July 7, 2022

I can't get past the headlines

Opinion articles from the left: "Biden is, actually, doing well" Let's see, Afghanistan withdrawal, picking a needless and dangerous fight with Russia over Ukraine, pain at the pump, gross prices for groceries, immigration meltdow...

June 14, 2022

Barren sloganeering for graduation day

My advice to graduates would be to fit comfortably and profitably into this marvelous temporal gift of life we've been given. However, on Graduation Day, the tedious among us blow up cartoon balloons that say, "Go out there and change the...

June 1, 2022

A liberal remembers the good old days

Speaking of Uvalde in an article titled "Out among the lights with Petula Clark," Marc Dion writes wonderfully of his childhood in a small Massachusetts town.  He reminds me of my own youth, when all was new and yet old — a ...

May 26, 2022

The word no one mentions when discussing school shootings

It happens again and everybody runs to their corner and restates a formerly held position.  Liberals blame guns.  Conservatives want to beef up security. No one asks the central question; why are kids shooting up schools?  Schools a...

January 3, 2022

Informing the electorate in 2022

According to Fox news this weekend, a former Trump staffer named Steve Cortes tweeted a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sans mask in Florida having a drink with her boyfriend.  Cortes, not to be confused with Cortez, wrote: ...

December 3, 2021

What if it isn't the parent's fault?

I sent my daughter off to high school this morning with a blend of regret and fear.  There are threats against schools all over the map of Michigan today — copycats in the wake of the Oxford shootings. This is not a healthy way to ...

November 5, 2021

On the ballot, 'D' is for deadly

Here is a headline: Sen. Steve Sweeney, a longtime Garden State Democrat leader, is trailing Republican challenger Edward Durr by thousands of votes. It says something about America's current electoral system that two days after a race, we can...

November 3, 2021

The rise of personal dictatorships

The little dictators are all around us these days. I watched a short video of “protestors” in Bisbee, Arizona imposing their political ugliness upon the wedding of a young woman because Senator Kristen Sinema was officiating at the cer...

July 19, 2020

Mixing with Steely Dan

The problem with liberals is they spend all of their time thinking politics.  It makes you obsessive and nourishes the seed of stupid.  Let’s take a musical break. I look for music that provides no visual distraction, but that narr...

July 13, 2020

The Sinatra question

Frank Sinatra's first record became a minor hit in 1940.  His fourth or fifth hung out for over twelve weeks at number one.  Tommy Dorsey may have had a hand in that. A supposed U.S. Army file indicated that Sinatra was ...

July 11, 2020

A musician’s guide to the universe

I found a recent question from a piano student worthy of thought; how did the great composers manage to come up with their musical ideas? In a moment like this a teacher has to think on his feet.  First you rephrase the question.  How di...

July 5, 2020

Hey, kid, you wanna buy a guitar?

May I mention how marvelous your comments have been?  So many of you have expressed beautiful thoughts; more handsome because they expand on the subject at hand.  I assure you we are the good people who possess something valuable, something...

July 2, 2020

The personal attack of the piano

I talked about electric guitars and loved the stories you told.  This post is intended as momentary recess from a troubled day; we should go outside and get a little fresh air. With guitar, it's sweetly personal.  You have ...

July 1, 2020

The ups and downs of music

I checked the news — it's all provocative and harsh.  Your enlightening comments help; thanks for the kindness shown.  Yesterday, I wrote about guitars, today the people who fill the life of a musician.  Guitar...

June 30, 2020

Electric guitars and tough decisions

I write about music to offer a fleeting digression from the unhappy news of the day. You should interpret this blog post as well expressed opinion rather than absolute fact.  I recommend a tempo of adagio; you may go off the path for a m...

June 26, 2020

First lessons in silence

I’m writing these blogs about music to provide momentary diversion from the sad lunacy that has gripped the corporate/government /media complex.  If I blog about Jump Jim Crow those readers of nearby bandwidth may recognize a metaphor for ...

