June 30, 2021

A morale boost for demoralized conservative political junkies

As each day's news headlines seem more bizarre and negative, it's nice to take a break, ignore the woke zombies, and focus on the positive. A great way to do that is to spend a weekend in America.  The real America.  A ...

June 10, 2021

From the left, a chilling realization that science itself (not Trump) is culpable for COVID

Somehow, a concept formerly known as a conspiracy theory is generally being accepted as fact.  Even the Facebook Ministry of Truth has given it some acknowledgment, reprogramming its robotic detectors of wrongthink to lighten up a bit on the ...

June 2, 2021

Some random American Thinking

As we move into the summer months, it's a time for some random thinking: While Democrats deny it, there is a labor shortage because government agencies are paying people not to work.  Could another cause be that some individuals woul...

May 18, 2021

Tea Party, where are you?

Shortly after Barack Obama took office in 2009, CNBC editor Rick Santelli called for a "tea party" protest against the new administration's destructive economic policies.  People listened.  And on Tax Day, April 15, ...

May 5, 2021

Feds want to suppress gig economy

"I'm from the government; I'm here to help you."  It's the phrase we all dread. California's government A.B. 5 legislation of 2020 sure "helped" the state's independent contractors.  Thos...

April 28, 2021

What Johnny Carson can teach us about the modern mainstream media

Although he retired in 1992 and died in 2005, the consensus remains that Johnny Carson was the greatest late night-talk show ever.  His reign on NBC's Tonight show lasted just a few months short of 30 years.  His old Tonight s...

March 8, 2021

The mask pledge?

Of course, it's political. Advocating or opposing wearing a mask seems, like so many other things, to split generally between leftists and conservatives. It's not a completely accurate description, but for the most part, leftists favor ...

January 1, 2021

Reporter and Professor: Where Did I Go Wrong?

I was raised in the work-for-the-same-company-all-your-life-and-retire-with-a-gold-watch era. Today, however, we’re told we’ll have several careers over a lifetime; indeed, if you stay at the same job for more than a few years you’l...

December 3, 2020

My doc and I agree about the coronavirus

Where's your medical degree? That's the common response to those critical of media reports on the coronavirus.  Who are you to question the experts? So I talked to a physician in our community with decades of experience. ...

November 30, 2020

Humans gonna human

"We're all human, we fall short sometimes." So said California governor Gavin Newsom while apologizing after recently being caught violating his own coronavirus restriction rules by attending a birthday party at a restauran...

October 28, 2020

The Five Dimensions of Rush Limbaugh

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s familiar quip of being “your host for life” has a sobering new meaning as he battles -- and seems to be losing -- his ten-month struggle against lung cancer. I began listening to Rush within d...

October 23, 2020

Liberals are fish, and conservatives are dolphins

It's been said that fish are so enveloped in water they aren't even aware of it. Maybe dolphins are different.  They have to possess some sense of what water is.  That's because while their main habitat is in and be...

September 1, 2020

The 'we're all in this together' vaccine

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has radically revised downward its numbers of people killed only by coronavirus without co-morbidities.  While U.S. deaths in the second and third quarters of 2020 are above normal, if a p...

January 16, 2019

Gillette's ad on toxic masculinity: A social and marketing disaster

I've been involved in marketing for decades: in copywriting and sales, plus audio-visual, television, and radio production, along with more than 20 years of researching, studying, and teaching as a marketing professor.  I've reviewe...

October 5, 2017

Hurricane Maria: What I Saw on Puerto Rico

I was in Ponce, on the south coast of Puerto Rico, when Hurricane Maria struck. We had thought of everything – strong house, food, stored water, generator.  But we hadn't considered overall infrastructure, especially communications....

February 11, 2012

We Must Remember, Too

License plates in Quebec have a slogan "Je souviens," French for "I remember." What do Quebecois remember?  Their French heritage, surrounded by Anglophone North America. Rooted in language, religion, and their provincial legal system, Quebec re...

August 7, 2010

Tea Partiers: Do You Still Beat Your Wife?

Here's The Narrative of the leftist establishment: Tea Partiers oppose Barack Obama because he is black.  Also, they embrace white supremacy, they use racial epithets, and they hoist signs dripping with the vilest racial hate.That's The Narrativ...

June 26, 2010

Insurance, Profits, and the Revenue Fairies

Maybe - just maybe - these government types really are ignorant of how business works.  Maybe it's not just that they hate business and business people - which they do - but they have no idea of what businesses are about.For example, here's a qu...