Bad Advice Friday +1, 5-27-17
Oh my gosh. It’s Saturday already. I missed getting the advice on Friday. My excuses are: 1) Work took longer than expected. 2) I was helping a friend. 3) I dislocated my shoulder. (It popped […]
Tag: media
Get to Know Writer, Podcaster, Voiceover Artist and Narrator Billy Dees
Billy Dees has been such an important part of HumorOutcasts from the start. I first met Billy on Twitter, and I have watched his blog and his podcasts blossom. A multi-talented individual who produced a […]
Two Little Words
You can spend a lifetime figuring out who you really are. At 60, I’m finally closing in on the truth. At the very least, I know who I’m not. I’ve noticed that the media loves […]
Excerpt from “Welcome To Heidi” – I’M STARVING
Two weeks ago, Welcome to Heidi burst onto the scene and proceeded to shake things up in Hollywood and beyond. While the press attention has been unbelievable, the reason so many people “took” to this […]
Don’t Text And Read This
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK At work the other day, while taking a 911 call, calling a police unit on the radio, checking an address on a map, and following an approaching storm system on […]
Limbaugh: Offensive Comment Unfairly Taken Out of Context From Much Longer Offensive Commentary
Rush Limbaugh is blasting critics in the liberal media today, after several news outlets reported on a comment he made during yesterday’s show that they deemed horribly offensive. Limbaugh spent nearly 15 minutes this afternoon […]
Game Changer
When people want to insinuate that a politician is heinous and bordering on evil, they sometimes play the Nazi card. You’ve seen those Obama-with-little-mustache photos from followers of that one guy (I think his name […]
Why it’s Nancy Grace’s Fault
The regrettably late Court TV was a TV experiment way ahead of its time. What seemed a grotesque spectacle in 1994 with the thoroughly televised trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, has become a permanent state of […]
The All-Important American Identity Kit
It was a rough week for people who remotely resembled the Boston bombers. Amateur sleuths on the social media site Reddit wrongly identified a Brown University student who was an American citizen from Pennsylvania. A […]
The New Era of Journalism
Yesterday, The Associated Press’ twitter account was hijacked and a false message that there was an explosion at the White House that left the President injured went out into Twitter World. The stock market began […]