Category Archives: WMF

Like another famous and frequently played Symphony No. 9, this never gets old. We will miss this sort of high-culture when funding to the Arts & Humanities in ’murrika goes bye-bye. The costs of commerce-commerce-commerce are high. Mammon is never … Continue reading →

All right, all right, ya Real ’murrikans! Take it easy! Your boy is in office now, and he is a REAL ’MURRIKAN, not one of these illegitimate Muslims or Kenyans or Hawaiians. No, sir. This is a Real ’murrikan, righ’chere. … Continue reading →

Last day of The Oblahblah Administration now, and while he tended to deport (!) himself gracefully and tastefully, there were more than a few failures and contradictions: Guantanamo still open, killer drone strikes all over the place, embarrassingly yawning Mideast … Continue reading →

We don’t watch too much television, and it shows in our general unhipness and overall lack of pop-culture worship. However, we have always enjoyed the physical comedy of one Mistah Kevin James, primarily his Everyman shtick combined with the directness … Continue reading →

Never forget Ernest Hemingway’s famous dictum: ‘The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector’.

Reader B.B.N. of Jerusalem, N.Y., asks us: What does ‘KRAV-MAGA’ stand for? Well, Bin (and can we call you Bin?), give us a moment here. Toda raba.

Good afternoon now across all North American timezones. Good afternoon this time.

Now Angelenos really can’t drive in the rain!