The Continued Slobification of American Culture

I would like to give a shoutout to Tim Gunn of Project Runway for that apt term “slobification”. I remember a few years ago Gunn discussing how poorly Americans dress. The situation has gotten progressively worse. Whether it is black women wearing bonnets in public, or everyone else leaving the house in pajamas. Or wearing […]

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Let’s face it, we have a culture that denigrates the elderly woman. The perfect example of this is Pamela Anderson. For those who don’t know her, Anderson was the sex kitten of the 1990s. After the death of her long time makeup artist, Anderson has chosen to go makeup free. You would have thought this […]

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It will be 3 months since the California wildfires. After looking at the chaos, and this recent news report, I couldn’t help but think about Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s seminal novel. I reviewed the book here. Looking at the wholesale destruction of people’s homes, livelihoods, and lives, one can’t help but think that California lives […]

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I was in the process of reading Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann when The Wall Street Journal reported that General Electric(GE) was separating into three businesses: Aviation, Healthcare, and Power. Thus ending the conglomerate status of GE. Full disclosure, I worked as a contractor […]

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I know I am late on posting this but in November was 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A month later on Christmas Day the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown and he and lowlife wife were finally executed. About 10 years ago I came across an autobiography from Nadia Comaneci, […]

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Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Margery Hannah, and Virginia Tucker the NASA Americans have never heard of until movie came out over two years ago. I first heard about Hidden Figures from reading an article in the New York Magazine. The author Margot Lee Shetterly was interviewed about her research on these incredible women […]

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I know it has been a long time since I have written a blog post. My father’s health took a turn for the worse in January. Sadly, he died in May. I just have not been in the mood to blog. I’ve been dealing with grief, my father’s estate, and my own life. I am […]

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I just finished reading an intriguing memoir about a segment of American society that is virtually ignored.  Writer J.D. Vance chronicles his life story in Hillbilly Elegy.  Vance highlights the terrible consequences of bad ideas passed from generation to generation.  These bad ideas include eschewing education, using violence as a means to settle disagreements, drug […]

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I just finished reading a disturbing look into the lives of fashion designers John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Dana Thomas, a fashion correspondent delves into the lives of these incredibly talented designers in her book Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano From my reading, Thomas showed the parallel lives […]

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I can’t believe it has been 25 years today since that wall of oppression was brought down; and only due to a Poliburo’s member’s rambling statement.  I believe that wall symbolized the end result of a morally bankrupt ideology.  It laid bare in concrete that people of East Germany, and in Eastern Europe in particular, […]

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