Question For My UK Readers

Yesterday, I mentioned in passing that the Television License Fee that has been used to fund the BBC for it’s entire existence has been threatened by Boris Johnson. I am curious about a couple of things I couldn’t find a straight answer to them. Is it correct that the Fee applies to watching shows on […]

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The Absolute Death of Doctor Who

It’s been a very long road for Doctor Who, the first episode was broadcast the day John Kennedy was assassinated. It ran from that day until 1987 when it was put on, “temporary hiatus.” That was technically accurate although a program hiatus doesn’t usually last twenty years. But if you take the show at its […]

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Blogs and Ends: Monday Link Dump

FIRST Well the title says it all. A trip through New York City in 1911. I do find these little time capsule videos intriguing This is a world that is much more self-confident and morally healthy than ours. You might see one member of the Greatest Generation being pushed in pram. And they have no […]

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Mayor Pete Is Out

Pete Buttigieg has decided he wants to spend more time with his….family. Consequently he will not be continuing his run for the presidency of the United States. Nobody, I mean no-body drops out two days before Super Tuesday. It doesn’t matter how little money you have left. There is always a chance the election day […]

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What Happened to the Critic?

I found this is in my draft folder. It was going to be a Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck about Birds of Prey. Apparently, I had forgotten to publish it. I was about to delete but then I looked it over and decided it actually had a few useful observations about the roll of the Critic […]

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