Well, Let Me Say This About That is an interesting twist on current events, as told by Dallas’ finest and funniest Craig McCartney.
Memory being a somewhat fuzzy commodity, I’m not clear on when I first saw Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant Rashomon. I think I was in college, and it probably was part of a film series offered by the school. In any event, it was years ago, and my remembrance of it has been about the four characters offering different versions of the […]
It starts at birth, when each new bundle of joy is wrapped in either a blue or pink blanket, and the gender based conditioning begins. Before anyone even gets to Kindergarten, the concept of sex is introduced and, perhaps more importantly, the idea of the “opposite” sex. In the binary system I was born into, that put basically half of […]
Growing up, my grandmother lived with us until her death when I was nine. From that point until I went off to college, it was just Mother, Daddy, and me. Two opinionated adults and a somewhat precocious child. If Mother and Daddy had been of one mind in their points of view, my childhood could have been an indoctrination. But […]
Karl loves the paper shredder. I would rather bite a concrete curb than hear the horrible sound it makes. So on those rare occasions when I have to use it, I break his “one sheet at a time” rule and end up stuffing too much paper into the slot. Then that grinding slows down to a growl and then a groan and then nothing. […]
Impeachment, polls, Giuliani, and DeGeneres have left precious little time for the Democratic presidential primary campaign. So, with yet another debate next week, here’s a little recap to remind you who’s still in the game…sort of.
In less fraught political times, the Amber Guyger trial for the murder of Botham Jean would have probably been the top national news story instead of being one of those “In other news” stories to which it was relegated. After all, with a white female police officer killing a black man in his own living room being the story line, […]
OFF AND RUNNING Unless you’ve been hiding somewhere off the grid—and there’s some good reasons to do just that—it isn’t news that Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of a formal impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump and his now infamous July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky, as well as his administration’s attempts to cover up the whistleblower complaint that […]
Well, it seems you can teach an old dog new tricks. Maybe not the four-legged variety, although I know just the dog whisperer par excellence if you need one. But one of the two-footed kind, whose right one is way heavier than the left. It may be hard to imagine today when oil companies have such influence in Washington, but […]
Saying that no one can throw shade like a queen leaves one open to the charge of stating the obvious, kind of like the newscasters this week telling us that the barrier islands affected by Hurricane Dorian are surrounded by water. (Perhaps they are looking for a job in the Trump administration.) And, before anyone jumps up my backside, I’m […]
With the final word coming down from the DNC that there are ten candidates who qualified to participate in the September 12 Democratic presidential debate, it was as if I was transported back to those childhood days watching Miss America. As anyone who has ever watched pageants knows, the real show doesn’t start until we’re down to the semi-finalists. That’s […]
