Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt: The topic of the day is Faux Pas, or as I used to pronounce it before I had heard someone say it aloud that actually speaks “surrender monkey” Fox paws. I’m going to start out with the absolute disaster that is the SCOTUS leak because it’s the…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt: We have something different this week, a guest post. I was going to run something on the recent purchase of Twitter, the advance of free speech that it promises, and all of the rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth by anyone to even marginal left of center,…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, pull up a bucket. Mark Twain has been quoted as saying “there are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.” Mr. Clemens, in turn, attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli. (If you don’t know who that is, go look it up, it will do you a world…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, pull up a chair, and have a drink, while I can still afford it. When the idiots that run my state and the rest of the nation wanted to raise the minimum wage the folks on the right said, “if you do this, prices will go up, you’ll…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, pull up a chair and let’s talk. I have to start this week with a very small retraction on last week’s column. After talking very briefly on Saturday last with one of our team that had been doing the phone calls (they got caught up in all of…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, pull up a chair, and let’s talk. I mentioned last week that I would be in Washington D.C. this week. The picture above was taken yesterday around noon. I’m here for the annual National Convention and meetings for an organization that I am a VP for the largest…
Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt, get something to drink, and have a seat. I’ll be covering a lot of ground today, and I am going to look at most of it through the lens of a song that I absolutely despise. Imagine, by John Lennon. John was no relation to Vladimir Lenin,…