ALEX CASTLE
I had a moment of genuine shock a couple of days after the election. (The election itself wasn’t shocking so much as being gradually overtaken by a creeping sense of existential dread.) Still blankly trying to process how the nation could have elected the world’s emptiest combover, still fixated on the part how everybody, even [ ]
After a primary season that included approximately 247 debates, 63 candidates, more than 388,000 tweets (over 382,000 from @realdonaldtrump), and 44 “campaign-killing” gaffes (also all by Trump), and two party conventions, we’ve finally made it to the General Election. Break out the champagne, and the mood stabilizers! The Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, somehow still standing [ ]
A consistent feature of our nation’s long debate over whether and how to combat the ongoing problem of people who shouldn’t be getting shot getting shot has been the argument that our society would be safer if more of us were carrying firearms. While another faction has responded to the growing number of mass shootings [ ]
I found myself watching Francis Ford Coppola s undisputed all-time heavyweight champion of Serious Cinema, The Godfather, on HBO not long ago. Actually, it was the newfangled five-hour monstrosity The Godfather Saga, which combines The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, rearranges them into chronological order, so the De Niro-as-Young Don Corleone scenes are first, then [ ]
What would you guess sentient Internet comment and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would say is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world? Real Estate is, of course, Trump s primary business. It is the keystone of his fortune and his greatest claim to fame (which is, of course, his secondary business). [ ]
This blog has not been reticent in its support for Bernie Sanders. The conscientious reader may recall our hearty endorsement a few months back. TL;DR: Bernie Sanders has been on the right side of pretty much every issue where everyone else was wrong (and wrong at tremendous cost). His ideas about free college and fully [ ]
Even with my advanced age and near-total lack of exposure to pop music in the year of our Lord 2016 a year in which my most recent live-music experience was with the world s premier classic Van Halen tribute band I couldn t help being taken in by the exciting release of Beyoncé s new album, [ ]
Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players ever and bar none the easiest to root against, played his final NBA game this week, a come-from-behind win over Memphis that served as an exciting end to a 20-year career distinguished by five NBA titles, an MVP award, 18 All-Star games, and a rape trial settled [ ]
The race for the Democratic nomination for president is starting to get nasty, or what passes for nasty in the Democratic race: Hillary Clinton s demurral when asked whether Bernie Sanders is qualified to be president was reported as her stating that he is not, and Sanders retorted that Clinton s votes and past positions on the [ ]
AC/DC lead screecher Brian Johnson has had a lot of bad news lately. First his doctors told him that the massive hearing loss he’d sustained over the course of his 35-year career emceeing a show that, in addition to a literal wall of Marshall stacks, included actual cannon fire at the end of every performance, [ ]