June 25, 2020

What is the opposite of Beethoven?

Readers are wondering why the articles about music these days.  It's because I've had enough of the stupid emanating from the left.  Facts may wander, but the impressions are based upon solid structure. There is snobber...

June 23, 2020

Dancing with Beethoven

People are wondering why the articles about music these days.  It's because I've had enough of the stupidity emanating from the left.  These are opinions; I'm not presenting anything as absolute fact. It must have b...

June 21, 2020

In the moment with George Martin

George Martin was producing records in 1950.  He worked his way up the corporate ladder, and in 1962 he was acting as a sort of Principal over a small number of recording studios.  One morning he popped into a booth and asked how the auditi...

June 20, 2020

An appetite for Paul

Paul McCartney was big.  Huge, as DJT might say.  He's way too big for one little blogger to cover in four-hundred odd words.  These are opinions; I'm not presenting anything as absolute fact. He's young a...

June 18, 2020

Guess I'll never be a Starr

The Beatles were big.  Huge, as DJT might say.  They were too big for one little blogger to cover in four-hundred odd words.  Ringo Starr just fit that band perfectly.  What I know about drumming is built upon ...

June 17, 2020

All right, let's talk about George Harrison

The Beatles were big.  Huge, as DJT might say.  They were too big for one little blogger to cover in four-hundred odd words.  George Harrison is much loved by those who were there at the time and many who weren't....

June 16, 2020

The Beatles again and again

The Beatles were big.  Huge, as DJT might say.  They were too big for one little blogger to cover in five hundred–odd words.  Today I would like to focus on the original leader, John Lennon, and later give equal ti...

May 29, 2020

Wrecking America one cool mask at a time

The cool kids have decided that wearing a mask is cool.  Don’t you want to be cool and accepted by the cool kids? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday said that wearing a mask was “cool” and suggested he wanted to si...

May 28, 2020

Oh, that Mr. Gretchen, he's such a joker!

On Wednesday, Gretchen Whitmer called a press conference to address the request from her husband, Marc Mallory — Mr. Gretchen Whitmer — to have his boat pushed to the front of a marina's docking list.  Basically, G...

May 19, 2020

When the fearful rule

The people who are sick with fear try to infect you early. If you're black, they tell you to fear the white man's bigotry. A woman is told to fear the patriarchy even though this includes the men in her life. Gays are taught to fear ...

May 13, 2020

The beasts that live in the swamp

"What so ever you do to the least of my brothers that you do unto me." The left took Michael Flynn and threw him in jail.  They planned on throwing away the key. It takes a certain cruel derangement to steal a man's life b...

April 19, 2020

Is crazy liberalism the 'new normal'?

We’ve been hearing it from liberals for the last eight or so years.  Remember Obama speaking about his weak economy?  He said that was the new normal. As COVID-19 provides ammunition to leftists they begin to speak of sheltering as...

April 18, 2020

Paying for David Frum’s failures

David Frum, staff writer at the Atlantic, headlined his April 7 article about COVID-19 “This Is Trump’s Fault” and sub-headlines it “The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures.” Frum distorts ...

April 17, 2020

Democrats and their precious scientific models

Three Sundays ago, some clown was given a conference op and claimed “experts” told him that upwards of 220 million Americans would die of this Chinese thing. Liberals love such predictions.  Death, cement milkshakes, soft martial ...

April 13, 2020

Dana Nessel's struggle with white people

While her boss Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is struggling to kvetch with anything Trump says, Attorney General Dana Nessel fights her own battle with the forces of evil: white people.  Here is a lovely tweet by this dizzy...

March 29, 2020

Sheltering with the stars

I just walked by the TV my wife was napping to and there was that guy.  Good ole’ That Guy.  I seem to remember him starting a biz and ending up rich enough to buy a basketball team.  I am unaware of the show’s name because...

