Any candidate who starts attacking gets their mic turned off by the moderator. There will be a big red button on the table next to the moderator – maybe Staples will sponsor? – and when that button is pushed, the sound feed is killed to the house and the TV truck. All the attendees and viewers will see is a politician moving their lips with no intelligible sound coming out. The cynic in me wonders if anyone will notice the difference.
That was the first time our son had ever rearranged his schedule for network TV, so that was a bit odd for him. He does not understand how spoiled he is by video on demand.
No, not the Super Bowl. Although, it is big, and a game. I am referring to the 2016 Presidential contest in general, and the last Republican debate on Fox News […]
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I saw a couple of things this past weekend that gave me cause for pause. The first was the comments section attached to a New York Times story about a […]
My father always called New Year’s Eve “amateur night” because of all the the drunk driving incidents that would appear in the newspaper the next day. (This was back in […]
I was pleasantly surprised to receive a “congratulations” email from Writer’s Digest last month. My short film screenplay, The Bottle, won an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 2015 Writing Competition. […]
I watched 20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four over the weekend. My wife and I had some pre-ticket trepidation, and went to a matinee instead of an evening show. We […]
It seems to me that there is a significant quantity of swearing in our culture these days. Listening to casual snatches of conversations in public places, all I hear are […]
When taking in a story of any sort – novel, movie, comic book – one of the questions I ask myself is “Why is (the main character) doing what they […]
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