Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Re-Long Hair & Tattoos

Original article: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/10/long-hair-tattoos/ The original e-mail that inspired my screed: Bob…. Long time reader and have enjoyed your postings so much but what is your thing against long hair on guys? I just played a big outdoor festival up here in Alaska this weekend and there were tons of guys with long hair and tattoos, […]

Long Hair & Tattoos

Rock and roll was the other. Outsiders questioning precepts. It was anything but me-too. No one wore their hair long before the Beatles. And isn’t it interesting that today Paul & Ringo wear their hair short, and have for quite a while. They don’t want to be boxed in by an identity, they don’t want […]

Democratic Socialism

Used to be if you wanted to know which way the wind blew, you’d listen to a record. But we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969. Why? It’s cracking me up watching Washington, D.C. and the Democratic establishment and long in the tooth commentators flip out about democratic socialism. It’s like parents reacting to […]

CNN

Why are oldsters and Hollywood fighting a passé war? At least CNN does more reporting than Fox, even MS Now, but the truth is hardly anyone is watching and the outlet, like its two political competitors, is basically a hotbed of analysis and argument which younger generations refuse to engage with. CNN reaches 711,000 primetime […]