Fandango’s Provocative Question #105: Putting the Devil on social media – again I’m not entirely sure they shouldn’t just hang him for treason, so the idea of putting that moron back on social media makes my blood run cold. Which… Read More ›
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AND SO THE WHITEWASH BEGINS
Any number of you wondered when the whitewashing of yesterday’s mob insurrection in Washington D.C. would begin. If you haven’t already heard about it, let me be the first to inform you that the night was not over yet when… Read More ›
A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR
Remember the line from a song in Mary Poppins (the original movie with Julie Andrews) where she sang “Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down?” I remember when Trump was elected saying that once he got… Read More ›
AND THEN CAME CABLE
Judy Dykstra-Brown said she never saw any new movies on television when she was a kid because she lived in the middle of nowhere. I got to thinking about that. I don’t think any of us saw anything “new” or… Read More ›
PEACE TALKS BY JIM BUTCHER
I have waited six years for book sixteen of the Harry Dresden world to be published. I waited patiently. Then, after a while, with less patience. A few months ago, there was a book by Jim Butcher called Spiderman: The… Read More ›
THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE REDUX IN 2020
This is the anniversary of the slaughter at Jonestown. It’s 42 years later and still, we have not learned the lesson that slavishly following lying leaders can be deadly. If nothing else, this has got to be an object lesson… Read More ›
EVERY VOTE MATTERS
I have never missed an election while I have lived in the U.S. I always vote. I vote when I love the candidate, when I wish it were someone — anyone — else. In the end, I’m a liberal and… Read More ›
IN THE STREAMING WORLD, EVERYONE OWNS A PIECE OF EVERYONE ELSE
So Garry wanted to get a show that’s a freebie if you sign up for a new installation of Starz. But we already have Starz, so while they might let you sign up, they won’t give you the teaser freebie… Read More ›
YOU CAN’T EXTRACT XML FILES OF YOUR OWN POSTS EVEN THOUGH YOU “OWN” THEM
After we got through my explaining that it wasn’t because I was trying to export all my files, but actually 10 months — from January 2020 to today — they wanted me to take a picture of it. But you… Read More ›
PLUTOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY? THE UGLY CHOICE OF THIS UPCOMING ELECTION
We live in a country full of shallow, if not outrightly stupid people. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter for more… Read More ›
THE MOST TRUSTED MAN IN AMERICA
“And that’s the way it is” by Rich Paschall With so many questionable sources of news in the world, who do you trust to give you reliable and up to date information? At one time there was a radio, television, newspapers,… Read More ›
IF YOU WANT TO KEEP BLOGGING, AFFORDABLE PLATFORMS EXIST
I really don’t want to stop blogging. Even if I have to use a different computer — like the Mac rather than the PC — or get an iPad or something else. I need to write. It’s not merely what… Read More ›