March 27, 2020

Congratulations to working America

The skies have been mostly gray since the virus raised its head.  Here in the upper Midwest, we are used to this rhythm; we know something better is coming.  We stay home, and we work from home. The phrase "the exception p...

March 26, 2020

Long lines at the gas station

We categorize things and events.  Today I am reminded of the great gasoline shortages America experienced in the early, mid, and late seventies.  The long lines of cars stacked up on the main roads were sometimes places of mayhem.  ...

March 17, 2020

The day the US beat the virus

The "experts" and the "media" are eternally and loudly predicting doom and gloom, so I took Sunday to look at the bright side. Here is a view from ground level.  Everybody went shopping last Thursday.  Normall...

March 17, 2020

Liberal powder brains and Wuhan

An event like this Wuhan thing allows you to look inside people who are compelled to talk too much for a living.  From Breitbart, "Sunday on MSNBC's 'AM Joy,' Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin argued the...

March 9, 2020

The bitter tears of the Warren-supporters

Would you like a laugh?  Read "The Rage and Sorrow of the Warren Supporter" by Lizzie Widdicombe in the March 7 New Yorker.  The article is a look inside the headquarters of "Brooklyn for Warren," where th...

February 25, 2020

Liberals vs. the Good Samaritan

One attendee at a Trump rally fell ill the other day.  The YouTube video is titled “DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? President Trump DEMANDS Doc For MAGA Fan” Three days after being posted on February 21, more than 174,000 people had vie...

February 6, 2020

Low-information Democrat regrets voting for Buttigieg

The www dot makes people say peculiar things that don't fare well under scrutiny.  One of the most frequently spoken clichés is that Trump voters are low-information. Personally, I find the many liberals surrounding my life te...

January 30, 2020

Representative Stefanik knows how to fight back

DJT held a rally last night in New Jersey.  The place was packed.  Trump has his stump speech, surely as The Earl of Louisiana had his.  I was sold the first time I heard Trump, and I don't need to hear him over and ov...

January 23, 2020

A fatal flaw in the liberal character

I think most conservatives live in the moment way better than liberals.  "Liberal" is a sort of umbrella term; it encompasses leftist, progressive, and maniac. Liberals live in a dimension of only two personal time zones: the p...

January 21, 2020

Only a brainless fool would dare to wear a pussy hat in America

I read that the women's pussy hat march was greeted with foul weather on Sunday.  Unsurprisingly, the gals gave as much as they got in terms of foulness. Man, they swear a lot. You know who swears?  People who have gone beyond ang...

December 19, 2019

Gay insecurities to be featured in new Netflix Christmas movie

Netflix gave money to a Brazilian comedy group called Porta dos Fundos to produce The First Temptation of Christ in which a strong implication concerning Jesus' sexuality is made — the gay Christ and all that other gay stuff....

December 18, 2019

Why progressives are like the Detroit Lions

Demanding that people fit into a "system" instead of tailoring a "system" to fit people is always a recipe for tedium and monotony. You systematically remove fathers from inner-city homes for fifty years, and you get Chicago, a...

November 28, 2019

Robert Redford can't sleep at night!

NBC’s website declares its high opinion of itself in a section called “THINK Opinion, Analysis, Essays” and   Nov. 26 saw Robert Redford write what I suppose is an essay, or a primal scream, called “President Trump...

November 19, 2019

Would you let Colin Kaepernick quarterback your Pop Warner team?

Colin Kaepernick failed to showcase his team management and personal deportment skills on Saturday. He stood up 24 teams who came to Atlanta for an undeserved “special” audition. He stood them up with just one hour’s notice....

October 1, 2019

'Unity' on the forked tongues of Democrats

The oddity and strangeness of Democrats never fail to amaze.  Imagine living in Portland and believing that donning a mask and blocking traffic while threatening violence against people going to breakfast is somehow going to make America a be...

September 16, 2019

Bernie's big thoughts way more important than a baby

Last week produced a video that demonstrates how selfish progressives, liberals, socialists, and Democrats are when unaware that the camera is on.  The only thing these angry freaks are in touch with is their own nervous system. Here's...

