• The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 13

    Dealing with the government shutdown: Is it safe to fly and what’s happening at national parks? Kentucky Democrats on the campaign trail. Reflections on the art fair (show) and a slowdown at the Speed. Links to our discussion: Why the U.S. government has shut down and what happens now (BBC) A couple of quick notes…


  • Billionaire Bezos wants you to blame Democrats for shutdown

    Jeff Bezos (net worth $233.7 billion) and his cronies on the editorial board of the Washington Post have decided to conjure up a trap for Democrats who are trying to save lives threatened by the Orange TACOs budget slashers. [T]he Democratic Party shut off any potential escape valve to avoid a shutdown, which began at…


  • What the hell is the CJ doing? (Part 2)

    Another “opinion piece” in the CJ manages to offer a premise, then completely debunk it in a link that’s supposed to support that argument. The headline on this winner is: Polls show Americans don’t trust Democrats on crime, economy. And for good reason.  The story contains this justification for the headline: Harry Enten, CNN’s chief…


  • Michael Moore: What went down won’t go up!

    The director of the documentaries “Roger and Me” and “Bowling for Columbine” has a few things to say about the symbolism of escalators: When the escalator at the United Nations came to a wrenching and sudden stop this past Tuesday as soon as Trump stepped on it, I would like to believe that future historians…


  • What the hell is the CJ doing?

    This is a headline appearing on the home page of the Courier Journal today: Biden openly tried to silence speech. Trump shouldn’t do the same. So, you click on the link and see a story consisting of 25 paragraphs talking about censorship by the Trump administration. The very last paragraph of the story says this:…


  • The most annoying headline of the week

    An Al Cross column in the Kentucky Lantern has this headline: We Need Calm Compelling Voices from the Middle. And it contained this pablum: I got a surprise phone call last week from the other side of the world, where an American expatriate was worried about the future of his country in the wake of…


  • The image speaks for itself

    Colbert and Kimmel are cancelled because con men, liars and criminals now run the country. And the blame originates with Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, who have done more damage to this country than anyone else.


  • Can our media please deal with reality instead of hype?

    This from the CJ: Members of the College Republicans at University of Louisville invited students, alumni and members of the Louisville community to participate in a candlelight vigil Sept. 15 honoring Charlie Kirk. A large crowd responded, gathering in the grass in front of Grawemeyer Hall by the university’s statue of “The Thinker,” with many…


  • The CJ is moving out of its building

    When I worked at the Courier Journal in the 1980s, it had hundreds of reporters, a large advertising and circulation staff and printers who would run off thousands of newspapers every day for both the CJ and the Louisville Times, all from the corner of Sixth and Broadway. That’s all over now. From Louisville Business…


  • The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 11

    The impact of Sept. 11, 2001; political violence; the Epstein files; political loyalty; a day in the country and four days of music. Some of the things we discuss in this episode: A very Massie Christmas: Click here for some things Charlie Kirk said during his lifetime. From the Guardian. Click here for a brief…