Well, Let Me Say This About That is an interesting twist on current events, as told by Dallas’ finest and funniest Craig McCartney.
In 1967, CBS had a roster of popular programming featuring a rural setting. The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres were among them. But the critics were unimpressed. Television programming had already been called a “vast wasteland” by the FCC chairman a half dozen years earlier. A clever critic at The Saturday Evening Post quipped in a review […]
For a man who has been dead for almost six years, Jeffrey Epstein is sure getting around these days. As much as I’d rather not, I’ll put on a hazmat suit and jump in like Robert Kennedy, Jr., swimming in sewage. Without getting too deep in the muck, Epstein pled (which I prefer to “pleaded”) guilty in Florida to a […]
Does anybody remember those toy necklaces that were strung together with little stems that were kind of popped into little holes in little plastic pearls? Of course, that was a gendered toy when I was a child, so I never possessed them. Now I have all of Mother’s pearl necklaces as well as those of my aunt Mozelle, not to […]
Well, the issue du jour is the big, beautiful bill, which is now on its way to signing by Trump. But by this time next week, there likely will be another issue for our collective consideration that will push the BBB into the file cabinet where it will rest with all the other previous issues du jour that we thought to be so life upending. […]
“Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring.” Scarlett O’Hara’s first words at the beginning of Gone with the Wind strike an interesting note this week following America’s bombing of Iran. Of course, it’s summer now, and I’ve only had lunch or cocktails and no party yet, but we ramp up things […]
Daddy had several thoughts about the federal government. He believed that any benefit that it granted should be taken as soon as it was available, as the government might change its mind at any time. That said, he advised me to have as little to do with it as I could reasonably and legally manage. Taxes were to be minimized […]
One of the challenging things about writing commentary about whatever is topical, whether it is social, political or cultural, is doing so while the subject is playing out in real time. Sometimes that subject is fraught with such significance that it can’t be overlooked as this week’s topic, even though I would much rather go in on Audra McDonald’s performance […]
It was a term that I first encountered during my early teens, and I inferred its meaning from the context in which I found it. It meant something approximating the middle class, although I didn’t comprehend all the nuances associated with the word at that time. I most certainly did not know how to pronounce it. I gave it a […]
One of life’s loveliest sensations is waking up on one’s own after sunrise when light has filled the room, and there’s no immediate need to get out of bed. Perhaps we doze off again, or maybe just enjoy the comfort of the pillows and the warmth provided by whatever we cover up with at night. Earlier this week, I had […]
Scarlett O’Hara herself told us that money is the most important thing in the world. Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey won Oscars in part for singing to us that money makes the world go around. As Leslie Benedict in Giant, Elizabeth Taylor tells James Dean playing Jett Rink, “Money isn’t all you know, Jett.” He simply replies, “Not when you’ve […]
