With the exception of the news that a judge declared Obamacare unconstitutional, it has been a generally lousy few days for Pres. Donald Trump. Last week his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail, and it sounds like he’s really been spilling the beans on Trump and all the goings-on with the…
The top supermodel in the world? You’re looking at her. Kendall Jenner.
This is more sure-fire proof that being a half-sister to the Kardashians is always a good career move. The list of the top-earning supermodels for 2018 is topped by Kendall Jenner, who earned $22.5 million. Karlie Kloss, best known for being pals with Taylor Swift, is a distant second at $13 mil. I post this…
Now a few words about DAZN and all its inroads into Canada
I was going to talk about this last week, but since DAZN aired the Canelo Alvarez fight last night (in which he beat up on Rocky Fielding at MSG), I think it’s still timely to talk about the inroads this European company has made into Canada lately, with all the sports rights they are picking…
Congrats, politically correct people, you’ve just made a hit out of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”!
The attempt by the politically-correct fascists to censor “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and get it banned from radio playlists over its “problematic” Bill Cosby-esque lyrics (what’s in this drink?) is turning into a failure. Everyone sees it now for what it is: repressionism. Just the other day, CBC Radio had to walk back on its…
Chaos in the UK as Theresa May fights (successfully) to keep her job
I have wasted my day following the drama in the United Kingdom as Tory backbench dissidents have forced a confidence vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s leadership, soon after she pulled a vote on the Brexit deal that was scheduled for this week. What chaos over there. The vote has been going on as we…
Big winter storm whacking North Carolina and Virginia!
How do you like winter storm season? If you are travelling, you probably don’t like it very much. Here is a Weather Channel story on their self-titled “Winter Storm Diego” which is mainly whacking North Carolina and Virginia. Other states are impacted as well with snow, heavy rains and floods. From my vantage point here…
It’s official: at long last Seattle is joining the NHL in 2021!
It was confirmed today: the 32nd NHL expansion franchise goes to Seattle. At long last, the home of Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks and grunge music is home to the NHL. Great news for a city with a good hockey history and fan base (WHL), and it is a place I’ve been to multiple times as well….
Christmas under attack again, Trump mad at GM, and more News from Nowhere
This will be a very brief News from Nowhere for this Sunday: Reaction continues to pour in on the death of Pres. George H.W. Bush. The news definitely put a damper on the G20 meetings in Buenos Aires. Meanwhile in France, there are mass riots over their fuel tax. And the Ukraine is under threat…
This College Football Playoff selection is BS! Who cares about the season!!
I am currently spending my Sunday morning watching a bunch of ESPN college football pundits arguing on TV about whether Oklahoma, Ohio State or Georgia should be selected by the selection committee as the last one of the top-4 teams to be included in the College Football Playoff. Surprisingly to me, a lot of people…
The news is that former Pres. George H.W. Bush is dead at 94
The news broke last night that George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States has died at age 94. The story from Fox News here. Also, this from the New York Times on his final days. Also, here’s a piece about Bush’s time at the CIA, which I found interesting. New York Stock Exchange…
7.0 Earthquake hits Anchorage, Alaska!
Scary times in Anchorage today, looks like there’s lots of damage from today’s 7.0 earthquake. The tsunami warnings have been cancelled, but lots of power outages still reported. Tweet from Sarah Palin: 🙏🏼 for Alaska. Our family is intact – house is not… I imagine that’s the case for many, many others. So thankful to…
Brexit deal done with EU; who knows whether it will get past Parliament
Got news today that the Brexit deal between Britain and the leaders of the EU is agreed to. Now the real fun begins as Prime Minister Theresa May tries to sell this deal — which they are calling the “only deal possible” — to her MPs. Good luck with that. Already, we are hearing lots…
Speaking of Dallas: today is the 55th anniversary of JFK’s assassination
Thanksgiving falls on an especially grim date in history this year.
A movie I’d go see – Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
It’s NFL Thanksgiving, and that surely means the Dallas Cowboys are in action again. Speaking of which — a new movie has been released this month about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It’s called Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It focuses on that period in the Seventies when…
It’s official, I’m in a rut. I’m in the midst of a news “slump.”
