My definition of ‘Mixology of Information’ is stuff I find particularly interesting in today’s world. For example: Those religious nut-jobs known as the Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed severe draconian rules on women. Limits on personal freedoms such as edicts denying girls getting an education beyond the sixth grade and women being banned from working […]
In this week’s column I am going to take shots at lots of locals (many who are friends), including family and a whole bunch of state and national figures. Yeah, I’m what you call a true blue masochist. Several years ago, when Wife Patti was the Republican chairperson of the Walworth Republican Committee, she denigrated […]
It was Christmas in the late 1950s and taking the bus to downtown Rochester was a thrill unto itself. McCurdy’s Sibley’s, the smell of roasted nuts at the corner of Main Street and Clinton Avenue - all made the trip a worthwhile memory. Oh, sure, there were the catalogs and fliers promoting this and that, […]
Okay, there has been another mass shooting, making it number 30, so far this year. We (the media) have to react. I know, let’s do another take on those nasty AR-14 guns. We’ll interview a number of parents of former victims. That will evoke an equally nasty response from gun advocates with phrases like "Guns […]
Forget about the dead bear cub he transported, killed in a motor vehicle accident, to New York City’s Central Park, thinking it would be a good joke. Forget about his children’s recalling him chain sawing off the head of a dead whale and transporting home, with slobbery guts and fluids flowing off the roof of […]
Okay, so last week we celebrated 48 years of somewhat married bliss. Try to imagine that Wife Patti and myself not only have been married that long, but for most of our married life have been working together, side-by- side seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Our home office, which is a 15x15 […]
As I predicted, false posts, news "leaks", innuendos and yes, even political speeches are rising at all time levels. Any media can make a mistake, but not admitting a mistake, or even worse not caring about the truth has become a social acceptance. That is downright scary. Hey, remember the January 6th video about […]
First I remind everybody that the Times is starting, with this issue, its 36 year of existence. That may be no big whoop to all those newspapers who once touted being over 100, but those papers and most of the older start-ups have disappeared. So, why is the Times still here? Is it my sheer […]
This is my list of things I (We) need. 1. An easier way to put on fitted sheets for a king-size bed. 2. Twelve year limits on Supreme Court appointments. Our founding fathers and follow-ups had no idea how decisive, overwhelming, and ineffective on our social and political structure, life-time appointments of the land’s highest […]
Okay, so I got half of what I and most of the country wanted. In an earlier column I wrote that both Biden and Trump, along with their respective political parties, would be much better off if they were not the presidential picks for 2024. Even before the debate fiasco, Biden showed sure signs of […]
• "A total fraud" •“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” •Trump was “cultural heroin” and “just another opioid” for Middle America. •“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this […]
Okay, let’s take cursive writing out of the mix. We ‘Baby Boomers’, defined as births from 1946 to 1964, always had the feeling that the prior generation, the war and depression folks, thought we had no idea of life and its intricacies. We were the "hippies", less than knowledgeable boomers that they feared would be […]
The dictionary defines the phrase "For God’s sake", as an exclamation of impatience, annoyance, urgency, desperation or pleading. That is one definition I totally agree with. It took literal form in 1957 when the phrase "In God we trust" appeared on all American currency, but its controversial history goes back much further than that. It […]
Biden supporters simply cannot fathom why any normal-thinking human being could support Donald Trump returning to the White House in November. After all, this is the guy who cheats, schemes, lies and attempted to subvert the Constitution time and again. Let’s break down the mind of a fully engulfed Trump supporter. "It’s the economy, stupid." […]
Yes folks, Wife Patti is not all sugar and spice. Two times a year she ignores my desires and just leaves me, stranded, alone, frightened. Anyone who knows anything about me realizes I am a homebody. Give me my dogs, gardens, internet and television and simply leave me alone. I hate vacations, and after 50 […]