September 11, 2019

Liberals live in an anechoic prison

Jill Filipovic writes "Donald Trump craves Chrissy Teigen's approval"  According to an editor's note at CNN, Filipovic is the author of a book titled The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. Filipovic is so u...

August 29, 2019

Sorry, Taylor Swift, I'm busy

If truth be told, most things I read are reactive; nobody is giving anyone something to think about, only something to react to.  Obviously, the Left is not thinking at all.  I saw a child of about three carrying on in the grocery...

August 12, 2019

Epstein's killer has already gotten away with murder

The minute I read Trey Gowdy's quote concerning Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, I knew we will never get to the bottom of the irresponsible and unforgiveable actions of our government concerning the suicide of Epstein. Gowdy, who neve...

August 10, 2019

Where are all the videos of white nationalist violence?

Impeachment over Russian Collusion seems off the table, so the left must come up with a new “crisis” to hector and badger the 60-odd million Americans that voted for Donald Trump.  Enter from stage far left “White Nationalist V...

August 9, 2019

Joe Biden and the soul of America

Joe Biden claims to be in a battle for the soul of America. What we really need is an honest conversation about the soul of our federal government. Passing bills written by corporate lobbyists is fraudulent. Passing on a national debt that now ...

August 6, 2019

Democrats collectively hate everybody

Demoy Howell, a former classmate of Dayton mass murderer Connor Betts, said, "I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an 'I hate everybody' crime." That gets to the heart of the matter.  That's what all suc...

August 3, 2019

Marianne Williamson says one thing, then says another

Author Marianne Williamson says one thing, “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” But candidate Marianne Williamson says another, “This is part of the dark underbelly of Ameri...

August 1, 2019

Is it me, or are Democrats just like Joe Btfsplk?

Emily Stewart at Vox asks, "Is it me or is Marianne Williamson making a lot of sense?" Yeah, it's you. It's you and your whole party of decay and rot and just plain gloomy stupid.  Marianne Williamson and her sp...

July 31, 2019

Are Democrats ready to lie?

Bill Curry writes for Salon, "Are Democrats ready to fight?" Curry is angry at his chosen party.  Well, it is hard to approve of venomous snakes lying in the grass. Curry says, "Mueller's testimony was a fiasco for ...

July 30, 2019

Yelling 'racist' won't clean up our cities

In response to President Trump's message to Elijah Cummings, liberals pulled out all of their racist daggers in an attempt to slay Trump once again. Even the most passive-aggressive liberal knows that screaming epithets at white people won...

July 30, 2019

Liberals play yellophone

As children we used to play a game called "Telephone."  A message was whispered from one ear to the next in the hope that the last person in line would come up with the original message. Modern liberals play a game in direct op...

July 23, 2019

Liberal moonshot hypocrisy

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon.  It was a Sunday, and though all of 13 years old, I remember it vividly.  One marvelous aspect of the journey is that America approached it with an openness that...

July 22, 2019

Scientific fact: Men can get pregnant

Even crazy liberals, while barking at the moon, can stumble over a thought worth consideration. Dr. Eugene Gu tweeted last week that "[i]t's a scientific and medical fact that men can get pregnant and also have abortions.  Trans...

July 16, 2019

The freaks that star in Trump's carnival

Over at the Atlantic, James Fallows uses the words of a reader to "trenchantly" unmask Donald Trump.  America has elected a carnival barker with absolutely no clue about history, government, the machinations of global fi...

July 12, 2019

Women's soccer and third-grade girls

I taught public school music for thirty years starting in 1977, so I watched as many young teachers gave up on educating within their content area and turned instead to inculcating partisan whims and political fancies.  It was the path of l...

July 5, 2019

The morons of Florida's 24th district

In Florida, Democratic representative Frederica Wilson says people should be prosecuted for making fun of members of Congress online.  I will tread lightly in fear of retribution from my representative class; I'm not intereste...

