Let me start by saying I am a fan of Jimmy Kimmel and have been from the very first Kimmel broadcast (it started a few…
Orange Madness
The following remark is from David Brooks, the NY Times columnist. I’m not a Brooks fan, but this January 2025 piece might be the most…
Genes, jeans, puns and ethnicity
I think I might have a different viewpoint than many people on the recent (current?) Sydney Sweeney has Great Jeans Genes ad campaign for Pittsburgh’s…
Interesting factoid I just learned…
“The first Kennedy-Nixon debate: the McKeesport Junto of 1947” by Dale A. Herbeck & Sara A. Mehltretter Drury [ Pages 163-180 | Received 09 May…
Hands-Off Pittsburgh Protest
I’ve never participated in a political protest before, but I must admit, this felt like a pretty good first one to attend… Hands-Off was a nationwide, grass-roots…
America’s Damn Red-Blue Election Map
As the younger among us so aptly say, WTF???!!! Hollywood couldn’t cast it or imagineer it any better… PT Barnum couldn’t have identified our country’s…
Sorry
For a while in my life, I fooled myself into thinking I was helping to make the world a better place. For me, my wife,…
What really matters (and why do bots hate “really”?)
Saw this response in the NYT today… it was posted in response to the Gail Collins & Bret Stephens weekly “conversation” column. I too commented…