This was the week when passengers on flights from certain Islamic countries lost their computer and tablet privileges because of a few bad apples. No – that wasn’t it. The ban was first announced as enacting because of… Credible Threats At first I was pretty bummed about that. Credible Threats is my favorite band, and…
It's been weeks now since the demise of the Internet Movie Database massage boards and I don't miss em one bit. I mean *message* boards--see? I'm already forgetting what thought it was an addiction. And maybe it was, in its way for its while. The depths of dependency were sometimes dark -- by god, I…
Now I may be no big city blogger, but seems to me it's the same problem cousin Ricky ran into when romancing the ghost of Dame Judith Haltsy, Roy Haltsy's widow. No one denied it was a big problem: They existed in different times. Much like this whole Ancient Islam vs 2018 thing, cousin Ricky and Dame…
Maybe we could ask ourselves, if it's important, how we will be seen a hundred years from now, two hundred years. Presuming we're there to look back, will it appear a plague of fatal politeness spread through the liberal West? Presuming a future impossible to deny, because it's the future, but reasonable to predict, based…
Say what you will about Justin Trudeau, but you must admit you were buoyed when the British press, not known for fake news purveyance, decreed him a shiny example of How To Meet President Orange Julius Caesar--sorry, stay positive--And Retain Your National Dignity. Go on, admit it. He seems to have proved himself a bit,…
I haven't mentioned anything for a while about the bright side to the current US administration (unless you're bingeing on these posts, in which case it's probably right there below somewhere), so it's time to do some catching up and give you two positives: By bringing out the worst in so many, this POTUS has…
Been light on the blogging lately, expending more mental energies on the soon-to-be-gone IMDb message boards (http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000007/nest/265821045 for some good points about it). Since 2007 I've been a denizen there, half the time talking about movies and music and writing, half about politics and philosophy and everything else. It's become something of a morass of id against…
All Presidents... lets face it. As Gore Vidal said, when you get to the Executive level you've been bought and sold a dozen times, and willingly. My big secret hope for Mr Trump was that he, as an iconoclast with a loudly trumpeted agenda to "fix", whatever that means, things and make America great, whatever…
The main problem with President Donald J Trump, when you get right down to it, is that Donald Trump set the poor bastard up. The reputation he's given himself, the moral depths he plumbed to get where he's got, left him with such an uphill climb it seems like a bar bet between billionaires. Even…
My apologies, that one's on me. I had every reason to believe I was going to start thinking all positive there of His Presidency Donald John Trump (esq, probably) or at least sharing those thoughts only. Positive reportage shouldn't be that hard to find, given the great number of events occurring all the time every…
The Dulcless Tone 