July 5, 2019

Lessons to be learned from the modern Left

Lessons to be learned from the modern Left: Calling another person homophobic always makes him respond in a positive fashion. Demanding reparations for a slavery no living American remembers or participated in is sure to bring us together as ...

July 4, 2019

Stephanie Wilkinson and the Washington Post's Milgram experiment

Stephanie Wilkinson writes, "Restaurants are now a soundstage for our national spectacle" for the Washington Post last week.  On Friday, June 22, 2018, Wilkinson, co-owner of the Little Red Hen restaurant, told White Hou...

July 4, 2019

The Ugly Americans of soccer

In 1958, Eugene Burdick and William Lederer published The Ugly American.  The book was written to expose the failure of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Southeast Asia.  The American diplomatic corps were boorishly indifferent to...

July 2, 2019

The New York Times Antifa fallacy

Greg Weiner writes for the New York Times "The Trump Fallacy" with subhead, "Despite what some of the president's supporters think, you cannot celebrate his policies and ignore his poor behavior." Do leftists like...

June 28, 2019

The spoiled 'protected group' brats of America

On Wednesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) asked Derek Slater, Google global director of information policy, about a Project Veritas video in which Google referred to Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Dennis Prager as "Nazis."  Tha...

June 27, 2019

Google execs some of the worst liars in the world

Sen. Ted Cruz was questioning a Google executive today about a Project Veritas report charging that Google steers conservative queries to liberal sites.   The exec agreed that Google should not  be a political tool for any one polit...

June 12, 2019

A tale of two lost liberal cities

In Townhall, retired Sheriff David Clarke writes “Clueless In Chicago” while Carl Nolte of the San Francisco Chronicle admits “It’s true -- San Francisco is a mess. And everyone knows it”. Big cities across our nation...

June 4, 2019

Congratulations, graduates

Liberals use their brains to tie themselves into intersectional knots.  As a result, a liberal becomes unable to travel through simple social occasions with grace and refinement.   If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be held up a...

May 18, 2019

Rules for white people

Old news to you, but I just found out Netflix produces a show titled Dear White People. How quaint — another aerobically airheaded mental exercise in doling out privilege to some while presenting a forum to spread blame throughout the larger...

May 17, 2019

Leftist student lies herself into the pokey

Thievery is the naturally occurring byproduct of adolescent leftist viewpoint as it matures into rancid full-bloom socialist philosophy.  Leftism takes from everybody and returns nothing.  It promises lil’ old Bernie Sanders and deliv...

May 8, 2019

The Democrats and Mass Hysteria

My father owned a house on a golf course and at night we would sit on his patio.   If we were chatty enough to let it get late there sometimes sounded a helluva riot in the near or far distance.  The coyotes had found prey and were wil...

May 6, 2019

Republicans must pull the trigger now

I had a conversation with a 22-year-old recently, and what I came away with was a little frightening.  This boy believes that the Republicans are all criminals out to undermine citizens.  The Republicans have allowed the media and a...

April 26, 2019

The Chicago Sun-Times wishes you a peasant morning

In the Chicago Sun-Times Thursday morning, Phil Kadner exposes the gloomy but true condition of the liberal mind in postmodern America.  "Prepare the public for impeachment and get on with it" is soaked in bluster a...

April 24, 2019

Pete Buttigieg's appeal

I am aware that "gay" has figured in all cultures since time immemorial, which is of little concern because what people do in private is their own business.  But when all of the window shades are pulled up and the illumi...

April 19, 2019

...And they say Trump is a jerk

Browsing the media will reveal the daily dose of stupid and gross things liberals say about Donald Trump.  Trump is Vlad the Impaler.  Trump is pimping America.  Trump is a narcissist.  Trump is a Russian ...

