Ball Diamond Ball

Recently I had someone come in from out of town. I thought I would treat them to something special. In the East we treat our guests right. This is the outside of a Dime 5 Star. One notices right off the start the most modern technology is being used. Yes, that is the Waitress 5000 Vending Machine. All you do is push the right buttons and you get your ticket for culinary delights. As you can see from the posters this lunch was not in the 10s but in the 100s. When have you paid 500 or more for a … Continue reading →

I wonder what the Democrats are saying about Donald Trump  Hmm.  Let’s ask Mona Charen. 

Fifty dead and counting in Vegas massacre.  It’s not just that the count goes on.  People are still dying of their wounds.

Some things are absolute, and some things are relative.  Absolute is the fact that this animal deserves Hell, whether one exists or not.  More nuanced is the approach the media will take.  The wager of the decade is live now in Las Vegas — place your bets! — as democrats wait and see whether they should condemn the shooting and the shooter, or explain away the behavior as the predictable result of some disenfranchisement.  Depraved because a deprived.  My money’s on red.

How do people change?

I often thinks of Madison Avenue and how they try to change people’s habits. They go for the “bank shot” instead of logic. They sell the sizzle not the steak. They sell the mood not the make. I remember being a young child wanting the sugary cereal because of the commercials. Basically they were selling candy for breakfast. Also it has been an axiom with me that the worse the product the better the commercial. Those products like the lottery sell the win but never the lost.

In politics as in life the facts matter but it is not usually how things are sold. People buy dreams and love “fairy tales”. We never get far away from the child within us. The person with … Continue reading →

Those are considered the first four stages of grief.

I have two liberal female friends, both excellent artists – one in theater, one in visual arts – who have for nine months been appalled, aggrieved, furious, at the election of Donald Trump. I never bring up politics with them because they are good-hearted people and I don’t like to argue.

Friday one called to talk about her theater season, but she soon veered into telling me how difficult it has been for her to direct her plays lately, it’s like she has a mental block; she’s tired and depressed. She described a scene in one of her plays that takes place in a jungle, then asked, in a tiny, pleading, worn voice, how can anyone deny that there’s global … Continue reading →

and some traveling music….

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The dust is settling.

North Korea is still a problem, but we are putting real pressure on them.

The GOPe owns the Obamacare failure.

Puerto Rico needs help so badly their Democrat Governor refuses to play racism nonsense and praises the aid measure.

The NFL players and Owners just got a lesson in the dangers of bubblevision.

Even the Editor in Chief at NRO is chastising the kneejerk reflex NeverRights on his payroll.

The congress now has to deliver something of significance and Tax Reform is teed up.

Ever since the stars fell on Alabama (ten points for the pop culture ref) it seems we are moving … Continue reading →

Some of you may have noticed a marked improvement in the quality and quantity of posts and phone calls around here.  Well, I’ve been busy.  But I wrote next month’s schedule, and I’ll be available during decent hours once more.  So the usual slipshod standards will return, and things will feel a bit more like home around here.  Like somebody else’s home.  With dirty laundry on the sofa.