Chris Christie’s Crumble
It has bothered me for awhile, the slow-but-apparent downfall of Chris Christie. The details are secondary and oddly contentious, but one cannot deny this: He once seemed an almost shoe-in for the...
View ArticleA Borderline Concern
I wish that I could sit and write, when depressed. It’s a sort of altered, dreamlike state, a place that cannot be captured when in a ‘right’ mind. It might also be a self-absorbed, self-pitying place,...
View ArticleHis Friends Called Him ‘Hank’
I was supposed to have jury duty, last week. I looked forward to it, in a perverse sort of way. Before appearing, the case was settled, delayed, or otherwise disappeared, much as it was the last time...
View ArticleThe Daily Wrap, on Newsmax
The Daily Wrap, Live from New York City, a new offering from Newsmax TV. Joe Concha, best-known to those in the know as a columnist for Mediaite, is your genial host. His equally(if not more...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Rump
Columns are hard. You need elements; a beginning, a middle, an end. Sometimes the end is the hardest part, like bringing it in for a landing. There has to be something that pulls it all together....
View ArticleAbortion Avenue
1984 was a strange year. That combination of youth and semi-bipolar that causes one to volunteer on an ambulance for 100 hours a week, plus the not-infrequent paying job. Between that and childbirth,...
View ArticleCan Rihanna Move On?
This business with Rihanna bothers me. As a partial result of heightened consciousness in matters of domestic violence, CBS has chosen to stop using her music as their Thursday Night Football theme. I...
View ArticleShepard Smith, Medicine Man
Remember Ebola? That was so last week, but allow me a few leftover thoughts. I hate that I can’t find a clip from October 14’s Shepard Smith Reporting, where Mr. Smith was discussing Ebola. There was...
View ArticleBenghazi Begone?
The Benghazi attack. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. If you watch Fox, you’ve heard a lot about it. Much of the coverage was a justified counterpoint to the relative lack elsewhere: Four Americans were...
View ArticleVaccine Perspective
My son has Asperger’s. He was diagnosed in 1999, at age five. The word ‘autism’ was still a mysterious thing to me, something that I recalled from a segment on 60 Minutes, decades earlier. But that was...
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