First Post: Sunday, February 5, 2017

Bombast and repetition, repetition and bombast. The admen will be reaching for your wallet via a little misdirection through your heartstrings and funnybone. Let’s fetishize everything today. U-S-A! U-S-A! Continue reading

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First Post: Saturday, February 4, 2017

Morning still here on the Left Coast, but good afternoon now everywhere else. Good afternoon now. Continue reading

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First Post: Friday, February 3, 2017

Good article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/everyone-has-a-right-to-free-speech-even-milo/515565/

Laws, not men. As well, the Home of Mario Savio and traveling conspirators like Joan Baez & Bob Dylan should understand that free speech is not subject to political tests. Protest the message, but the messenger still has to have his say. Unfortunate. This is the same principle at play as the celebrowbeating — no one side gets to dictate everything. Plenty of room for dissent. Continue reading

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First Post: Thursday, February 2, 2017

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Happy Bird of Paradise Day! Spring is already here!

WAR! WE ARE GOING TO WAR, sez BANNON! LET’S BLOW SOMETHING UP JUST SO WE CAN BE ALL ALPHA AND NUCLEAR AND CREATE SOME CARNAGE! KA-BOOM! THAT’LL LEARN YA, YA NON-’MURRIKANS! As well, how’s things going in the Rust Belt & Bible Belt today? Today’s high here in Studio City, Calif., was 64°F. Rain tomorrow, though. Continue reading

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First Post: Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Good afternoon to the Rust Belt & Bible Belt now, and a pleasant good morning in the Mountain Time Zone and Left Coast, too. Continue reading

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Tuesday Sniping: Immortal Bernie Parent Edition

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Now this is a border wall…protecting Canada from its southern neighbor!

Mid-1970s, Philalala metropolitan area, bumper stickers on Datsuns and AMC Pacers and Chevy Novas reading ‘ONLY JESUS SAVES MORE THAN BERNIE PARENT’. Here he is some 40 years later, in La-La Land, flanked by his fellow goaltending legends. Continue reading

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Monday Boxing: Immortal Wayne Simmonds Edition

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Triumphant return to La-La Land

Apologies for the blurry — well, even blurrier than usual — snap. Low-light plus 83x optical zoom equals balky autofocus. The tall guy in the snap had 3 goals on the afternoon, including the gamewinner in the 4-3 championship game, which found the Metropolitan Division edging the Pacific Division at the arena in DTLA yesterday. Continue reading

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First Post: Sunday, January 29, 2017

Form is temporary, class is permanent. Witness the men’s and women’s finals at this year’s big lawn-tennis tournament in Melbourne. Age, injuries, autoimmune diseases could not stop the Williams Sisters, Rogerr Federr, Rafa ‘The Bull’ Nadal. ’grats to the Fed. Too good. Fair play to him. Rafa, always fighting, is willing to ‘suffer’ (his word) on the court. Form is temporary, any mope can get lucky for one or two tourneys or even a season; class is permanent, as evidenced by multiple majors and winning majors after age 30. Form is temporary, class is permanent. Continue reading

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First Post: Saturday, January 28, 2017

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Truth, Justice & The Canadian Way…

Mistah Alex Trebek, lover of nonalternative facts and ice hockey. What else is there? (Though he did have to bail out of the horse bidness, sadly.) On the whole, however, a Quality Canadian, a Quality Individual… Continue reading

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First Post: Friday, January 27, 2017

Sisters are doin’ it for themselves! Venus & Serena, making American Tennis Great Since 1994, when Don Trump Sr. was in the middle of a most miraculous business transaction: losing money operating a casino. Wonder if the caudillo (thanks for that one, Mistah Chas. P. Pierce!) will will have anything to say about the Williams, given that one of them will win the big lawn-tennis tournament in Melbourne early Saturday morning. Or maybe neither one of them sufficiently fits his idea of a tennis champion as suggested by central casting. Oh, well. Continue reading

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