Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


You Can’t Reach Everybody

And everybody does not know. If everybody in the U.S. watched Sunday night’s John Oliver show, the Big Beautiful Bill would be dead on arrival. But almost no one does. In case you’re not a viewer of this HBO institution, once or twice a season John Oliver pulls a stunt. Recently, he offered to rebrand […]

Mamdani

The people want change. That’s been the story of the past three decades, rapid upheaval, great leaps forward with some getting ahead and some left behind and those on the left want to deny it as much as those on the right want to rewrite the history of the sixties. So now we’ve got overanalysis […]

The Bezos/Sanchez Wedding

Is this the end of late stage capitalism? Or to put it another way, is this equivalent of LET THEM EAT CAKE! This affair is so tone-deaf. It illustrates the point that just because you’re rich, that does not mean you’re a fully rounded personality who can read the room, never mind society. Example #1? […]

The Hitler Documentary

“Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial” Netflix trailer: rb.gy/mrxhgk I just wasn’t satisfied by the fake. No drama was resonating, from the foreign to the domestic, from crime to relationship comedy, nothing was floating my boat. I needed down home reality. Which is why I watched the Titan documentary. That having resonated, I watched […]