Because the fight is never over … Damned if I didn’t stumble across yet another article today by yet another befuddled onlooker wondering why in the hell Matt Gaetz doesn’t just hang it up and go home. Nobody likes the guy, even in his own party. And after all, it costs a person exactly nothing […]
No peeking, now … How much would you bet you can name at least 5 of the 10 Commandments? I’ll give you two-to-one odds. Tell you what, let’s bust it down to three. Only three. You don’t have to get them verbatim, either, the general idea is close enough. Think you can do it? OK, […]
Why we often crave more than mere reality … A wealthy financier playboy, accustomed to a life of jet-setting and cavorting with young women on his own private island, is jailed for underage sex trafficking. He’s been busted before and set free, more than once. This time, he knows he’s staring at a possible life […]
It’s tasty, healthy, good looking, and almost sinfully easy … There’s times you really want to pull out the stops for a potluck and fix that specialty dish everyone asks for — rum cake at Christmas, three-tier dip for the Super Bowl bash, hot and spicy deviled eggs for the family reunion, that sort of thing. Then […]
Careful, though — it might spoil you for everything else … In the Appalachian foothills of Georgia and North Carolina, it’s easy to spot a good barbecue shack — you smell it before you see it. It’s that unmistakably intoxicating blend of hickory smoke, pork, and spices. Inside, you likely won’t find beef or chicken or ribs, […]
What the gospels got right, and wrong, about history’s most famous execution … Pontius Pilate was not in the best of moods. If not for these backward people and their festivals, he would be enjoying a glass of wine at his villa on the Mediterranean coast at Caesarea. Instead, he was stuck in dusty, sunburnt […]
And how you can cover them … Some folks are looking at that headline, thinking “You gotta be kiddin’ me!” I know, I know — Apple Corps Ltd wasn’t exactly the Amazon of the ’70s, and it’s given the Fab Four an enduring rap as inept businessmen. But hear me out, because first of all, Apple is […]
It’s both a science and an art … Ah, the diner hamburger — an American gustatory icon. As a fry cook in the early 1980s I grilled thousands of them, every one made to order. Never got tired of them either. If you’ve tried whipping up diner-style burgers at home, but you never seem to quite nail […]
Seuss Enterprises is neither a white knight nor a coward … On March 2nd, 2021, a mob of leather-skirted feminists, BLM Marxists, Antifa thugs, Venezuelan asylum-seekers, and betweeded professors of multi-cultural literature funded by George Soros stormed the Seuss Enterprise Building at 123 Mulberry Street in La Jolla, CA, holding the board of directors at […]
On post-modernism, Mr. Potato Head, and All in the Family … In the early months of 2021, Americans of a certain age had our childhoods canceled. In late February, Hasbro rebranded its “Mr. Potato Head” line of toys as “Potato Head”. Although the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head figures hadn’t been changed or renamed at […]