Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Donald Trump
Just hours after trying to make “nice-nice” with Mexico’s president, Donald Trump made it clear — again — on Wednesday night that he doesn’t like illegal immigrants. Trump told an adoring crowd in Phoenix that he’d remove millions of people living in the United States illegally if he becomes president. He said that failure to…
Read More about Trump’s “New” PlanWater
Dear Jerry, We’re sorry we ever doubted you. That Water Train idea of yours is fantastic. Who knew your bullet train, the Twin Tunnels, the manufactured drought, and all the silliness about that little fish were just part of a colossal scheme to get some dependable water to the most productive agricultural district in the…
Read More about The Water TrainHillary Clinton
What to make of that human mess that is Anthony Weiner, the former Congressman from New York who is apparently unable to stop sending “sexually suggestive” pictures of himself to other women? Well, for starters, his marriage to Huma Abedin — one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides — seems to be over, and justifiably so….
Read More about Anthony Weiner: Oh, Brother…Donald Trump
So Colin Kaepernick — the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who makes no one forget the likes of Joe Montana, Steve Young or John Brodie — has decided to throw even more fuel on the fire he ignited a few days ago when he remained seated during the playing of the national anthem before a football…
Read More about Colin Kaepernick Takes a SeatPolitics
Much of today’s news is about optics – what looks good and what looks bad, how it is spun and how the public sees it. The expanding revelations over the price run-up of EpiPens are candy land. Here is a mid-sized generic drug company, Mylan, suddenly finding itself in possession of a golden egg and…
Read More about The Preppie and the EpiDrought
By Bud Elliott [Editor’s Note: Since this article was published in April of 2015, Jose Ramirez has won five more bouts. His record is now 18-0-0 with 13 knockouts. His next fight will be in December at the Save Mart Center] Late one sweltering summer afternoon not that many years ago, some neighborhood kids walked home after…
Read More about Water Warrior
Fresno
Oh, my. Can anyone — ANYONE — tell me why the California State Senate has refused to let voters decide whether to keep going on, and off, Daylight Saving Time? The Senate’s vote this week nixed a bill that would have placed a measure on the ballot, asking us to decide whether to dump our…
Read More about It’s All About Time…Fresno
In the world of peeves there are major ones and minor ones. This is a minor one. How come we don’t say “you’re welcome” any more? For instance: You have just bought a $1,630.00 mattress. The salesman processes your credit card, hands you the thing to sign, then gives you a receipt for the purchase…
Read More about The Problem With “No Problem”
Fresno
By Bud Elliott On a white hot August afternoon, farm kids gather in the cool glare of an overhead lamp at King’s Boxing Club in Avenal. They come for the boxing lessons and a cold drink of water and to escape from the fields as did Jose Ramirez, their role model and mentor. Now considered…
Read More about Central California’s Water Woes
Pop Culture
Okay, this is the first, and I hope only, comment I’m going to make about that mess of an American athlete, Ryan Lochte. Thank goodness there was a video recording of what really happened at that little Brazilian gas station. Without it, Lochte and his fellow travelers might have gotten away with the lie about…
Read More about Go Away, Ryan Lochte