Yesterday, without so much as a peep from Gabriel’s trumpet, Armageddon was declared. No, I am not referring to the Armageddon heralded by that corpulent holdout at the Oregon bird sanctuary who, as of this writing, is probably stuffing his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Charlie Hebdo
On April 10 at Long Island University, Garry Trudeau accepted the George Polk Career Award for his lifetime of work on Doonesbury. In his acceptance speech Trudeau addressed January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre, in which twelve people were killed at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deep Fried and its attendant shenanigans will post on Wednesday. In the meantime, I’ve got something to get off my chest. So, now that the blood has been wrung out of the mops at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There have been any number of critical responses to the Charlie Hebdo massacre containing opinions that differ from my own, and no harm done, but Arthur Chu, the Daily Beast’s nerd-culture columnist, has woken the dragon! (That’s nerd bait.) I don’t begrudge Chu’s right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday morning I awoke to the hostile antics of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, a syndicated zoo crew on Rochester’s KISS FM. I am occasionally subjected to the Elvis Duran show when the dial on my 30-year-old clock radio wanders[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…