Archive for the 'Politics' Category


Credibility

Are you watching this Hulu show “Paradise”? I take notice of the volume of hype. If a show is reviewed everywhere, that means the producer/distributor has a lot invested in it, and I need to pay a modicum of attention. I usually look at the last paragraph of the review. And maybe the first. Oftentimes […]

Leaders

We are looking for great. I spent all day in the cancer ward at Cedars getting an infusion of IVIG for my pemphigus foliaceus. As the fourth doctor I saw in eighteen months who finally diagnosed it said… Don’t Google it. In any event, IVIG cleans out the toxins from the blood so you itch […]

Perception Vs. Reality

578,000. That’s how many people watch CNN during primetime. If you had that number of streams on Spotify, you’d keep your day job. If you only got that number of views on YouTube or TikTok, you might call yourself an influencer, but you wouldn’t be that influential. But conventional wisdom is CNN is this monolith […]

Trump

Can the Democrats admit they lost? Can they stop blaming the election of Trump on THOSE people, continue to refuse to accept any responsibility for his election? I don’t want to talk to one more Democrat who wants to explain away perception. That really, most people are not woke, that trans… This never works, never […]