Month: August 2018

Welcome back, music lovers. We have experienced one heck of a series of news cycles this week, so it’s time for a little something different. This week I am devoting this diary to a band called Gorillaz. This is the...

It’s not unprecedented for a fairly popular president (with his own base) to discover that loyalty and enthusiasm for him does not transfer to his party’s members of Congress. President Barack Obama was unable to...

Maybe your mother told you that you can judge someone’s character by the company that they keep, and I think that is at least accurate enough to serve as a basic self-defense mechanism.  Today, Donald Trump’s deputy...

A short post… The absolute, dumbest local TV station in NYC…WPIX, Channel 11…covered a true story today with the following headline: Man dead after jumping out of Manhattan freezer with knife was a suspected...

I told my readers to “stay tuned for three more parts to this sad series” in the footnote to Part 1 of Toys R Us closing down, a tale of the retail apocalypse.  It’s time to follow through with the first...