Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


My Birthday Video

Watch it until the very very end:  I was shocked when I saw this. Positively speechless. And then I told Felice, “Now I’ve got to retire.” She made it for my birthday. The morning thereof she asked me whether I wanted my present before or after skiing. I said after, I always say later, […]

Disney/DeSantis

You don’t mess with the Mouse. Conventional wisdom was Bob Chapek lost his job as a result of wading into politicized cultural issues. But now Iger has doubled-down. Let’s be clear, the government is the underdog when it comes to battles with corporations. Sure, you can regulate, but never forget you need their money to […]

Tucker Carlson

He was working for the man. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you’re on, that’s not what this is about. This is about the fact that Tucker Carlson was an employee and now he lost his job. As Bob Dylan so famously sang forty years ago, we’ve all gotta serve somebody. So […]

It’s Snowing

And today it reached ninety four degrees in the Coachella Valley. When I lived in Utah, I was stuck in Utah. I could get in my car and drive twelve hours to Los Angeles, but flying was out of the question, and long distance phone calls were expensive. You left town and never heard of […]