Gordon Lightfoot, Harry Bellefonte, Jim Brown, Tina Turner. All legends and icons. Music, Entertainment and Sports. All died recently. Left legacies and unforgettable moments that will outlive their time on earth. Lightfoot passed on May 1 in Toronto. He was 84. He was the quintessential Canadian troubadour. For about a…

The documentary on MSNBC was too bizarre and hilarious to be real. Yet, it was. I loved the reporters who thought the presser was going to be at thee Four Seasons and then had to scramble to find this place on the west side of the city. William Goldman couldn't have written a script like that.

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” — Section IV, 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. This time, they really mean it. The Über-rich…

10) I support the Writers Guild strike. I wrote three scripts for a local producer 25–30 years ago and was promised the Moon, stars and Mars and got zilch. Writers are undervalued and never paid their worth (unless you get very, very fortunate). 9) RIP, Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Belafonte…

You'll never convert a believer and you'll never convince a skeptic.

As Charles Pierce likes to say at Esquire Politics..."And I am the Czar of all the Russia's."

An observant old guy said, just before he died (on HBO to boot) "'Rights,' 'rights,' everyone talks about 'rights.' Well, guess what? You don't have 'rights,' you have 'privilege's' and they can be taken away." I believe his name was George...What's his last name??? It's coming...Car...something. Oh, now, I remember!!! Carlin. George Carlin. Funny guy with some serious observations, which still apply 16 years after he died.

From Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press: "It seems the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide the fate of mifepristone, a prospect that should fill no one with confidence. It's the same court that threw out 49 years of precedent last year by overturning Roe. …

We got played. Badly. From The New York Times: It was a last-minute end to a case that began two years ago and after the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that peeled back the curtain on a media company that has long resisted outside scrutiny. The…