April 17, 2019

A pathetic failure to recognize what is priceless about Notre Dame

"For in this rose contained was heaven and earth in little space." One thing I don't want to hear is all of the faux praise and fawning over the potential loss of Notre Dame Cathedra to fire.  The fake love-fest has already...

March 29, 2019

Where Joe Biden might find a culture up to his standards

The problem with modern political correctness run amok is its reinforcement of stupid lies and hate. Joe Biden had this to say yesterday: "In the 1900s, so many women were dying at the hands of their husbands because they were chattel, j...

March 23, 2019

Dana Milbank takes his passive-aggressive cow for a walk

"Well, don't have a cow over it!"  I remember my cousin Diane saying that to her sister way back in 1966 or so.  It was the first time I heard the phrase.  Diane was a master of passive-aggressive behavior; s...

March 14, 2019

Learning how to speak 'Universitese'

I don't know who "Felicity Huffman" is.  Some big-time television star who shares an ethical paint-by-numbers palette with Jussie Smollett, I suppose.  But today, we all know her sleazy story.  The larger nar...

March 12, 2019

Democrat goes all Darth Vader on a school bus

In my last article I quoted a post from a Democrat, “We have the money, real estate, education and the best jobs. When we think about you we think you are a dying breed which you are thankfully.” No doubt this guy believes it because h...

March 8, 2019

Democratic hubris and the god complex

hubris (hyoНћoЛ€brД­s) n.   Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance You can find posts from Democrats all over the internet that are at first merely pompous and then cross the line into imperious. Here is an example, not dire...

March 6, 2019

The passion excuse

Democratic Party enthusiasts’ years ago wore white hoods and gathered to scare, harass, and sometimes murder people of backgrounds different from their own. One must suppose these awful people were passionate.  Murder is, after all, mos...

February 20, 2019

Jussie Smollett and the double-edged swindle

Get a load of L.Z. Granderson over at CNN, "On Jussie Smollett story, we deserve to know the truth." Many of my gay friends reached out to me over the past few days asking for my thoughts, because they were skeptical of Smollett's ...

February 19, 2019

How to know if the news is fake

Either Jussie Smollett faked his beating or the two guys he paid $3,500 upfront with 5 C-notes to come later decided to attack him for his generosity. On January 29, Cory Booker tweeted, "The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was a...

February 16, 2019

Inside the mind of Ilhan Omar

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her family fled Somalia after the start of civil war in 1991.  According to GlobalSecurity.org "since 1991, an estimated 350,000 to 1,000,000 Somalis have died because of the conflict."  Somalis ...

February 1, 2019

University of Michigan’s snowflakes are in reality slushballs

On Tuesday, University of Michigan students circulated an online petition demanding the college close because of approaching severe cold weather.  It is sad to read the tactic they employed while asking the university to close; UM should clos...

October 25, 2018

Tippecanoe and Witchypoo

By and large Democrats believe in nothing.  They booed God at their national convention.  They don’t believe the Constitution obtains any longer, perhaps because it was written by white guys, and we all know how Democrats feel about w...

October 24, 2018

Canada killing the mockingbird

Students nursed upon Seussian sox in a box with a fox develop constricted literary palates.  Upon later entering the educational profession, they become easily abstracted and disordered when life doesn't rhyme. A school board officia...

October 19, 2018

Brooke Baldwin provides aid and comfort to thugs

In America the mask is an indication of wicked intentions.  Only when the mob gains total control will disguise be discarded; rationally unnecessary as brutality becomes normalized and regulated. CNN's Brooke Baldwin supplies ma...

October 18, 2018

Ted Wheeler, sponsor of thugs

Portland's Ted Wheeler, mayor of the certifiably craziest and meanest city in America, won't admit that he quietly encourages mob rule in his city.  In Portland, the police stand down as thugs run amok. Journalist Andy C. Ngo pos...

October 17, 2018

Democrats destroy what they don't stand for, what they don't care about

I'm not done with Hillary Clinton, still the great white dope of the Democratic Party.  She said, "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about." In every modern D...

