The stereotype of the “absent-minded professor” was created because the average mind doesn’t understand how the elite mind works, or it sort of does and it feels jealous or inferior, so it puts it down. To this we add one of the worst trends on the planet today: an appalling thrust toward uniformity, a [...]

          In my posting of November 4, 2009 I blasted how society is now demonizing some of its most brilliant people, especially some of its most brilliant young people, as suffering from some stupid pseudo-scientific concoction called “Asperger’s Syndrome”, and the potential here for denying genius any role to play in our society, even though [...]

          You may have noticed something: As of today a lot of the subway and bus service in New York City has been destroyed or radically cut back. If you haven’t noticed it today, then tomorrow in your Monday commute. Further cuts seem assured in the future, combined with ever-increasing fares that will eventually put [...]

          It’s always struck me that the The New York Times’ ThursdayStyles section represented the bottom of the barrel of that mixed-bag/sometimes still great/sometimes gross and appalling and sometimes inbetween American institution called The New York Times. And without ever actually counting the faces it also struck me that the section was weirdly, overwhelmingly White [...]

          I may need a car service to go from one point in Queens to another later this week. So I picked names from the Verizon Yellow Pages under “Car Svce.”– actually it’s now called the Superyellowpages– that title’s so typical of today’s hyped-up failing America– it reminds me of the hysterical celebrations you now [...]

          Gurgle-gurgle!
          Hold on!
          “Excuse me, do you have water running near you?”
          “Oh, I was just doing the dishes while waiting for ___ to get to me.”
          I wouldn’t use this as an example if it had happened only once.
          Here’s the thing.
          And I’ll say this as politely as I can.
          It’s at [...]

          Having taken on such big subjects in my blog as President Obama and Tiger Woods,  it’s now time to end my brief blog hiatus and talk about a re-a-a-lly big subject: Phone etiquette when calling a radio talk show.
          We have no pictures in radio, so you want the sound to be good. It [...]

          My intellect has been begging me to also have its say about Avatar for weeks, so I’m finally, grudgingly, going to give it a little space. After all, it’s hung out with me all these years, and I’m sick of its whining:
          “First off the film is manipulative and you fell for it!”
          Hold [...]

                                        (WARNING: Ending Given Away)
          Living up to what I wrote in my first review, I don’t intend to fill up space just because it’s available, nor try to be bigger than this enormous work. My first viewing was in 2-D, so I could judge the picture’s merits without extra wow’s getting in the way. [...]

            This week’s insipid media hoo-ha is over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s words about Barack Obama in 2008. Let’s see. Reid called Obama “light-skinned”. Since Obama is light-skinned, calling him light-skinned is an observation, like calling an apple red. The deeper subtext here? Not very deep, and recognized by everyone: Obama’s being half-White racially, [...]