It hasn’t been a good month for the cult of Scientology. The “religion” created by hack 1950s science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, has millions of followers around the world, and one of the primary ways it finds to attract people are the rich movie celebrities are Scientologists. Two of the most open are John […]

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Since we last spoke, there were three deaths of people in the news that are worthy of mention. First, there was the great Cuban heavyweight boxer Teofilo Stevenson, who died last week at the age of 60. Stevenson looked like Ali, but the only time we Americans could see Stevenson was in the Olympics. He […]

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As a Father’s Day gift, the Indignant Wife got a babysitter for the Indignant Children yesterday afternoon, and we went to lunch and watched the film “Prometheus.” The wife thought that the movie was very slow; as a fan of “Alien” and “Aliens,” I LOVED it. But I’m confused. I saw a couple of articles […]

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Last night, your friend and humble narrator looked forward to two Game 7s in the NHL Playoffs and the first round of the NFL Draft. What could be better to sit on the couch in front of the HDTV and watch sports? But there was one thing that soured this scene a bit. The reaction […]

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Speaking of watching the NFL Draft last night, did anyone else think it was weird that every draftee came on the stage and then had a bear hug from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. I’m sure that Goodell has gotten to know many of these young men personally especially after the college season ended, and I’m […]

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I am not at all enamored of celebrities, but you can’t avoid the minutiae of their shallow lives, so I’m going to take a dip in the water (but not drink the Kool-Aid)… • It seems that the divorce of former NFL cornerback and current NFL Network analyst Deion “Prime Time” Sanders and his wife […]

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For the longest time, I’ve pictured the prudes who are the decision makers of the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board to be uptight, very old, very white, grandmothers who would make Carrie Nation look like Larry Flynt. The decisions are secret, arbitrary, and according to film makers, go second by second through films […]

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