Some of you may remember Jack Webb as Joe Friday on the television series Dragnet. Friday was a no-nonsense LAPD detective who had no interest in spin. Whenever questioning a witness or suspect, his trademark line was, “Just the facts.” As previously posted, Donald J. Trump declared that the massacre at the First Baptist … Read more
Following the latest mass murder involving a semi-automatic assault weapon, the denier-in-chief took a few minutes to address the situation as reported by NBC News. Asked at a joint press briefing with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe if he would consider pressing for gun control measures in the wake of America’s second mass shooting … Read more
Having been born and raised in the South, I still bristle at some of the unfair stereotypes portrayed in cartoons and movies of anyone who uses the term “y’all” or thinks white sauce with sausage crumbs makes everything taste better. Yet for every Nobel laureate or Pulitzer Prize winner from below the Mason-Dixie line, there … Read more
This weekend I attended my 50th high school reunion. An enlightening experience to say the least. Of the 70+ members of my graduating class in attendance, perhaps 10 percent were immediately recognizable. (Do they have deteriorating portraits of themselves in their attics?) Another 60 percent were the older versions of themselves you might expect–a … Read more
Following Comrade Trump’s tweet in which he referred to his most recent critic as “Liddle’ Bob Corker,” AOL reported: The president (sic) has reportedly remarked on Corker’s size before, telling aides that the 5-foot-7 lawmaker was too short to be his secretary of state, a position that Corker was reportedly in the running for. For me, as … Read more