Beyond the idiocy of the risible media and Establishment spin that the big winner of Monday’s Iowa Caucuses was Marco Rubio with his predicted third place finish, what was lost on me and probably most people was that in actually coming in first, Ted Cruz made history by being the first American of Latino extraction to win a…
Author: J.J. Sefton
Hell Toupee
With the Iowa Caucuses now upon us, the phenomenon that has been the candidacy of Donald Trump is about to be put to its first real test. When he announced his intention to run for the GOP nomination last June, no one took him seriously, and rightly so. He’s made a career out of hyping…
Once In A Lifetime
…Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment of history and exactly the right place… This will change too, very quickly. Like a planet spinning off into the universe. A moment like this won’t come again for a thousand years… As I contemplate the dire state of our nation and the world, and the current presidential aspirations…
The Monster That Will Not Die
To promote a recent Royal Albert Hall concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D Major, the BBC commissioned a caricature of famed violinist Leopold Auer for the show playbill. Auer was such a master of the instrument in his day that composers, including Tchaikovsky himself, wrote music specifically to highlight his mastery of the instrument. So, of course,…
Wait, the Word “Muslim” Is An Insult?!
Yesterday, at a town hall in New Hampshire, someone (probably a Democrat or GOP-establishment plant) asked Donald Trump this question: “We have a problem in this country — it’s called Muslims,” the man said. “We know our current president is one.” To this, Trump responded, “right.” The man continued: “You know he’s not even an…
Party Unity My Ass!
I cut the cable about three years ago, so I have no idea how the expected public execution of Donald Trump is going – or if Mr. Trump, true to form, is ripping the arms off of Ben Carson and beating Carly Fiorina and Hugh Hewitt to death with them, rhetorically speaking of course. What is amazing…
Why I Don’t Care That Europe Dies (and Why I Hate That That’s Wrong)
About 30 years ago, my mother made a pilgrimage to central Europe to take my dad to Vienna, to see where she worked in the labor brigades clearing bomb damage and then on to Auschwitz. Oddly, my mother was interned at the infamous Mauthausen concentration camp but couldn’t bear the thought of returning to the…
Thoreauly Disgusted
Since Ed Koch introduced the “pooper-scooper” law back in 1977 and then into the Dinkins (I give credit where it’s due in this instance) and Giuliani years with quality-of-life laws, the crackdown on windshield washermen, hookers, turnstile jumpers and the revitalization of the subway, Jackie O’s rescue of Grand Central Station and the transformation of Times Square-42nd…
14 Years Later…
Rest in Peace.
Lighten up, Francis.
As the official hippie era was fading into the polyester, puka shells and post-Vietnam America of the 70’s, one bedraggled beatnik bitter-clinger by the name of David Peel was discovered by John and Yoko whilst playing (where else?) in Washington Square Park, and they in turn inflicted him upon the rest of us. I’d like to think that…