Still battling a deadline, still working on my backup computer which slows me down a bit. Still guardedly optimistic about the Harris/Walz ticket. Still kinda amazed that there are Trump supporters who don't really care if the "Haitian Migrants eating pets" story is true or not because it makes a point they like. I'm reminded […]
One measure of how badly Donald Trump did in the debate last Tuesday night is how desperate his backers are to cry that it was rigged, fixed, crooked, whatever. They're complaining that Kamala Harris somehow got the questions in advance and I'll tell you why that's ridiculous. Here's the first question she was asked… I […]
If you like old cars, you're gonna love this. It's some restored footage of drivers in and around Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Detroit from the thirties — and it shows that some people back then drove as poorly as some people today. The film is not only restored but it's been colorized and a […]
I'm on my backup computer because my main one went kablooey on me last Saturday and the Dell people tried to talk me through fixing it over the phone and now they're sending over one technician after another. I suspect it would be cheaper for them to just give me a new computer but they […]
After a delay of a few weeks, we have a new episode of Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live. This time, it's Season 11 when Lorne Michaels returned as Executive Producer and it didn't look like he was succeeding. This may have been the last time the show teetered on the brink […]
My favorite fact-checking website, fastcheck.org, has posted a pretty long piece of what was true or false in The Great Debate. As one might imagine, D. Trump said an awful lot of things that were just not true…but K. Harris had some, as well. Some of these are arguable…like Trump saying he wanted to be […]
What we need right now is a good debate recap. And who better to moderate it than Joseph Gordon-Levitt? (Thanks to Carol Lay for recommending this.) […]
Eric Idle was recently interviewed in The New Yorker and you can read the interview here if you can get past their paywall, which sometimes you can. If not, this article summarizes and quotes some of what the interview says. It's about where the various Pythons are now and why some of them don't get […]
Isn't it interesting how the two campaigns have kinda come down to two simple competing messages? Trump's is "Make America Great Again," meaning "Let's go back to a time when you were happier with your country!" Kamala's is "We're not going back!" We seem to be talking a lot about crowd sizes these days and […]
In 1963, Hanna-Barbera entered into a deal with Ideal Toys that resulted in two programs — The Magilla Gorilla Show and The Peter Potamus Show — being produced for syndication. Both were initially loaded with plugs for Ideal's line and both were decent shows, not as good (in my opinion) as what H-B had done […]
Nicole Karlis explains where this nonsense about aborting babies after they're born comes from. Actually, I think it comes from the kind of politicians and political operatives who'll say anything if it prods some person into pledging donations and/or support. […]
Fred Kaplan on how easy it is to manipulate Donald Trump. Jonathan Chait on how JD Vance and the right-wing conspiracy nuts sabotaged Trump's debate performance. Steve Benen on how Trump avoided answering the pretty simple question, "Do you want Ukraine to win this war?" The former prez also declined to give an answer to […]
One measure of how poorly Trump did in last night's debate is how fervently he and his backers are blaming the moderators today. With Trump, any time he doesn't get exactly what he wants, it's unfair, the game was rigged, somebody cheated, there was sabotage, everything he did was perfect. But if you look at […]
Today is, of course, 9/11 — a date that will always cause folks over a certain age to remember where they were that day in 2001, how they saw what happened happen and how it was so sad and so numbing at the same time. I woke up to messages on my answering machine — […]
I finally knocked off work on a script with a pressing deadline and made time to watch the debate. I thought Kamala Harris did great — a judgment I see all over the Internet and saw on Donald Trump's face on screen, starting around 30 minutes in. The man did not look happy. Of course, […]