October 16, 2018

Democrats destroy what you stand for, what you care about

If Hillary Clinton could think, she would possibly notice the inbred self-mockery of her own deplorable statements.  You probably read her latest shot at the Republican Party; quoth the craven, "you cannot be civil with a political par...

October 10, 2018

A healing process for liberals

Clinical projection occurs when internal desires, impetuses, fears, and beliefs are not accepted by the self and therefore ascribed to others.  It generally occurs immediately after any liberal finishes a hearty breakfast provided by an Ame...

October 4, 2018

Alyssa Milano and the royal 'we'

CNN posted an article by Alyssa Milano entitled "We can't let Trump and Kavanaugh be America's face." Milano was an actress on a TV show back in the 1980s.  In a now tired pattern set by almost every young woman labeled...

October 1, 2018

Don't like her, don't believe her

I stopped by my sister's house last weekend, a Saturday tradition that began when my mother was still alive and traded venues upon her death.  Some of my other siblings show up frequently, the food is great, and the conversation is on p...

September 11, 2018

These are the people who want to control you

Liberal Democrats desire only one mechanism for all mankind: liberal control over all mankind. The joke is that liberals are not yet mature enough to control themselves. So what do liberals in control look like?  Here are a few exampl...

September 5, 2018

Liberals, abortion, and Gollum's precious

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." This week will unveil the liberals' ugly love of abortion, a devotion not seen since Gollum possessed and later sought to r...

August 31, 2018

Free speech and multiple perspectives

Brown University has censored one of its researchers who did a study on rapid-onset gender dysphoria.  The study's author is Lisa Littman, an assistant professor in behavioral sciences. Littman noted that teen friend groups sometimes...

August 30, 2018

Because it's not cool the environment our classroom is in

Sometimes you have to let progressive stupid offer full bloom to its artless expression. Seventeen-year-old Jo-Ann Butler, a senior at Union Mine High School in El Dorado, California, grabbed a MAGA hat off the head of a fellow student. ...

August 29, 2018

Adolescent columnists and growing up

"Trump and the Rise of 21st Century Fascism" by Adele M. Stan, published in The American Prospect on August 27, 2018, substantiates the principle behind Emerson's quote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little m...

August 28, 2018

Master Roland S. Martin will now speak for all black people

Roland S. Martin speaks for all blacks in "These African American Pastors Who Sucked Up to Donald Trump Are a Disgrace" in the Daily Beast, August 27, 2018. Martin is irritated because after a large group of big-city black pastors f...

August 27, 2018

Blame the real killer

Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register, on Aug. 23, 2018, headlines an opinion: "Instead of blaming immigration for Mollie Tibbetts' death, blame misogyny."  In this way, Basu joins a chorus of deflectors who have no interest in...

August 18, 2018

Andrew Cuomo was never that great

Andrew Cuomo spoke for millions of Americans when he said, "We're not going to make America great again.  It was never that great.  We have not reached greatness.  We will reach greatness when every American is ...

June 28, 2018

Maxine in Dunceland

Maxine Waters to Chris Hayes while defending her call for harassment of officials in Trump's Cabinet and administration: As a matter of fact, I believe in peaceful protests.  I believe that protest is at the centerpiece of our demo...

June 27, 2018

Pure hate is on Maxine's side

In early November of 2016, the progressive left in America felt itself at perihelion – so close to the sun that leftists could reach out and touch it.  Today, they are in a quickening descent whose contrails are ugly and fraught with ...

June 19, 2018

Democrats: Experts at separating families

Just one of many voluminous liberal outbursts concerning a longstanding border policy unnoticed until Trump became president:  In McAllen, Texas on Monday, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King said the Statue of Liberty is "weeping righ...

June 12, 2018

Liberals destroying hate, one F-bomb at a time

Robert De Niro exhausted his vocabulary and syntactic skills at the Tony Awards show the other night.  "F‑‑‑ Trump," he said.  Then, marveling at his lyrical elegance, he thought to say it again. ...

