Never gets old. The joy of New Year’s fireworks in Central Park.
At midnight. Sharp.
Andy Cohen with Anderson Cooper on their 4+ hour show in Times Square, “It’s like doing a telethon without the disease.”
NYTimes Picks 2019
This year the NYT editors picked my comments about a long ago trip to Alcatraz, two of the Democrat debates, whether Biden is the most electable, and my never-ending lament on America’s gun-lust.
NY Times Retrospective, Native American Resistance Alcatraz 1969
NY Times Op-Ed Columnists, 10/19 Democrat Debate Winners & Losers
NY Times Front Page, El Paso and Dayton Mass Shootings
NY Times Op-Ed Columnists,7/19 Democrat Debate Winners & Losers
Jamelle Bouie, Is Biden Most Electable Democrat
2020 Predictions & Predilections
Predictions
China-Russia-Iran Alliance strengthens
Europe’s divisions deepen
Global communications system attack
New Pope
Dem nom won’t be Biden
Whoever it is will lose to Trump
Financial markets will be volatile
Chiefs will win the Superbowl
Tiger will win another Major
Predilections
Global Stability
Bloomberg buys Dem nom
Beats Trump
Markets remain strong
Pets-Free airline and hotel chain
Building owners fix façades fast
Niners win Superbowl
Tiger wins another Major
2019 Good/Bad List
GOOD
BEST
Watching Tiger win The Masters with Gary & Ben
mAdBen’s crazy cool career & interview
TV
Succession
Killing Eve & Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The Affair, Series Finale – The Whole of the Moon
THEATER
Moulin Rouge
Peter Dinklage as Cyrano
Brothers Wright by Colby Herchel
JOURNALISM
Miranda Devine, Steve Cuozzo NYPost & West Side Rag
Shining the bright if futile light on the scaffolding cabal
POLITICS
Mayor Mike joins the Dem race
BAD
WORST
Hotels have become kennels
Sheds shroud the entire City
Man-hating woke-tards
JOURNALISM
If everything is a bombshell breaking news story,
nothing is a bombshell breaking news story
SPORTS
NFL IR List
Bryson de Chambeau’s robot golf
POLITICS
Mueller Report fizz
Schiff Show bore
Dem Scrum – too many meh candidates
TV
Mrs. Maisel Season 3
Catherine the Great
Divine Night 2019
Susana Phillips. Met Opera soprano. O Nuit Divine. Indeed it was. Paul Winter’s sax. Hark the Herald Angels Sing! Silent Night. Candles. Holy Night. Christmas Eve Midnight Mass. Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Mom & Ben tradition. Joyeux Noël. 
Tidings of the Season
Side Story – Dem Debate
Over on PBS. On the impeachment margin. Did you know? There was a Democrat debate tonight. Boring as hell.
Mayor Pete did spar with Lizzie & Amy. They tore him up. Not pretty. Klobuchar strong. Her best night. Warren a bit off her game. Biden still senile. Yang made some futuristic points which nobody on the stage understood. Steyer is creepy. Bernie. Always Bernie. Other than that. Boring as hell.
Advantage Trump. Mayor Mike!! Oprah! Where are you?
Impeach Cobbler
A cobbled together partisan impeachment. Russian collusion a joke. Ukrainian interference also laughable. Nothing about this process is dignified by statesmanship or comity. Rather. Pure political pulp.
Trumpistas condone bad behavior to get good judges. Dems criticize everything he does. To what end? Instead of finding the best candidate, they have contrived a just desserts for no compelling crime.
In the meantime. Go Mayor Mike! That’d be truly sweet.
Rudy & His Friends
Das Vedanya Rooody & Friends. Boris Badenov & Natasha Fatale. You all gambled the Trump Presidency for dirt on the Bidens and a few rubles in Pottsylvania. Relegated the American government to cartoon characters from the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.
See you at the Senate trial. Dudley Do-Right McConnell vs. Schiffty Schiff & Snidely Schumer. The reality television spectacle of the decade.
Bullwinkle dahling. We retire to Mar-a-Lago now? Dah. We go.
UnPrecedential
Opinion columns widely lament the dilution of impeachment. As with all things Trump. Bad behavior has become the norm. By him and as the IG Report showed many others in government. So if everything is bad. Nothing is bad.
Two old white guys steadily lead the Democrat pack. Biden and Bernie. Frank Bruni wonders if Mayor Pete is too young. Mike Bloomberg is too rich. Elizabeth & Amy too female. So. Then. Who?
On the fun side. The Presidents Cup. Golf in Australia on TV last night. U.S. vs. Non-European International players. Despite a certain son saying I’m the only person lame enough to have watched it, seeing Captain Tiger play well was great. So there.
Side Trek . NYC 