Recent Comments

1. about 6 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   This, at least, would seem to relieve NPR# (or maybe in a larger sense, the CPB) of the charges that it is rife with liberals on the one hand, and too “white” on the other. My conclusion remains that this week’s (got the apostrophe in there this time) cartoons have been a total loss, at least when compared to other examples of multi-cartoon, single theme offerings.

   (#) I’m of the notion that some NPR programs, other than news programs, have a liberal bias. Is there any public or private information/entertainment organ that doesn’t have a cultural or political leaning one way or the other? I doubt it. The issue here is whether or not NPR keeps, in its news programs, a pretty clear and distinct wall between opinion and news. This seems to be the case as regards NPR, and it seems to be much less so as regards Fox (which conflates news with its conservative opinion bias), for example, and, perhaps, other entities which depend wholly on advertising and corporate money for their existence, be they liberal or conservative. Some few years ago, NPR’s 1A had a representative from Fox on the program at pretty regular intervals; for the Friday Roundups, I think. So there’s that fact to consider, too. I don’t know that Fox has ever given equal time and equal respect to any “liberal” representative. I guess there used to be a token liberal present once in a while to be treated as a 3rd banana.
2. about 6 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   Even if all this is true, it’s still not the same thing as “legaliz[ing] an open border.” The “asylum system” arrangement is also written into law, which Biden, as the chief executive, cannot countermand on his own or violate (without breaking the law, both of which are violations of his oath of office). Trump broke this one (the asylum law) and other immigration laws as well. His actions were repudiated by every court they went up against. I suspect that the only thing that will cut down on the years long influx of undocumented and asylum seeking immigrants is when the living conditions in their respective home countries become safe and the employment opportunities get better. As long as the ravages of war, poverty, political instability and violence, racism, internecine conflicts, crime, drugs, disease, and wanton gang violence don’t go away instead of getting continually worse, the influx will continue. Nothing in the US’s bag of legislative tricks will accomplish a single one of those goals in other nations; we can’t even seem to make headway in our own nation.

3. about 9 hours ago on Chip Bok

   Fact checking should verify the points in my comment. The idea that RFK would have been nominated was speculation on my part, but I still think that his chances were better than any of the others who vied for the nomination. Whether RFK could have whipped Nixon is a good question, I think. The previous year or two’s upheavals had poisoned a lot of wells and the Democrats had been calling the shots pretty much since FDR was elected in ’32. The party and the electorate were splintered before and after the nominations; too much so to give the laurels to most any available Democrat; certainly not Humphrey or McGovern or Muskie regardless of the fact that any of them would have had a better administration — if not Presidency — than Nixon, and CERTAINLY a better presidency than Ford#.

   (#) Remember the slogan: “What we need is a Lincoln and what we got is a Ford”?
4. about 9 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   Well then, “JT” or “DJ.” But probably NOT “DT.” [ ;-) ]

5. about 9 hours ago on Lisa Benson

   I thought he was referring to Trump and the Access Hollywood tape.

6. about 16 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   I understand. When I was about 4 one of our nearby neighbors retired from his long time factory job. It was a filthy, wretched place to work, but he survived. He was really well liked by everyone. I particularly recall his gentleness and the way he rolled his own with Prince Albert. Anyway, a few days after he retired he fell off the ladder changing the upstairs storms to screens; the injury was serious and he died a few days later. I vividly remember the regretful remark the man next door to us made in the aftermath: “Papaw worked there all them years. And then this happened to him right after he quit. Ain’t it turrible?”

   This was the first time that someone I knew and liked died. Somehow that experience sorta haunted me, and it wasn’t until surviving for a month or more after my own retirement that the years long background feeling of post retirement dread went away.

   I recall the episode every time I change out the windows, including yesterday. I pondered then, whether I, being well into my 8th decade, would still relish the ritual, or even continue to do it, if I had to work outside from a ladder.

7. about 16 hours ago on Zack Hill

   That junk is only for people who don’t like the taste of coffee. I like my Dad’s take on the beverage: “Make mine black, hot, and strong enough to float a horseshoe.”

8. about 16 hours ago on Truth Facts

   “Hold my beer and watch this.” This was the response of the patient to the nurse when he woke up and she asked him, “What’s the last thing you remember?”

9. about 16 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Looks like he drew to a pair, to me.

10. about 16 hours ago on Speed Bump

    Sure wouldn’t be Beethoven. No scowl. No shock of real hair. A switched on# Bach a much better bet.

    (#) cf. Timothy Leary’s axiom.