Seven items off the top of my head today… On Friday, I took my daughter to the terrific “Destination: Moon” exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center and realized that most of the people around me were not alive when men first stepped onto the lunar surface. Then, from three feet away, I saw the […]
Three quick items… I completely agree with Joe Adalian, TV reporter and Vulture editor, who tweeted: “That Andy Lack had no use for Ronan Farrow but spent tens of millions on Megyn Kelly is an indictment of both Lack’s judgement and the generally misplaced priorities of cable news.” He’s referring to Lack, the head of […]
I’ve been talking about the possibility of flying cars for a long time. My fascination with them started as a boy watching George Jetson going to work in one. I’ve dreamed of doing the same ever since. On this site, my earliest post on the subject dates to May 27, 1999 when I wrote about […]
As I wrote Friday, I was outraged at Stephen Colbert — for whom I’d had a lot of respect for both his comedic and critical thinking skills (Catholicism aside) — for playing nice with Gwyneth Paltrow on his Thursday night “Late Show.” Over the last few years, he’s made fun of Paltrow and her nonsense-promoting […]
I was very disappointed to see Stephen Colbert sucking up to Gwyneth Paltrow last night on “The Late Show.” She was in New York for her Goop health summit, just one part of her empire of pseudoscientific nonsense that sucks in far too many people who believe the garbage recommendations that she and her 150-strong […]
On my Monday radio show, I praised Oprah Winfrey for her #MeToo speech at the Golden Globes, but tried to scuttle any thoughts of her running for president. My major objection to her has always been her embrace of nonsense and her enabling of people who advocate alternative medicine and flat-out scams, like Mehmet Oz, […]