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Obama’s had a great couple of weeks politically, but he’s still gone as of January 20, 2017. That leaves a vacuum that the political

Sometimes, someone posts something on Facebook that is of intrinsic value. The following thought-piece—published here with the author’s permission—is such a post. I was

"Monsters, John! Monsters from the Id!" That's the warning delivered by a dying Warren Stevens to Captain Leslie Nielson just before the climax of Forbidden Planet.

No, not that race card. But some candidate will play it before the election. Promise. I mean the horse race card. I’m abandoning the Survivor

If you follow economic or political news at all, you know there has been a lot of discussion about our national infrastructure and the

Every campaign has at least one noir moment, when (as in film noir) the protagonist tries to do The Right Thing but winds up

When Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, he meant "

For the first decade of this century I didn't pay much attention to the music business. After close to 30 years in the business

We're back on the boat deck filled with potential Survivor contestants, waiting to see who will commit by jumping into the water and swimming

WHEN TO WATCH: Pick a broadcast network and watch the nightly news. Any day. Or pick a cable network opinion-veiled-as-news show. Watch any minute.

On second thought, don't flash that cash—I'll get ill. The Koch brothers have reportedly committed $900 million, give-or-take, to Republican 2016 campaigns—and are currently

Political Survivor: USA. This show plays almost continuously, with an ever-changing cast, on many shows and many networks. I discovered the first season of Survivor

Talk about being overly optimistic. My previous TheTVolution post seems positively Pollyanna-ish. The headline read: "The Voice Finally Acknowledges Songwriters." Actually, what the December