“The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America”: https://tinyurl.com/mryc7n8c This is the real “Hillbilly Elegy.” If you want to understand the rural MAGA mentality, this is the place. What we’ve got here is Clinton, Arkansas. Not Fayetteville, the hip Arkansas, not Little Rock, the urban Arkansas, but nowhere Arkansas, where […]

People don’t like the streamers. The only company with any good will left is Netflix, which even I am less than enthusiastic about since it canned the woman who made the highbrow halo productions for someone green-lighting middle of the road, dumbed-down fare, the kind that caused the networks to lose market share to the […]

Hubris on parade. Why is it CEOs and Big Swinging Dicks believe their sh*t doesn’t stink? And it’s almost always males. Women are about community, helping each other, being aware of each other, and although there are exceptions this all comes from Deborah Tannen, a Ph.D., as opposed to the self-proclaimed scientific experts who are […]

From: Dan Navarro  Subject: Re: Affirmative Action Were it not for Affirmative Action in 1969, I would not have been able to attend UCLA immediately upon high school graduation. I was admitted under the Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) that looked past my mediocre grades, and into my wide range of activities, strong letters of recommendation, […]