Regarding pop music, Miley Cyrus once said, “It’s not the notes you play that matter, it’s the notes you don’t.” Wait, that was Miles Davis, and he was speaking about jazz. Oh, and there’s no proof he ever said it. You gotta be careful with quotes. As in, don’t pass a ...

Last September I penned a piece speculating about the consequences should Roe v. Wade be overturned. Seems like a good time for an update. Keep in mind, abortion ain’t my wheelhouse, or my bailiwick, or my (consults thesaurus) demesne; during my days as den mother to Hollywood GOPs, I could ...

Hollywood’s been Jewish from the get-go, but “racial loyalty” never trumped the bottom line. People who lose money for the bosses get canned, Jew or not. Similarly, Hollywood might be leftist in its racial politics, but in past decades adherence to profitability always took precedence. The ...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 53 years on this earth, it’s to never interrupt a good mania. Because you can’t. Manias simply have to play themselves out. In 2020, the mania on the right about how Covid came from a Chinese lab was so intense that when I pointed out that there was ...

As a youth, I was privileged to personally observe Willis Carto in his prime. For those too young to remember, Carto was the QAnon/Alex Jones of the pre-internet era. His newspaper, The Spotlight, was a wide-circulation “conspiracy blog” in hard-copy form. Carto catered to those on the right ...

“Hey, conservatives: I present to you a no-lose issue with broad-based appeal. Schools are teaching that biological sex doesn’t exist, ‘women’ are a social construct, and small children should be told they can swap genders. You can ride this one to victory!” Establishment conservatives: ...

Don’t Loughner me, bro. Remember Jared Loughner? He’s the nutbag who shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and killed (among others) a federal judge and a small child. Loughner was a schizo lost in his own head, his sanity drowned in a sea of byzantine “theories of everything.” He was ...

Comedy was on my mind last week, for three coincidental reasons. Reason No. 1: Jowly failed 1980s stand-up “comedian” Dana Gould called me a Holocaust denier. I was commenting in a Twitter thread about how Gould is the guy who killed The Simpsons (he took over as executive producer in the ...

This week’s column might come off as mawkish, but I’ll take that risk, as I want to revisit last week’s theme from a more personal angle. I’m writing this on what would’ve been my mom’s 91st birthday. And next week will be the seventh anniversary of her passing. So she’s very much ...

I don’t care for kids; that’s why I never had any. That said, in my early 30s I did have one brief episode of dealing with children. I dated a Dominican woman who had an 11-year-old daughter. The absentee father was white. The kid was strikingly intelligent. It surprised me that I could carry ...