A couple days ago, a Facebook memory popped up in my feed. I had posted a press release sent by Texas DPS in July of 2013. DPS was notifying people of bag inspections before you could walk into the Texas Capitol:During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to…
Rush Limbaugh may have been divisive, but regardless of your position on his politics he was a pioneer…
Loyal Scaiaholics will recall my complicated history with Alex Trebek. All accounts are that Trebek [I’ll still really hit the “T,” but do so in a more somber fashion] was a wonderful man who established a genuine connection with fans and contestants.https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1325495244784168960https://twitter.com/BoyerMichel/status/1326003182271664129And he’s still helping…
This is a period of great political strife, and by “political strife,” I mean, “We were all looking forward to seeing fewer political posts on Facebook.”I understand why people are upset. All of our Facebook associates are posting about politics even more. And totally changing each other’s minds. And, to a lesser extent, we still don’t know…
The year was 2016. On election night, I was catching up with elected officials at local watch parties [Kids, “watch parties” were events where people would gather on election nights to watch returns before society was disbanded.].That year, reliable polls indicated Donald Trump would lose handily, so I elected [see what I did there, using the verb, “elected,” but…
I’ve been called a liberal before because I work in the media.I’ve also been called a conservative mouthpiece because I work in AM radio.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall my blog from the midterms two years ago when the “Text People to Ask for Their Support, Which I’m Sure Totally Works Soooo Often” industry was just getting…
Loyal Scaiaholics have surely learned the procedure for this by now: I’m going to tell you I don’t blog about politics and then write a blog about politics.As one of the 143 Americans who is *not* running for the Democratic presidential nomination [although my exploratory committee is still researching whether my message of politics as a whole…