Founded 1983: Liberal Mindset; Conservative Morality

November 7, 2013November 7, 2013

Keep a Song in Your Heart: Remembering Lawrence Welk

Every time I visited my grandfather in North Loup, Nebraska — there was one unspoken, but wholly enforced rule — on Sunday nights at 7:00pm, you sat down with him and watched the Lawrence Welk Show on ABC television.

It was an hour of a painful persuasion for a young lad to bear — second only to the never-ending reruns of Hee Haw that aired every single weeknight that I was also forced to watch during each visit.

I never learned to like, or even tolerate, the Welk show. The show was a matter of saccharine moments topped with thick frosting of faux frivolity and façade. All show and no substance. Complete spectacle and no plot.

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June 18, 2010

Perez Hilton and ABC: Morality of the Moment and the Convenient Outrage

Perez Hilton is one of the most despicable people of the earth. Obviously bullied and put-upon as a child, he seeks his revenge as an adult against those who are prettier, richer and more powerful than he could ever dream to be — and he courts that cruelty by flaying the filthy from a virtual throne. Whether he did or didn’t — concerning Miley Cyrus and an upskirt view — is a conundrum for another day, but the loathsome fact that ABC pulled its advertising from Perez Hilton’s website because of the Cyrus non-event is astounding.