Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Yep. Hillary Clinton has just made a deplorable mistake — one that may prove fatal to her run for the White House. By saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton has violated virtually every rule of campaigning. For one thing, she has denigrated not her…
Read More about Hillary’s “Deplorables”There is a wonderfully creative television ad that’s running these days for Chase Bank. It’s that miniature pet pig prancing along the sidewalk to the music track of DiRealShaggy’s 1995 tune, “Boombastic.” The spot works on several levels. If you’ve seen it even once, you can immediately conjure in your head the heavily syncopated music,…
Read More about Mr. BoombasticI’m worried about my vote. And your vote. I’m worried that this mad rush to a universal electronic voting system will mean that someone other than “us” will decide who gets how many votes, and who wins the contest. Already, Georgia relies solely upon electronic voting using a software program that is more than ten…
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So here we are, on Labor Day weekend, and the final push is about to begin in this miserable, horrible race for the White House. No one can be sure how this is all going to play out, but there are a few things we know. First, this race is Hillary Clinton’s to lose —…
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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” PlanWhat 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…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 SeatMuch 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 Epi
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…
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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…
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