UberThoughts USA

Granted, I don't see a lot of commercials on TV, since almost everything I watch is DVRed and then replayed, with the commercials fast-f...

I don't know how many times I've written -- three at least -- about the propensity of people reading me from Russian IP addresses.  ...

It was probably too obscure a take to have it be likely that you read it, but some media entity called "Vulture" -- and I have no ...

I already told my classmate Ed, who writes here occasionally, that he was not going to like this particular column.  That's fair; I shou...

Yesterday I mentioned Dobie Gillis.  And I got lots of "Who?" messages. If you are not of an age to recall who or what that is, ...

I've mentioned a few times that our cable service is provided by a small local cable company that does only advanced fiber-optic transmi...

So now, Steve Bannon is no longer in the White House as a chief strategist to President Trump.  That was coming, no doubt, and the removal a...

So the fat panda, in charge of North Korea under penalty of having done to you what dictators do, well, he has been threatening to send miss...

On Saturday, the football team of the University of Virginia, the Charlottesville landmark founded by the third President of the United Stat...

This past Monday, people all across the USA were absolutely nutso over the solar eclipse.  Folks were driving or even flying hours to be whe...

For a week or so we have been hearing all manner of discussion about the tearing down of statues to Confederate generals across various stat...

Aaaaannnd I'm back.  Thanks for your patience. - - - - You would never believe this, but there are still World's Fairs.  Of cour...

I'm going to be taking a little time off the column; hiatuses ("hiati"?) are good for the health and probably give time to acc...

Yesterday there was a tweet from Ari Fleischer, a former Bush-era press secretary, calling for an end to the debt ceiling.  "It served ...

If you're a baseball fan, you know that July 31 of each year is a special day.  It is called, formally, the "non-waiver trade deadl...

Anthony Scaramucci is on his way back to the Export-Import Bank, having tendered his resignation as White House communications director, pre...

What a week it was, at least for the future of health insurance in the USA. I followed it all, from the courageous return of a very ill Jo...

In 1986, I was a young 35-year-old who had been singing barbershop music for a year and a half.  I was living in Marshall, Virginia, a littl...

It's been a couple years since Baltimore was a riot-fest, with the aftermath of the Freddie Gray incident turning, as most things with t...

A couple days back, a US plane -- a spy plane, I believe the news accounts said (if we can ever believe the media to get anything right at a...

I'm going to give, for once, a shred of credit to Chuck Schumer and the Democrats.  Don't get too excited; it isn't a lot and ba...

This week, we hear, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-KY) is supposed to be shepherding through the Senate yet another attempt at a c...