Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Ramirez/Kavanaugh

Everybody knows the prep school kids are the worst offenders. You think we live in an homogeneous society, all starting from the same line, with the same information, with melting pot backgrounds with various pluses and minuses that balance out in the end. You’re very wrong. I went to a melting pot high school. There […]

Beto O’Rourke

He pointed. That’s one of the first things you learn in media training, not to. You remember Bill Clinton, with his arm outstretched, thumb tucked into his fist, they called him “Slick Willie,” one thing’s for sure, Beto O’Rourke is not slick. We need leaders. And there’s a vacuum in the Democratic Party. And give […]

Fergusons

I’m just a son of a son, son of a son Son of a son of a sailor The sea’s in my veins, my tradition remains I’m just glad I don’t live in a trailer “Son Of A Son Of A Sailor” Jimmy Buffett But I do now! I’m spending the weekend in an Airstream […]

The Emmy Ratings

Goin’ down…down, down, down, down, DOWN! As Don Nix so famously wrote. What did they used to say, tweeting would save event television? That live was everything? Utter hogwash. You’ve got to read the pundits’ comments on why the Emmy ratings tanked. The shows were too sophisticated, they didn’t feature meat and potato actors, the […]