My pitch for a new TV show: ‘DR.COP.LAW’

JUST WHAT AMERICA HAS BEEN WAITING FOR. Yet another show about cops. And doctors. And lawyers. But this time there’s a twist! Meet Dr. Jack Newsome. He’s a fully certified brain surgeon. But he’s also a federal prosecutor who just happens to be the Chief of Police in Pleasantville, California. We all know America loves […]

MOCKERY

Where is Bill Hicks when you need him? Oh, well – Jimmy Kimmel will have to do. Humor, sarcasm and outright mockery are effective ways to deal with dictators, especially those as loathsome and corrupt as the amateurs who currently run our country. Tyrants despise humor, and their sense of humor rarely rises above the […]

PLAYING DRUMS

Tearing down and setting up. That’s the worst thing about playing drums in a classic rock band. Especially at my age. Tearing them down, packing them in the van; taking them out of the van; setting them up; tearing them down again, cramming them in the van and hauling them back again. Doing all of […]

VENICE BEACH

No matter how many times I return to Los Angeles, I always make a point of visiting Venice Beach. The nearly two-mile beachfront walk is the quintessential L.A. experience, and it‘s usually the highlight of my trip. If you’ve never been there I will take you. Venice Beach is the biggest open-air freak-show on the […]

NEVER LEAVE AGAIN

When you first went away it was only for awhileBut I lost all self-control and I almost ruined the houseBy the time that you came back and saw the disaster I madeI was in tears and afraid and I ran to you and said: Never Leave Again! All I have to offer you is my […]

OBEY!

Obedience to authority is one of the hallmarks of the Trump cult. Dozens of recent studies have shown how the “conservative” mind is different from normal human brains. People with fascistic views are ruled (fittingly enough) by the ‘reptilian’ part of the brain – the most primitive and un-evolved region of the brain stem. Because […]

WHITE FOLKS: THEY SO FUNNY!

There are a lot of really scared people in this country right now. They are terrified of immigrants and women and homosexuals; they fear science, diversity, Hispanics, Natives, Blacks — or even worse — mixed race people like me. Most of all, they fear change.  They are worried that America will soon be unrecognizable, and […]

THE LANGUAGE OF INCOMPETENCE

A growing body of research confirms that incompetence robs people of the ability to recognize their own stupidity. In other words: dumb people are too dumb to realize it. The Dunning–Kruger effect originates from a cognitive bias study conducted at Cornell University in which incompetent individuals were shown to suffer from the illusion of superiority, […]

BACKDOOR MAN

Whatever the outcome of the made-for-TV “feud” between President Donald Trump and Dr. Evil Elon Musk, the fact is that Trump didn’t “fire” Musk. Musk and his evil DOGE minions spent the last 5 months auditing all of the federal governments computer infrastructure, running AI surveillance scans on all the data. They were looking for […]