Last Sunday brought the Grammy Awards or as they might be known from now on: The Adele Show. Coincidentally, never has someone been such a beautiful singer and such an ugly talker. Her singing voice could break hearts but it’s her speaking voice that makes English teachers cry. Moving on to other music news, Rick…
Category: Thursday
My Ten Favorite Items That Ran In the Last Year
Rolling on with our one year anniversary week, here I count down my personal favorite ten items that ran in the last year. I’m not saying they’re the BEST ones necessarily and there are dozens of runner-ups I couldn’t list, but I think this gives a pretty good summation of what the site’s all about….
Everything Petty Issues Has Taught Me In the Last Year
Lessons 1 through 5: Not a damn thing. Oh well, might as well make a list anyway. Lesson 5: That People Really Love “Asshole of the Week.” Although I think 14 individual segments a week is plenty, if I were to add one, it would probably an entirely separate segment for Asshole of the Week….
Larger Editorial: Romney vs. Gingrich, Two Candidates that REPUBLICANS Hate
I know this race is already about played out and most of you are probably ready to hear about something but…too bad, for now at least because an observation really struck me this week that this race is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. Now most of you might say “Well no shit,” but what…
Meeting the Legendary Author Elmore Leonard
Evvvvvvery once and a while I get to “meet” a celebrity (usually meaning I deliberately bump into them so they’ll say “Watch it” and I can count it as “A conversation with Robin Williams”) but even more rare is when I meet one that I genuinely love their work and career. That happened last night…
An Open Marriage for Newt but He Says No Marriage for Gay People?
By now even people on Mars heard last week’s news that current presidential candidate, former speaker of the house, and forever shitty human being Newt Gingrich’s SECOND ex-wife came forward to say that towards the end of their marriage, Newt wanted an open marriage. Now of course it may not completely surprise people that a…
Petty Issues: Top 5 “Everyday Assholes”
Usually, I like to pick out obnoxious celebrities or politicians of the week and talk about them. But this week it struck me how little I’ve picked on someone I like to call “The Everyday Asshole.” So today I present the Top 5 Biggest Assholes that most of us run into in real life. 5….
Larger Editorial: Inside the Internet Blackout…A Little More Gray Than You Might Think
For those that might not be aware, several large websites (like Wikipedia) participated in an “Internet Black Out” yesterday as part of a protest against two bills circulating through congress that they think could hurt internet freedom and encourage censorship. The two bills are known by their catchy acronyms “SOPA” and “PIPA.” But don’t let…
Petty Issues: Updated For Rick Perry’s Withdrawal
With this week’s cruise “disaster” in Italy, I’m thinking cruise lines will have to discount their prices for this upcoming year as some consumers will have a knee-jerk reaction of fear. But lightening rarely strikes twice folks and savvier customers will take advantage of the slashed prices, so keep checking prices over the next few…
A Special, Unflattering Q and A With “The Obamas” Controversial Writer Jodi Kantor
Immediate Disclaimer: I didn’t get to exclusively interview her (and probably wouldn’t break my back trying to as everything she could tell you is in her book…which in effect is available for free on Google) but I did attend a special Barnes and Noble Q&A/book signing that she did last night in Manhattan. I thought…
Petty Issues: Congratulations Edition
Congratulations to Mitt Romney on his totally expected and predictable victory in New Hampshire as he soars to his totally expected and predictable winning of the nomination…by process of elimination as all other major candidates have either failed to enter the race (Trump, Christie, Huckabee, Daniels) or been found to be serial perverts (Cain) or…
2011 Was a Great Year For the World (Whether The World Realizes It or Not)
I can’t think of a year in recent memory that offered so much and got recognized for so little. This year, people’s moods were generally pretty down thanks to a sluggish worldwide economy and dismal U.S. jobs numbers. [Of course, it doesn’t help that one of the two U.S. political parties tried to milk every…
Petty Issues: End of the Year Edition
As we close out the year, let’s take a look at everything our wonderful Republicans did for us in 2011: First the new Tea Party-led House of Representatives kick started the year by holding the economy hostage over renewing the Bush tax cuts, then they held it hostage over passing a yearly budget, then they…