States with low population density and Republican governors are looking good to me these days: North/South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska… I would put Idaho and Utah on that list but they’re filling up with Californians. Arizona and Texas may flip blue in the future; Texas sooner than Arizona. The movement to disband police departments is picking […]
Chris Martin Palmer is a man I hadn’t heard of until the terrorism of last weekend. He is an ESPN reporter. He expressed praise for the rioters on social media, posting a photo of a low-income building burning in Minneapolis. “Burn that sh#t down” he said. Then the rioters came to HIS neighborhood and stood […]
In a Mexican kitchen someone is always patting tortillas, or grinding chilies and garlic in a molcajete. Strings of dried anchoes and serranoes hang from cupboard knobs like desiccated placentas. As a child, I waited at the table for food and learned what magic smells like; cilantro, cumin, tamarind. Sweat is also an ingredient. Sara’s […]
In a busy field of marketing icons, she stood out; quaint, dignified, not cool like the Energizer bunny, pretty, not sexy. The butter maiden was drawn by an Ojibwa man, but everything is racist these days. The Left won’t be happy until all our unique histories are washed from public memory. It was suggested that […]
Nothing says “I live alone” like a self-inflicted haircut. I purchased a hair trimmer a few years ago and am finally putting it to good use–or not. Fear is a low flame these days; hot, but cooks slower. I’ve been listening to YouTube pundits talking about the economy: Glen Beck, Joe Rogan, Tim Pool, etc. […]
From a recent editorial in BILD: “…you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft. China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on it’s own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don’t let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest […]
Kowtow is a Chinese word meaning deep prostration, in which the person lays face-down on the ground. Europeans used to kneel before the king and bow from the waist to nobles. Today we shake hands. Sometimes, guys will nod as a friendly gesture towards each other, a way of saying “I mean you no harm.” […]
Madonna took a bath in milk that was sprinkled with rose petals, and with her personal piano player in the bathroom with her. And now she’s receiving flack for it. First of all, she’s my age and she looks pretty damn good. Second, this is the Madonna I remember from the 90’s; edgy, a little […]
The Mexican Mercado down the street from my house had no corn tortillas in the refrigerated case; plenty of flour tortillas; we Aztecs prefer corn. I asked the clerk at the register if corn tortillas would arrive tomorrow. She fished around underneath the counter and held up two packages of corn tortillas. One package held […]
Tommy and his family went to a park that has a public swimming pool. He and his wife sat on a bench and his kids played in the pool. His eight year old daughter told him that a man grabbed her bottom in the pool. Tommy asked her to identify him. When he confronted the […]
I still don’t know what to make of Jojo Rabbit, a movie about a 10 year old German boy entranced with Adolf Hitler and all things Nazi. Hitler is his invisible friend, appearing to him at various moments to offer encouragement and to remind him of his duty to the Fatherland. He joins Hitler Youth […]
Saw 1917 last night. Superb acting, script, cinematography. The movie seems shot as one long scene with few detectable breaks, few points where the director yells “cut”. The scene where George Mackay wanders through a forest guided by a wisp of a song which grows clearer as he nears its source, is a good example […]
Kobe Bryant is dead. A helicopter he was riding in crashed. His daughter and another child who were going to a basketball game were with him; all died. Falling out of the sky is one of the worst ways to die I can think of. My sympathy to all the families. But let’s not descend […]
I once read a poem about a horse who poked his head through a barbed wire fence to nibble grass on the other side. Something spooked the horse and he jerked his head sideways, tearing a jagged hole in his neck. The author of the poem witnessed the event when he was a child growing […]
Uncut Gems is a portrait of a man addicted to gambling, who makes one bad decision after another; who tries to reduce the consequences of his last bad decision by making yet another bad decision. His face is a map of stress, he owes money to everyone in the world, he gets beat up when […]