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Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
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Despite the casual loathing of Jews everywhere, despite the millennia old blood libel, the Third Reich was only able to make that loathing lethal...
…AND I’M GONNA SAY IT NOW. I recently hired the son of a friend to do a bit of cleanup of the mess that...
FIRST AS CAUTION, SECOND AS CALAMITY. I am an American, and to once again paraphrase and borrow from the work of another apparently difficult...
…TWO A slew, a spew, of unassailable facts, informed opinion, and the potential of wild, self-serving conjecture. As for the order in which these...
…STAYED FOR THE BULLSHIT. The Roaring Twenties. Well, no; not exactly. And now, if you’ll forgive my pedantry… …The phrase started out as Damon...
I hurt someone’s feelings on FACEBOOK, a few days ago, through the reckless expression of an opinion, based on that time honored concept, contempt...
“Don’t work blue…” – RED SKELTON “PC crap is hurting comedy.” – JERRY SEINFELD “Fuck that bullshit.” – ALI WONG To my genuine surprise,...
*Literally translated, “When the Messiah Comes.” In actual usage, a sarcastic/dismissive response, to, for example, “When can I/we_____?” or “When will you/they______?” in reply,...
I gather, from a Facebook post this morning, that another cartoonist has joined the ranks of those afflicted by Shmuckholm Syndrome. Oh, well. In...
…AND, OF COURSE, TRIGGER WARNINGS I spend considerable time in hotel rooms, eighty days a year on average. This past month, I spent ten...
“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” ...
…PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO RECONSIDER THE MEANING OF FRIENDSHIP.” I come from an avowedly left-wing family, its politics dating back to well before the...
I had been tweaking a substack piece about my misreading of popular culture, and my struggle to finally understand it, before I left the...
I have a fun time when I open YouTube and there’s some fresh trailer waiting for me. Well, I have to say it’s not...
YOU CAN WORK AT WHAT YOU LOVE EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE — IT’S STILL FUCKING WORK. I was born in 1950. I am...
UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED. Four years ago, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock Art, Music, and overflowing portable toilet festival,...
…BUT FAIR I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve seen A CHORUS LINE, at one time the longest running show on...
…And over familiarity. I am often taken to task by enthusiasts for my dismissive, ruthless and callous dismissal of much, if not most, of...
… ESTIMATION OF THE AUDIENCE, OF COURSE. I have to assume that most of you who read these screeds are at least marginally aware...
Here we are in March 2023, and it struck me the other day as I sat watching trailers ahead of Ant-Man and The Wasp:...
RIMSHOT! We’re here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitress. And drive home safely. But seriously, folks… Most, if not all, of you...
I’ve read a number of dismissive posts in regard to YOU PEOPLE, the latest, and typically fatuous, version of GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER,...
I spent the first thirty-five years of my life in New York City. For the record, and I assume many of you who are...
(With no apologies whatsoever to that fucking Norman Podhoretz.) I’ve told the story frequently, if not incessantly, of how I was introduced to comic...