Today I had to run an errand and, as I’ve noted before, my car radio is generally tuned to the local conservative station in town. The 15 minutes I spent in the car was during Rush Limbaugh‘s time slot. I will say it right up front. I despise Rush. He represents everything that I find […]

If you’re over the age of 30 you may not be aware of a huge undercurrent shift that’s taking place and that shift has everything to do with the future of cable television. The fact is that a huge percentage of our populace below the age of 30 have virtually no interest in anything on […]

A curious by-product of aging is that cultural references that were once common in your life suddenly become less so with each passing decade. You invoke the reference only to be surrounded by a lot of blank stares. My favorite example of this involved my trying to describe a couple I know and said, “They’re […]

The huge chasm between the right and left of politics in America isn’t going to abate until both sides can admit that reason is being trumped by ulterior motives. A case in point was had on the local conservative radio station here that I checked in on while at the gym (the bike I chose […]

Google is releasing a new product called Google Drive. It’s going to be their take on the phenomenon that is Dropbox. Yes, there are other competitors as well—including Microsoft‘s SkyDrive—but none of them matter other than Dropbox. If you haven’t gotten into Dropbox yet then you’re not very techie and don’t know what you’re missing. […]

I’m continually astounded by the sheer number of areas where Republicans claim to be supporters of the Constitution and the concept of capitalism along with being dead-set against other concepts like socialism or nationalism, only to then go down a path that clearly stands in sharp contrast to all those stated concerns. During the administration […]

I just picked up a Roku 2 XS.  For those of you that have no idea what this is, it’s a little squarish box that streams content to your TV. I’ve been looking at products from this company for quite some time. Roku has been developing similar devices for years now and the “2” is […]

The conservative media is up in arms about the HBO movie about Sarah Palin and the 2008 bid for the White House. The attacks are all extremely predictable: HBO is a bastion of liberal Hollywood elitists bent on the destruction of traditional American values and the indoctrination of easily-led would-be socialists. Of course 95% of […]

In the Republican stratosphere no one plays to a bunch of blind followers more than Sean Hannity. The man will say and do anything with zero regard for any sense of irony or hypocrisy what-so-ever. Tonight, while at the gym, I caught just a few minutes of his show during coverage of the primaries in […]

When I first heard about Rush Limbaugh‘s comments regarding Sandra Fluke, I started to wonder how it was the radio host managed to come to the conclusion that his position on this was on any sort of solid footing. Don’t get me wrong: Limbaugh, as I noted, has a history of insulting comments but this […]

I will state right off that I’m not a Rush Limbaugh fan in any way other than to credit him for becoming so successful. I’ve been aware of Limbaugh since the late 80’s. His approach has never wavered. It’s always political shock value of the highest order. For many years I believed that’s all it […]

I’m a big Netflix fan. The concept is clearly representative of where we’re all heading even if that future doesn’t specifically involve Netflix themselves. Streaming video on demand is what most everyone has been looking for since the first modem showed up decades ago. It was just a matter of time and bandwidth.Now that Netflix […]