“How the mighty have fallen.” So writes King David, in 2 Samuel 1:19, lamenting the deaths of King Saul and his son, Jonathan. This mournful passage, often called “The Song of the Bow”, was originally quoted as a portion of…
Remember when the white house wrecking ball made fun of a person with a disability? Oh, which time, you ask? Well there was the crass mocking of NYT reporter Serge Kovaleski for his denial to ratify the white house squatter’s…
British author and playwright, W. Somerset Maughm, once wrote, “Impropriety is the soul of wit.” This observation came to mind as I watched Stephen Colbert prepare to leave CBS, and again, as I read numerous news reports of the hounding…
For decades, many of us who are sci-fi fans have seen increasing fictional speculation, in books and movies, depicting the use of drugs, cyber augmentations, gene swaps and body sculpting to artificially increase human strength and senses beyond those of…
Columnist Peggy Noonan wrote, a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal, that the middle-of-night-blogger-in-chief had “met his match” in taking on Pope Leo. She quoted early TV religio-celebrity, Bishop Fulton Sheen, whose live TV show regularly drew more…
The term “cosplay” was coined as a portmanteau of “costume” and “play” to describe the burgeoning practice of buying or making costumes so you can pretend to be your favorite anime or streaming character, not only by wearing the clothing,…
AI Wrote That On the morning of Easter Sunday, the current white house mental case sent another in his tirade of ever-changing and unhinged threats to Iran about the Strait of Hormuz blockade. This one, however, was filled with expletives…
The ancient legend of the Fisher King, which formed much of the basis for T.S. Eliot’s epic poem, The Wasteland, is one of the lesser known tales in the quest stories of King Arthur and his Round Table. Like many of…
For Pete’s sake—invoke the 25th Amendment! Adopted after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 25th Amendment to our Constitution provides a path for succession in the event that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties…
Quite randomly today, I settled on writing about two not-so-much-in-the-news issues on the agenda of the most incompetent secretary of defense in the history of our country. In an obvious attempt to dumb down our future military leadership so that…
In the story of Pinocchio, written in the 1880s as a children’s serial by Italian author, Carlo Collodi, a wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy learns, over time, the meaning of honesty, bravery, and selflessness. Because of…
Like every magician you’ve ever seen, the current white house squatter is a master of distraction, more accurately, in magic, called misdirection, or audience management, in which the audience’s gaze is manipulated in order to divert attention away from a secret…
Last week, the preeminent French newspaper, Le Figaro, revealed the results of a study conducted by Professor Frederique Sandretto, an expert in American Culture at the Parisian University, Sciences Po. Based on a careful evaluation of the wording of the last…
A few recurring themes converged this week when the dress-up Attorney General Barbie Doll yelled and deflected her way through a five hour Congressional hearing, setting a new record for embarrassing behavior by a federal appointee, which was, already, a…
In the 60s, from Dylan and Baez to Country Joe and the Fish, from “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag” to “Fortunate Son” to “Blowin’ In The Wind” to (fill in your favorite), our protest, our rage, our…
