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The Death of Comedy

Posted by on Mar 30, 2022 in Blog, Rants and Raves | 0 comments

 

 

The biggest loser in the now-infamous punchslap seen-’round-the-world thrown at the Oscars on Sunday night wasn’t Will Smith, nor the Academy Awards. The biggest loser was comedy. More precisely, stand-up comedy.

Comedy might be dead given what happened. Real comedy. Freewheeling comedy. Ad-lib comedy. Impromptu comedy. All dead.

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Biden’s Gaffe in Warsaw Speech Was Dumb

Posted by on Mar 26, 2022 in Blog, Essays, Politics, What's Left | 2 comments

 

 

Things were going about as well as we could have hoped in the Ukraine-Russia war, particularly from an American foreign policy standpoint.

Without committing American/NATO forces on the ground or enforcing a dangerous no-fly zone, U.S. involvement in the conflict appeared to strike the perfect balance. Ukraine was not only defending the homeland valiantly, many reports indicated the situation could be deteriorating badly for the Russians. In other words, Ukraine might ultimately pull this thing out, survive, and become stronger than ever. Let’s hope.

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