I watched Mickey’s Christmas Carol last night. As you may know, I’m something of a Christmas Carol connoisseur. I read it every single year on the five days leading up to Christmas. I love seeing different adaptations of it. My favorite is The Muppet’s Christmas Carol. Mickey’s is surprisingly good, though. For those who haven’t…
Reuters had a headline today “Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row”. This is good news but not perfect. It’s three short. He should have commuted the sentences of all of them. The three that he did not commute are the Boston Marathon bomber, the shooter at Emanuel African Methodist…
I get at least two holiday cards every year. And I get no more than three holiday cards every year. I get one from my parents. Each year it has a picture of my kid, my niece, and my nephew. I get one from my friend, whom I wrote about in this post. That one…
A question that runs through my mind almost constantly is, “Who cares?” I think it when I read the news, when I overhear people talking, as I scroll through social media, and a bunch of other times. The reason I think “who cares” is because people are always making proclamations. Pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza….
Asking what talent is may seem silly. It’s something we can all identify. Yo Yo Ma is a talented cellist. Shohei Ohtani is a talented baseball player. Kate Atkinson is a talented writer. Everyone knows these things. But what is talent? That’s a much harder that simply identifying talent. The internet defines talent as “natural…
I’ve listened to Christmas in the Stars: A Star Wars Christmas Album a lot over the years. I started listening to it as a little kid, and it’s still one of my favorites. When I was little there were two parts of the album that I didn’t really get. One was in the song, “What…
Donald Trump said on Truth Social, “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Taking him at his word, which is always dangerous with a BS artist like Trump, I agree. We should end Daylight Savings Time. In other words, we…
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I listen to a lot of music. That includes lots of Christmas Music. For holiday music, I have jazz, blues, rock, gospel, country, pops, and klezmer. But I only have two classical albums. Another way of putting it is I have about 200 classical albums in my…
According to the internet, etiquette is, “the customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group.” I’m certainly no expert on what most people think of when they think of etiquette. I don’t know what the differences are between forks. I have no idea who to invite to…
In my last post, Our Messed-Up Healthcare System, I made a parenthetical reference to unemployment and how that deserved a rant of its own. Here, for your consideration, is that rant. And I am in Connecticut. I know it’s a little different in each state, but it’s close enough that anyone will have similar experiences….