I am currently in the middle of “meeting season” where my beat requires me to cover endless public meetings, usually in the evenings when everyone else is at home, in the hope it might produce news for the paper. Unfortunately, these most recent meetings have been getting boring. At the latest one I was at,…
Trump loses one round in his ongoing never-ending war with the media
Well, it was yet another crazy week in the Upset States of America. The war between Pres. Donald Trump and the media took another turn this week as lawyers for CNN tried to get Jim Acosta’s White House press pass restored in court. On Friday they won their court fight, so Acosta is now back…
The sad story today is that screenwriter William Goldman has died
The guy best known for writing screenplays for The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, among others, who also once famously said “nobody knows anything” in Hollywood, was 87.
Stan Lee, of Marvel fame, has died
As a comic book geek of long standing, I was saddened to hear that Marvel Comics legendary co-creator Stan Lee has passed away at age 95. In memory of and and in honor of Stan Lee, here below is a montage of all his cameo movie appearances. RIP.
California wildfire situation still bad. Paradise, CA pretty much destroyed
It is sad times in California. The wildfires rage on in both southern and Northern California. It sounds like the town of Paradise, California, in the northern part of the state, has been totally destroyed. As for southern California, I am mainly watching their news channels. It sounds like the wind will pick up again…
Who cares about Trump! Fires burning out of control around Malibu
I do not want to see any more news coverage of crazy Donald Trump today. Instead, I want to see real news coverage about these horrible fires raging around Malibu and environs! This is terrible! I was transfixed watching the live coverage from LA this afternoon about these wildfires. The entire city of Malibu is…
Bad News Roundup: Thousand Oaks shootings tops the list
Well, folks, today was a bad “News” day for a lot of reasons. The top bad news of the day: the mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California overnight that left 12 people dead. The second piece of bad news: the angry mob attacks outside the home of Tucker Carlson. Third piece of…
Oh, brother. One day after the election, Trump eats the press!
What a display today, folks. Just one day after the GOP lost the House to the Democrats in the midterms, a diminished-looking Pres. Donald Trump, supposedly the leader of the free world, once again acted like some third-rate hick town politician by giving a dressing down to CNN’s Jim Acosta at a wild news conference…
Instant analysis of the midterm election results
Just a few thoughts on the results so far: Been watching a lot of “theblaze” election coverage tonight on YouTube (Glenn Beck and his folks) and I agree with what their pundits are saying which is: after all of what the Democrats, the media, the Hollywood crowd, and everyone else threw at Trump and the…
Democrats take back the House; GOP holds the Senate
That’s it, Trump is getting impeached. Fox News now projects Democrats will gain control of the House. — Brit Hume (@brithume) November 7, 2018 BREAKING: The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years. https://t.co/4yNg8n30sj pic.twitter.com/kA8joAhvti — Fox News (@FoxNews) November…
It is Midterm Election Night in America 2018, the moment of truth for Trump
Election results start to roll in this evening from the United States, and we will see whether they are truly the United States or are instead the Upset States based on the votes cast. Of course, I have referred to that place as the Upset States for years. If it is indeed the latter, it…
Trump’s final rally of the election is on in Cape Girardeau
I am currently watching Pres. Donald Trump at his last rally of the campaign in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and they have pulled out all the stops tonight. They brought out Lee Greenwood to sing “God Bless the USA”, they brought out home town hero Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity, and Judge Jeanine Pirro, and Ivanka…
Trump is making enemies out of lots of non-Americans in this election!