June 7, 2018

Black employment: The new underground railroad

In "Just Say It's Racist" in the Atlantic, June 4, Adam Serwer makes an assertion so astonishing and bold that one would be shocked had it not already been said over 3 billion times in just the last six years.  Serwer say...

June 6, 2018

The Masterpiece constitutional cake

Jennifer Finney Boylan of the New York Times is unhappy with this week's ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop.  In "After Masterpiece, It's Time to Change the Constitution," he (Boylan is ...

June 5, 2018

Whining about good news

CNN's Don Lemon on Friday's record job numbers report for blacks: "What's full employment without full respect?" When someone hires you, it is safe to assume he respects you enough to entrust an important corner of his busine...

May 30, 2018

The Starbucks race relations revival show

People do change, but the corrective rate is uncommonly slow and subject to regression.  Starbucks's presentation of a national anti-racial bias training webinar did not see any river washings followed by congregants professing their ne...

May 29, 2018

Democrats cheat Democrats

James Clapper admits there was an "informant" in the Trump campaign, but nobody on the left hears a word he says.  Goodness, how could we think the highly placed, highly moral, highly ethical leaders of the Democrat Party would do...

May 28, 2018

Do you trust any FBI guy?

From the FBI: May 25, 2018 Alert Number I-052518-PSA Foreign Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide Summary The FBI recommends any owner of small office and home office routers power cycle (reboot...

May 25, 2018

Time for the boys to come clean

With word that the Obama administration imbedded one, and possibly two, spies within the Trump campaign arrives a semi-new appellation for a government scandal: Spygate. The press has adored its "hyphen-gates" since 1973.  Repo...

May 24, 2018

Conservatives know how to KISS

A young musician knows he is in a good situation when a grayhair says to him, "Hey, kid, keep it simple, stupid."  If the youth is of a conservative bent, he heeds the advice and brushes off the insult.  The result is a ...

May 23, 2018

Abusing the Bill of Rights

Remember the old saying, "Your freedom ends at the tip of my nose?"  The left never heard of it. For years, the left has tweaked America's nose at every opportunity.  From running amok in Chicago during the 1968 D...

May 22, 2018

Democrats and their faith in negativity

Name an American construct, and the left will immediately drape it in negative energy. Consider the right to vote.  The Democrats will promptly speak of voter suppression and eccentrically claim that blacks are confused about where to ge...

May 12, 2018

The high price of 'resistance'

Susan Glasser pens an opinion in The New Yorker on May 11, 2018 titled "The Price of Getting Inside Trump's Head.  It is interesting for a moment, but it loses altitude as she mistakes word count for value.  The article v...

May 9, 2018

Testing your implicit bias with their explicit bias

In publishing "Before the next videotaped Starbucks disaster, everyone should take implicit bias training," USA Today is dabbling in thought control.  Written by Derrick Johnson, who is president and CEO of the NAACP, th...

May 8, 2018

Pitting American against American

Leonard Pitts, Jr. has an article in the May 4, 2018 Miami Herald titled "I'm done trying to understand Trump supporters.  Why don't they try to understand me?" Pitts doesn't realize that we do understand ...

October 26, 2017

Still waiting for a liberal media epiphany

An epiphany (from the ancient Greek бјђπιφО¬νεια, epiphaneia) is an experience of sudden and striking realization.  We voters outside the seaboard citadels of snobbery are still waiting for the Press to ret...

August 22, 2017

Maybe the left just needs a cookie

Last week, in an article titled "There Goes Colonel Sanders," Marc Dion coincidentally wrote about something near and dear to our hearts: food.  Mr. Dion is a terrific writer while simultaneously an inferior thinker.  His prose is...

July 18, 2017

The left’s never-ending temper tantrum

Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Tantrum – A tantrum is an episode of extreme anger and frustration characterized by crying, screaming, and violent body motions, including throwing things, falling to the floor, and banging one...