How fitting that President Obama, who made the wimpburger the symbol of his domestic and foreign policy, delivered his chest-pounding farewell address in the crime capital of America. Tut-tut, however. This was no time for reality, no time to confess that: Chicagoans – mostly black — are slaughtering each other at a record clip that only would be impressive if … Read More
Abolish the Electoral College
Dr. Gyi
This is the second time in recent history that the winner of the popular vote did not win enough electoral votes to win the White House. The unique feature of the Nov. 8 presidential election was the fact that Hillary Clinton won 2.8 million more popular votes than Donald Trump. Not only that, she also won more votes than Donald … Read More
Cheap Streep Flails and Falls Back
Meryl Streep. Photo: ABC News
Just before slipping back into Hollywood irrelevancy, smarmy Meryl Streep, the noted political commentator, took a swipe the other night at the almost-president of the United States. Shrewd, eh? How better to revive a 67-year-old’s flagging career. The liberal senior citizen wore a plunging neckline to the Golden Globes. Unsurprisingly, no one looked. If her eye-free body couldn’t attract a … Read More
Born to Crashing Drama Merely Was Opening Act
John Cassese, The Dance Doctor, with long-time partner Janelle Wax
Second in a series. Re: “Success Leveraged by Heartbreak – One Man’s Dramatic Life” John Cassese does not merely possess a flair for drama –he backs it up with real life pathos. At the outset of a screening of his compelling show-business-with-a-flair biography (“John Cassese: American Story”) in the living room of his longtime Pacific Palisades home, the Santa Monica-based … Read More
When the Shockingly Unexpected Visits You
Almost without interruption, I have been religious all of my life, from the day I was born to committed parents. Religious persons may not live so differently from others. What distinguishes them, us, is how they react when crises befall them. When my wife died in 2015, I was certain this was the darkest shadow that could envelop me. I … Read More
Racism Here, Racism There, Racism Everywhere
Libbies cannot make up their bigoted little minds. Is same preferable? Or is opposite more desirable? Several years ago, gun-toting libby bullies told the world, “Accept gay marriage or be branded a racist, and we will kill you.” A terrified, intimidated world made gay love legal for the first time in the history of the planet. Men talk about their … Read More
Every School Board Member Wins Extra Year
Mr. Arnold
First in a series. Midway through his first year as the immensely congenial superintendent of the School District, Josh Arnold was explaining why Culver City School Board members, and their colleagues across the state, recently were awarded an extra year in office. “Years and years ago,” he was saying, “it was thought to be a best-practice for school board elections … Read More
Polystyrene on Minds, Not on Agenda
Mr. Clarke
As quietly and unobtrusively as a church rodent, the City Council convenes its first meeting of the new year this evening at 7 – miles away from the subject on the minds of nearly everyone: The approaching ban on polystyrene food containers, expected to take hold around July. This is the time of summer when such ubiquitous plastic, torn into … Read More
Ask a Lib to Say ‘We Are No. 2’
Mr. Trump. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
As if today’s rainstorm secretly had been plotted and planned by undercover meteorologists on a sunny day in the war year of 1944, the crowd of suckers known as Hillary Hopers wants naïve Americans to swallow the nonsense that Russia swayed the election from Sneaks Clinton to Donald J. Trump. Like unhealthy fish who have overimbibed, liberals have been flailing … Read More
My Buddy and I Could Be Twins
Elf is my favorite 2-D movie. Its royalty is noted by the fact that it joins my 3-D movies on my iPhone’s flash drive. My longtime dream was to have a special movie theatre near me that showed all the old 3-D movies. This never was realized. But My virtual reality setup is much better. I am thrilled that I … Read More