This will be blessedly short. Especially by the standards of this website. Yes, it’s well-established that Trump throws so much garbage at the wall almost every day, people have to spend...

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17.05.2025

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There’s a wonderful reason for all this, bear with me. I’ve long been a big admirer of George Plimpton, who was the erudite editor of the Paris Review and a serious writer – a compatriot of...

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16.05.2025

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Trump’s $400 million airplane bribe from Qatar is so overwhelming a blatant grift that it deserves a follow-up from Tuesday's article. That’s because there was so much that was so utterly...

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16.05.2025

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We’re going to continue with our Shirley Booth roundelay, because I came across another huge treat. As I mentioned the other day, though most people who know of her through her comedy series...

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15.05.2025

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The other day, on Mothers Day, I noted when posting “Song of the Ma” sung by Shirley Booth that she had been in several musicals, one of which was Look to the Lilies, based on the classic movie...

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15.05.2025

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A few years ago, a friend from back in Glencoe, Mike Katz, wrote and produced a dark comedy, Remembering Phil. And happily, it was just added to the free, movie website Tubi. The film is about a...

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15.05.2025

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Among all the talk for many weeks now about tariffs, a thought occurred to me the other day – one which I’ve occasionally heard referenced in a related way – but it strikes me as so pointed...

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14.05.2025

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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, it was wonderful. Rather than diving back to look at the past week of Trump, he only went back the past few days, since there...

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14.05.2025

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As should be clear by now, grifting to Trump is second nature, much like how other people need food for sustenance. The courts shut down his charity foundation over grifting, for goodness sake....

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13.05.2025

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Robert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. Elisberg is a two-time recipient of the Lucille...

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13.05.2025

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If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver last night, his Main Story about about politics and religion, specifically focusing on the group Alliance Defending Freedom which wants to...

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13.05.2025

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On Saturday, I saw on the RawStory website what might be one of my favorite headlines since Trump took office -- a standard with a lot of competition. It read:

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12.05.2025

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We'll finish our Mother's Day celebration with one of my favorite songs about mothers -- and one of the littlest known, I'd think. It's from an unsuccessful musical, Juno , that opened in 1959...

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12.05.2025

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I'm still a bit bewildered that for all of the years I’ve been posting videos on Mother’s Day -- and for all the mentions and videos I’ve posted of Mike Nichols and Elaine May -- that I never...

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12.05.2025

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For year's I was unable to post the original and best (by far) version of this song. But last year, finally, I was. O huzzah. It's a terrific song written for the original Broadway production...

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12.05.2025

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Continuing our Mothers Day Fest, here's another little-known songs about mothers,. And therein lies the tale. There are a lot of albums out with songs that were cut from Broadway shows. From a...

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11.05.2025

Although for years the celebration moved around the calendar a bit more than in the past and was therefore somewhat difficult to track down (no pun intended), today -- we are full of joy to announce...

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11.05.2025

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From the archives. This week's contestant is Mitchell Shapiro from Fort Lee, New Jersey. And sorry, you’re on your own on this one. There were a couple points where I could hear a theme...

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10.05.2025

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I've written in the past a few times about my friend Steve Fiffer back in Chicago (okay, Evanston...). Steve is a wonderful writer, with many non-fiction books to his credit -- including most...

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10.05.2025

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This story didn’t get much attention. It’s not “news,” per se, but nonetheless very important, I think. It did receive brief coverage Wednesday on CNN, and then the next morning some...

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09.05.2025

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Randy Rainbow has a new song parody, and it's a good one. The song is based on one from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which only adds to the whimsy of the number. And not only is the...

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09.05.2025

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I wrote about this here twelve years ago, but it's is an especially great time to repeat the story. That's because today, May 8, is the 80th anniversary of arguably one of the two most-famous radio...

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09.05.2025

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The news must be hell for people in St. Louis. Since the headlines now read: "Cardinals pick Chicagoan to be Pope." And -- "Cardinals declare Chicagoan to be closer to God than them." In...

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08.05.2025

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Watching clips from Trump's Sunday interview on "Meet the Press," one other thing stood out for me beyond just disastrous, problematic statements he's been making -- led by his "I don't know" when...

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08.05.2025

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Yesterday, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) asked a very simple question to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. And the Secretary's extensive effort to avoid answering, along with Pocan's relentless, but...

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08.05.2025

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Last week, I was talking with my friend Myles Berkowtiz about the papal conclave, and as the chat meandered to related topics, he wondered about the wildly irreverent character Don Novello created,...

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07.05.2025

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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, his Main Story focused on Trump's statements during his disastrous interview on Meet the Press, along with some of his other...

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07.05.2025

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On Sunday, Trump sent out of his long, manic social media postings about saving Hollywood by imposing tariffs on “any and all” productions that are filmed overseas and shown in the U.S. This...

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06.05.2025

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If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, the Main Story was about Deportations. It's a galling story, which should be clear from the news, but the breadth of their...

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06.05.2025

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Yesterday, Trump sat down to be interviewed on Meet the Press. If you only had half-an-eye on the news, you have a good idea where it's going. As at least the starting point. KRISTEN...

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05.05.2025

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We have a new one this week. And…and YIPES!, two weeks in a row, we have another first. Last week, the first was a contestant for the Piano Puzzler being someone who is a reader of this website...

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05.05.2025

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On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is Ezra Klein, host of The New York Times podcast "The Ezra Klein Show" and co-author of "Abundance,". As the show writes, “As...

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04.05.2025

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On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is actress Amanda Seyfried. Her conversation with host Peter Sagal is pretty...

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04.05.2025

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On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild welcome director, writer & former Rolling Stone journalist Cameron Crowe to discuss the release of "Tom Petty: Heartbreakers...

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03.05.2025

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"Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more." Let me translate from the original French -- "Let them eat cake." I...

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03.05.2025

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You may have seen news coverage of the wonderful, very blunt speech that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker gave in Manchester, New Hampshire on Sunday. (As much coverage as the speech received, it was...

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02.05.2025

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There has been a massive amount of head-scratching about how bewildering Trump's actions have been since taking office, most notably starting with being handed the best economy in the world blowing...

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02.05.2025

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Your reminder that the distress call "May Day!!" comes from the French term, "m'aidez" -- meaning "help me." Happy May Day, as Americans are showing their willingness to help themselves and one...

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02.05.2025

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Welcome to Fine Arts Corner, a service provided by Elisberg Industries in our proprietor's ongoing, uphill effort to make it seem like, on occasion -- and on the surface -- that, in addition to our...

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01.05.2025

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If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show, it was a look at the first 100 days of Trump's new administration. It will not shock you to learn that the piece was...

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