I have been spending the last few days getting caught up on all the attack ads going on in this US election, not to mention all of Donald Trump’s crazy rallies which are littering YouTube as usual. Honestly, this American off-year election has been depressing. What bothers me the most is all the vitriol being…
The last word on Megyn Kelly’s abysmal NBC flame-out
I really don’t have a lot to say about Megyn Kelly and her big NBC implosion over her “blackface” Halloween comments on-air last week that got her ejected from her show. It was exactly the sort of inappropriate comment you could see Kelly making sooner or later; she really does tend to push the politically-incorrect…
Bad News Roundup: it’s all bad news from Pittsburgh, Leicester City, and elsewhere
Just before posting this morning, I thought I would take a look at all the news sites to see if more bad news had popped up overnight. The good news is there isn’t, at least nothing major, which is good because we have enough bad news already. What an unbelievable week. First, there were those…
A day of pipe bomb near-mayhem in the USA
I don’t call the place the Upset States for nothing. Pipe bombs sent today to Ex-Pres. Obama, the Clintons, George Soros, CNN, etc. There is just too much hate in the ‘States these days. Lock the perpetrator up! America right now. Playing out live on @CNN pic.twitter.com/aCRGG4xoW2 — Don Lemon (@donlemon) October 24, 2018 Needless…
Now, the final word on Toronto, and Brampton’s, crazy election night
As expected, yesterday’s municipal election results produced plenty of drama, with some shocking defeats of longtime and well known council incumbents. Joe Mihevc. Norm Kelly. Giorgio Mammoliti! But the biggest upset was right next door in the city of Brampton where Patrick Brown was elected mayor. Wow. After all of Brown’s personal chaos and controversy,…
Municipal Election Day in Toronto! Lots of city councillors soon to be out of jobs
So, today is the municipal election in Toronto and environs. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a very interesting mayor’s race in Toronto: incumbent Mayor John Tory seems to have it pretty much wrapped up against opponents such as the left-wing’s preferred candidate Jennifer Keesmaat and that absolute alt-right lunatic Faith Goldy (!)…
Halloween comes early to the box office! $77.5 million!!
The one thing I notice about October at the box office is that it is usually always a good month for horror movies. This was a very big opening weekend for Halloween. This latest reboot of the original starring Jamie Lee Curtis opened to a big domestic haul of $77.5 million. This is the second…
Lewis Hamilton could clinch F1 title today in Austin, Texas! (Update: No, he doesn’t.)
Instead of watching NFL football today, my plan is to watch Lewis Hamilton wrap up the Formula 1 title at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas — which also happens to be the first F1 race in quite a while to be seen on North American TV at a reasonable hour of the…
HLN bloodbath: Ashleigh Banfield, Carol Costello, Michaela Pereira out the door!
Wow, what a bloodbath today at HLN. They have cancelled their New York and LA-based production and centralized all production to Atlanta, and will also be doing more long-form investigative-type shows in the future. As a result, the HLN live programming starring Ashleigh Banfield, Carol Costello, and Michaela Pereira is cancelled and they are out…
Khabib and McGregor: suspended!!
It’s official, the Nevada State Athletic Commission has officially suspended the two idiots, ahem, I mean combatants from the main event of UFC 229 because of that WWE-worthy brawl that ensued when Khabib left the ring. What a farce. Maybe Dana White should suspend these two permanently from the UFC, because what went down on…
What a mess Michael has made in the Florida panhandle
Yikes, folks, I have been catching up on some of the Michael hurricane damage reports out of Florida today and it sounds like the Florida panhandle really got whacked. Honestly, I did not expect this storm to get as strong as it did. I thought maybe it would only be a category 2 or 3,…
Here we go again, another hurricane! Michael bears down on the panhandle
Well, great. Columbus Day is now “get the heck out of here” Day in the Florida panhandle as Michael is now at hurricane strength and headed straight their way. It should hit by midweek. I am spending my day off enjoying Tallahassee’s news streaming of the approaching big storm, in between commercial breaks of live…
All heck breaks loose at UFC 229!!!
This is not at the level of Mike Tyson biting off Evander Holyfield’s ear, but it is close. Khabib Nurmagomedov retained his title, and then a huge fracas ensued straight after the fight at #UFC229https://t.co/NDORDYA01e — Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) October 7, 2018 There’s chaos. Brawls. This is horrible. — Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) October 7, 2018 Never…
Khabib vs McGregor is on!! Most anticipated UFC fight ever
This is it! The champion Khabib Nurmagomedov takes on No. 1 Conor McGregor for the UFC lightweight title tonight at UFC 229 in Las Vegas! This should be something else, simply because McGregor is involved and he’s a wild man. The pay-per-view is on right now as we speak, but the cheapskates out there who…
