What Michelle Wolf Should Say Now
It seems like we go through this every year. The White House Correspondents Association hires a topical comedian to headline their annual event in Washington, and afterwards, the usual humorless blowhards come out of the woodwork to decry that comedian's material as...
Comedians vs. C-SPAN
Before tonight's nerd prom in Washington, here's a montage of various comedians at the White House Correspondents Association dinner making cracks about C-SPAN over the decades...
A Wolf Much Funnier Than Blitzer
I just caught up with comedian Michelle Wolf's HBO special, "Nice Lady." I wasn't familiar with her before -- not being a regular viewer of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" -- but she had me laughing out loud several times. She's going to be the entertainment at the...
Big Mouths, Big Trouble
In the last week, a couple of conservative loudmouths have gotten some backlash after making comments about David Hogg, one of the survivors of the Parkland high school shooting who has become an outspoken advocate for gun law reform. First it was Fox News Channel...
I’m Lying, But Please Sign Here
I was headed into the public library when a guy outside asked, "Sir, are you a registered voter?" I knew where this was going. He had a petition or two he'd like me to sign.I had recently added my name to the list of Missourians who want to legalize both recreational...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Talk about a mic drop.In the final four paragraphs of Julie Bosman's piece in the NY Times about the candidates for governor in Illinois, she writes about this interaction between Republican Jeanne Ives and Democrat Chris Kenney... At a bipartisan candidate forum in...
Random Thoughts
Using our voices instead of our fingers to get information from search providers and elsewhere is becoming more and more common. I recently bought an Amazon Alexa and am amazed at how good it is at voice recognition. I rarely have to repeat myself, and the response is...
Rebuttals To Gun Lovers In Denial
I haven't had much to say about the mass murder last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, because I didn't think I could offer anything different than what lots of other people have already said. But today I have several rebuttals to the...