Archive for the 'Politics' Category


C.T.E.

This is what happens when government and big business refuse to address a problem or pay lip service and sweep it under the rug. Roger Goodell makes in the neighborhood of $65 million a year, do you think he’s going to do anything that challenges the financial success of the NFL? Ditto United Health. The […]

Out Of Touch

“Inside the Rise of the Multiracial Right” Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/24/opinion/minority-voters-trump-right.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk8.UsOJ.lYWoS2WHSg0N&smid=url-share This is the most important article you will read today. When I wrote about Maggie Q in “Ballard,” I was accused of Asian hate. Not by an Asian woman, but by a white man. If I mention anything negative about a woman, I get blowback […]

Firing Colbert

You NEGOTIATE! Which is how we know that CBS canceled the “Late Show” for political reasons. Let me see now… You take a top producer, a revenue positive show, and you cancel it willy-nilly? Let’s say income is down. Then like the news outlets, you renegotiate the contracts with the talent, you give them the […]

Youthquake

This is society’s Napster moment. They never could kill P2P with the legal system. It took a bright twentysomething from a foreign country to save the record labels’ lunch. And now said labels are trying to survive by purchasing the distribution systems of much younger companies led by entrepreneurs. NO ONE running a major label […]