Just the Facts, Ma’am

  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

It IS a Mental Health Problem

  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

Random Thoughts on a Sunday Morning

  In Mueller We Trust Once again, Robert Mueller has shown he is several steps ahead of public officials and journalists.  The quickness with which he has filed initial indictments took most by surprised.  In an effort to catch up with the #realnews, cable news outlets have spent the last 48 hours speculating about arrests … Read more

if…

  In what is largely remembered as Malcolm McDowell’s film debut, Lindsay Anderson’s 1968 cult classic if… tells the story of a dystopian English private school in which the students forcefully take on the administration.  No, I’m not suggesting the resistance take up lethal weapons.  But as you’ll see at the end of the post, it … Read more

Moore Trouble Than It’s Worth

  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