, 2024 – This past Monday, a federal judge in Louisiana did something that went relatively unheralded with all the post-debate brouhaha about our vegetable-in-chief and, to a lesser extent, the SCOTUS immunity ruling which also dropped the same morning.Judge James Cain of the Western District of Lousiana put the Biden administration's pause on...

Jul 5, 2024 – It's not like they really had a choice the way their system is set up and the almost total lack of appreciable differences between the two main parties. The 'conservative' Tories had held the reins of power for 14 increasingly shaky years, the last two under the inept and effete...

Feb 26, 2025 – What's more amazing is that unlike the Biden years, when they couldn't wait to brag about their big plans...Where does Team Biden find these characters? Like the Disinfo Czar lady, this one seems like from Central Casting....— James Bovard (@JimBovard) May 6, 2022...which then turned out to be so far-fetched,...

Feb 26, 2025 – Yes, I feel like I've been banging away on the United Kingdom forever and day now.I almost wish the fledgling fascists of Labour would give me a bit of a break, and then, just when I think I'm going to get one - BOOM.They do something so appallingly awful, something...

Feb 24, 2025 – One of our favoritest movies on Earth and a holiday tradition in our house is Christmas in Connecticut, with Dennis Morgan and Barbara Stanwyck, along with an absolutely unforgettable cast backing them up. Everyone is a treasure.One of our favorite lines from the movie sprung immediately to mind when I...

Feb 24, 2025 – Yeah - if you're looking for plain-spoken, old-time American business frankness, you don't have to look any further than J.P. Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon.I mean, he could blister a rock when he gets going. For example, the hurt he laid on his employees listening to his return-to-office rant.HOLY CRAPThis was...

Feb 25, 2025 – It's not as if the United Kingdom as it stands right now isn't a depressing enough place that the base of the cliffs of Dover shouldn't be covered with bodies flung off the ledges above.I mean, it really is a dystopian nightmare of proportions almost that bad.'Almost' being the operative...

Mar 10, 2025 – Man.Democrats are going to be wandering in the wilderness fo-EH-vah at this rate.There's this fellow named Mahmoud Khalil, who has been a busy little guy on college campuses all over New York protesting about Palestine, marching for Hamas and against Israel in what might be termed an aggressive fashion, and...

Mar 11, 2025 – The WNBA is to basketball what EVs are to cars - if you like them, great, but most people either don't or are supremely indifferent.If you watch them/want one, awesome - but the vast majority of people don't.The concept is terrific, but can it stand on its own two feet...