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24.04.2025
The week hasn’t started out well for Trump. Or for Pete Hegseth, either. It began with the breaking news that, once again, Defense Secretary Hegseth invited family members onto a group chat...
Recently, I wrote about how at the very early start of Amy Poehler’s career, before joining SNL, did she improv with two Chicago groups, Second City and the Upright Citizens Brigade – during...
23.04.2025
Larry David wrote a guest op-ed essay for the New York Times yesterday. It's creepily funny, pointed and wonderful. While I want to post the whole thing here, I'm a bit torn: I have a...
A couple weeks ago, I wrote here about my 2008 application (written in the form of an epic poem) to be poet laureate of California. It came after then Gov. Schwarzenegger was looking to name one...
22.04.2025
Last week, I wrote here about the inexplicable problem Trump was causing for himself with a Supreme Court whose majority has shown it will bend far-over backwards to allow him to do most anything,...
Tomorrow, on Tuesday, April 22, the TCM channel is airing the movie “ Missing” at 11 PM (PST). The time will likely differ in your area. I bring this up for two reasons. The first is that...
21.04.2025
From the archives. This week's contestant is Stacy Fahrion from Denver, Colorado. The hidden song was on the tip of my tongue, and I knew I knew it, but I just couldn't place it. And then I...
On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki. As the show writes, she joins Jon this week to offer insight into...
20.04.2025
On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild offer more highlights from previous shows when they sat down with actors. This time around, their guests include Jane...
In this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is former Daily Show correspondent and stand-up comedian Roy Wood, Jr. His...
19.04.2025
This past Wednesday, Chris Hayes did a terrific story on his MSNBC show about one of the lesser-discussed and major problems caused by Trump's actions, enabled by the MAGOPs in Congress. And that's...
Actually, we have a couple of new Rainbows. Well...I think we have two that are new. But we have them both for two reasons. To start, though, here's the latest song parody from Randy Rainbow. ...
18.04.2025
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story was about...well, let's just say it starts with the Trump administration massive mishandling of the mistaken...
With Judge James Boasberg saying that probable cause exists for him to consider contempt charges against the Trump administration over their refusal to act or even respond properly to his ruling that...
17.04.2025
If you didn’t see Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver last night, the Main Story was on the tariffs that Trump and enabling MAGOPs are imposing on the world. As you might imagine, the show has a...
When I was back in Chicago -- Evanston actually, staying just a few blocks from the beloved Northwestern -- I saw the news story on how the Trump administration (in its ongoing fascist effort to...
16.04.2025
Well, I'm back in Los Angeles, and the elves have left the place in reasonably good shape and didn't leave the refrigerator completely raided. I'll have something else later today, but while I'm...
When you read this, I will be on my way back to Los Angeles from Chicago. Yes, it's an early flight, and I've gotten up much earlier in the morning that I tend to prefer. But I'll be back soon. ...
I posted this last year, but it's appropriate to mark the day with the good people once more. And further, this may be among their least-known, most improbable, and yet still funny material. ...
15.04.2025
There are few things I find that evoke more smiles that a pack of really, really, really happy dogs. And these are really, really, really happy dogs greeting their caretaker at a shelter. One can...
This is sort of an odd column, because I don’t have a clue what’s going on with the Trump/MAGOP-approved tariffs. What makes me comfortable writing about that is I don’t get the idea that...
14.04.2025
On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. As the show writes, "As the economy reels from Trump's sweeping tariffs, Jon...
From the archives. The guest this week is Roger Reynolds from Ashland, Virginia. I got the hidden song almost immediately, and it's one of the least-hidden songs that Bruce Adolphe has done, so...
13.04.2025
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is Catherine Rampell, opinion columnist for the Washington Post and co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend . As Al writes, “Despite widespread warnings...
Since tonight is the first night of Passover, and this is called Saturday Night Seder , it seems a fine time to post it. This is a wonderfully entertaining “Seder” that was done four years...
12.04.2025
The other day, when the stock market rose 3,000 points after Trump was largely forced to temporarily pause his tariffs against every country in the world -- other than China whose tariff he raised...
I come visit Chicago every year – at times twice a year. And I had plans to come this Spring at some time. But there is a specific reason I came right now – a reason which even the elves back...
11.04.2025
The other day, when posting the video of Alysa Liu winning the Gold Medal for women's figure skating at the World Championships held in Boston in late May, I mentioned that the U.S. team won three...
There was an article the other day, especially admit the stock market meltdown, the corporate CEOs were starting to have regrets about supporting Trump. My reaction began with -- well, better late...
10.04.2025
In my article last Friday here about the very basic concepts of tariffs that the Trump/MAGOPs are ignoring and avoiding to explain, which are potentially disastrous, I left out one very important...
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story was about the disastrous rollout of Trump's tariff policy, along with its impact on the stock market plummet. As...
09.04.2025
Last Thursday, Rachel Maddow presented a story on MSNBC about how the Trump administration enacted a range of draconian measures against the state of Maine -- and no other state in the country --...
I'm a week behind on this, but better late then never. As we head into a Winter Olympics year just 10 months away in 2026, the final figure skating World Championships before the Games were held in...
Being in Chicago now, I was talking last night with the elves back in Los Angeles taking care of the homestead, and they asked if I had any plans of going to Wrigley Field to see a Cubs game. I...
08.04.2025
Well, I've arrived in Chicago, along with the rest of the Elisberg Industries team. We were all able to squeeze into the backseat of the taxi. And the good news is that, when talking to the elves...
The proprietors of Elisberg Industries are leaving on a corporate retreat this morning for a few days to Chicago. In the interim, the company elves have arrived at the homestead to keep the lights...
07.04.2025
On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild welcome David's early musical hero and longtime friend Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates) to a long distance Zoom "Lunch." As they...
On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, they write that “Senator Bernie Sanders joins Jon Stewart to discuss how government institutions need to find the will to better serve...
06.04.2025
From the archives. The contestant Kate Lamberton of Hanover, PA. I didn’t have a clue with the composer style, though I was surprised that my only guess was in the right genre and...
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is former chief White House correspondent for CNN Jessica Yellin. As Al writes, “A potentially catastrophic breach of security within The White House...