I get a lot of spam calls — wholly-unsolicited calls from folks wanting to sell me something I (a) don't need, (b) don't want and (c) if I did want or need it, I certainly wouldn't buy it from a total stranger cold-calling me from some list of numbers they acquired somewhere. An awful lot […]
Here's the promo reel for the 1974-1975 season on CBS…a season that had some pretty good shows returning and debuting. The announcer is Ernie Anderson who did this kind of thing for years for all three networks and everywhere else… […]
The folks at The Associated Press review a lot of recent statements by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about medical data in the United States. Needless to say, he gets almost none of it right. Was ever the health of a nation placed in the hands of someone who knows so little? […]
I intermittently follow a number of folks on YouTube who teach about cooking and/or how our food is made. The main ones I find interesting for occasional viewing are Adam Ragusea, Brian Lagerstrom, Laura Vitale, Chef John, Sam the Cooking Guy, Martha Stewart and Joshua Weissman. Mr. Weissman recently journeyed to where they make Parmigiano […]
There's a lot of conflicting information around about the status, guilt, innocence or history of Kilmar Abrego García…and a lot of people who, despite knowing very little about the man or his background, are very, very certain that know enough about who or what he is. Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post lays out a […]
Read More… from FACT CHECK: More on the Abrego García Matter
As you may know from past essays here, my father's side of the family was Jewish and my mother's was Catholic. Neither parent was particularly proprietary about their religion. To a great extent, it was a matter of being what they were so as to not disrespect their parents' faiths. Judaism was my official heritage/faith […]
Trump keeps talking about how much money his tariffs are bringing in…so much, he says, that this country may be able to do away with the Income Tax. Steve Benen of The Maddow Blog says that the numbers Trump is citing are bogus. So the idea that you will soon not have to pay Income […]
We haven't had a Laurel & Hardy film here for a while so here's Perfect Day, which was released on August 10, 1929. When it first appeared, it did not have the famous "kuku" song that you'll hear in the opening here and which most of us know as the boys' theme song. That didn't […]
Dan from Nova Scotia is one of many who've asked me about the episode I saw filmed of The Dick Van Dyke Show… I assume that at the end of the filming of an episode, the actors were re-introduced, and the audience gave them one last cheer and applause? Can you share any anecdotes about […]
Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post tracks some of the inaccurate things Donald Trump has said about water over the years. FactCheck.org tracks some of the inaccurate things Trump has said about coal. And FactCheck.org tracks some of the inaccurate things Robert F. Kennedy has said about food coloring. […]
Disney has had a formidable presence on Broadway for thirty years now. Here's a concert celebrating the shows that have played — often for long, long times and even still — on The Great White Way. The performers are Michael James Scott (the current genie in Aladdin), Kara Lindsay (who was in Newsies), Rodney Ingram […]
I've been collecting and reading comic books as long as I can remember — and I can remember back for most of my 73 years. It was not something I ever hid the way you might hide a shameful bad habit or something that made people question your I.Q. Every so often over the years, […]
Lots of people have lots of things to say about Kilmar Armando Abrego García, that gentleman who due to an "administrative error" was shipped off to El Salvador. Politifact corrects a number of things that are being said and which are not true. […]
Debuting this Wednesday on the CW Network — and other channels in other countries later this year — is a new TV series created by my friend Brendan Foley. If you were a fan of his work on Cold Courage or The Man Who Died — which you were if you saw them — you […]
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