I’ve been around for a long time. I was born in 1957 and consider myself lucky to have lived a good portion of my life when America was at its peak. I’ve also spent a good portion of my life watching America being actively degraded. This isn’t the country that I grew up in. We used to have standards. My family was poor, but we had middle-class values. The house was kept clean, the children were fed and well dressed, and we knew that if we got into trouble, we would be shaming the family, which in my household was one of the worst crimes you could possibly commit. We weren’t the only family like that. Most of the neighbors …
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I’m sure this post will get me labeled as a heartless, cranky old man. So be it. As I posted early this week, I purchased an air fryer in the hopes of having a somewhat healthier diet. I’ve been experimenting with it and so far have cooked some chicken breasts and French fries, both of which were quite good. One of the great features of the air fryer is that it crisps food, giving it a nice texture and adding a great deal of flavor. I was thinking about it and decided that using an air fryer might be a good way to cook shaved steak for a cheese steak (I know, not exactly healthy, but I’m in the experimental …
I grew up watching Star Trek (1966–1969), known now as Star Trek: The Original Series. I loved the show, watched it every week, and attended all the Star Trek movies. Even today, I prefer it to any successor. At the time of its original airing, it was way beyond anything on TV. The stories were well done and thoughtful, the characters were interesting and likable, and the special effects were cutting-edge. Like all of us, though, age has not been good to it. Even with remastering and new special effects, it looks dated, and while it’s still fun, the stories often don’t hold up in today’s more sophisticated world. That said, I still love it, and I’m willing to look …
I grew up at the beginning of the space age. I remember, as a child, gathering in the school gym, huddled around a small black-and-white TV with rabbit ears and a snowy picture, watching America’s first steps into ‘the final frontier.’ I loved Star Trek, I loved science fiction, and I loved the idea that someday, we would travel to the stars. The librarians at the Thomas Crane Library in North Quincy would try to protect me from all these crazy ideas by preventing me from checking out adult science fiction books; Danny Dunn was OK, Tom Swift was fine, but reading something from radicals like Asimov or Clarke certainly was not. Their attempts did not work; instead of taking …
I watched the final episode of ‘According to Jim’ yesterday. I had to rush through the last few episodes since Amazon informed me a few days ago that they were soon to leave the platform. This has happened to me before. I was in the middle of binge-watching ‘The Twilight Zone’ when, with little notice, Amazon pulled it from its streaming service. This gets frustrating. I’ll decide I want to watch a show, watch a single episode each day, and then the dreaded notice appears saying that ‘xxx is leaving in x days. Amazon claims that their policy is a 14-day notice, but I’m not sure I believe them. Often, it seems like shows leave with just a few days’ …
The last few weeks, it seems like every where I go on the Internet I’m being assaulted with reviews of the new McDonald’s Big Arch. In case you’ve somehow missed all the hype, the Big Arch is a double burger topped with three cheese slices, lettuce, onions, pickles and Big Arch sauce, which the marketing department describes as ‘tangy, creamy, with the perfect balance of mustard, pickle and sweet tomato flavors.’ Depending where you live the Big Arch will cost you anywhere from $7.46 to $12.99. The even bigger price is the number of calories it contains, which comes in at a whopping 1020. I’ve posted an article in the past about how much I hate McDonald’s. Their food is …
This was posted in the comments section of a New York Post article. It was written by someone calling themselves Not_A_Lib DonkeypoxIsKillingAmerica and I think it expresses what a lot of us feel. we are a society circling the drain… Today’s generation is the inevitable product of decades of liberal indoctrination, soft parenting, and a media culture that prizes emotion over intellect. They’ve been spoon-fed victimhood, wrapped in moral superiority, and taught to mistake ignorance for virtue. The result? A generation that’s both arrogant and uninformed — loud enough to preach, but too shallow to think. Social media has crowned this generation’s new prophets: influencers and activists whose only qualifications are vanity and outrage. The self-proclaimed “enlightened” class now leads …
The Academy Awards took place on Sunday night and as usual, I went out of my way not to watch. Why is it that so called ‘creatives’ always feel the need to get together, pat themselves on the backs and tell the world how special they are? Possible low self esteem? You don’t see awards ceremonies for plumbers, factory workers or garbage men and I would say that each of those groups do more to benefit society than any of the people that play pretend for a living. It’s not bad enough that they’re obsessed with themselves, but they also believe that their ability to act somehow gives them the right to lecture the rest of us about politics and …
I posted the above on Facebook, but I’m putting it here too since I have no doubt it will soon disappear into the ether. It’s scary and disgraceful what’s going on in the world right now. A small percentage of the population is in the process of destroying freedoms and rights that make out country and civilization unique. Maybe they truly believe their making the world a better place but I suspect that for the most part they’re just a bunch of insecure losers with pathetic lives that get off destroying people for their own sadistic gratification.
We all knew this was coming but it still hurts. Limbaugh was an incredible man that was both inciteful and entertaining. He stood up when most others were afraid to do so and let the rest of us know that it was ok to be conservative. For over thirty plus years, five days a week, three hours a day he educated and entertained us and it never got boring. That’s a pretty big accomplishment. I’m convinced that the country would be in a much worse place today if it wasn’t for Rush. He slowed down the take over by the left and trained a generation of people how to fight for what you believe in. Thank you Rush. The world …
