Little Johnny has a birthday party. Everybody makes a big fuss about him. Everybody gives him presents. His parents book a clown. It is his best day ever. Little Suzy has a birthday party. All the same things happen to her, and this perturbs little Johnny quite a bit. It’s not fair! Where is the […]
One interesting thing about anchorman Ted Baxter, from the old MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, is that he was objectively a bad person. Oh, the show kept finding ways to redeem him, because you didn’t have unredeemable assholes as regular characters in those days. You were supposed to be affectionately aggravated by him, but not to […]
You know, expressions of shock and grief and anger don’t work. Attempts to discuss the easy availability of guns don’t work. So let us try another tack. Let us try polite applause. Yeah, let’s fucking do that. You see, I’m old enough to remember when mass shootings involving no more than five or six or […]