Category: Branding

• The GOP Has Become America’s Worst Case Scenario

  Sometimes, we have to assure ourselves we’re awake and not dreaming. Yes, the Republican Party really is doing what it’s doing. It’s natural for partisans to always see the worst case scenario sitting on their opposition’s shoulder. If the other guy wins? Welcome to the worst case scenario. To conservatives, that’s socialism. So, all Democrats…

  A L Katz

  August 15, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Rule of Law

  Fascists, Gerrymandering, GOP, Magna Carta, Progressives, Republican Party, Retail Politics, Socialism, Voter Suppression, Worst Case Scenario

• The Chicken Sushi Experience

  You haven’t lived until you’ve tried chicken sushi (chicken sashimi actually but “sushi’s” a much funnier word). Or lived the chicken sushi experience. The “chicken sushi experience” has become my go-to metaphor for life experiences where it’s the second time around that hurts far more than the first. There’s a dark twist to this –…

  A L Katz

  August 9, 2022

  Branding, Showbiz Stories, Suicide Prevention

  All Nippon Airways, Chicken Sushi, Electronic Arts, Flying Business Class, Japanese, Marzipan, Nilo Rodis, Plastic Food, Tokyo, Underground Tokyo, WWII

• Groucho Marx Inspires Me: An Ode To Groucho

  Apropos of nothing, as I sat down to work this morning, a song popped into my head: Groucho Marx singing “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It” in the movie “Horse Feathers“. That song inspires me especially in these here times. How can it not? In fact, Groucho Marx inspires me. He always has. I wonder…

  A L Katz

  August 1, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Culture, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories

  Baltimore, Chico Marx, Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Horse Feathers, Marx Brothers, Monkey Business, Muhammed Ali, Speakeasy, Swordfish, The Coconuts, Tsunami, WJZ TV

• Why Some Cannabis Strains “Work” & Why Some “Don’t”

  I’m a Californian who feels the same excitement when perusing a cannabis dispensary menu as he used to feel when reading a wine list. Back then, I always went to the reds while my wife was strictly a white wine drinker. To me, drinking white wine was like drinking water touched by fruit juice. Not…

  A L Katz

  July 24, 2022

  Branding, Cannabis, Culture, Freedom, Marijuana Legalization

  California Sober, Dispensary Menu, Durban Poison, Genius Pipe, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Marijuana Legalization, Massive Tannins, Mohave Weed Co, Smackdown, Super Boof, THC, Trainwreck

• Republicans Are Like Movie Monsters But Waaaaaay More Evil

  I’m no expert in movie monsters but I have put words into the mouths of a few. Over the course of my Hollywood writing-producing career, I’ve worked with a few name brand movie monsters: Freddy Krueger, He Who Walks Behind The Rows (The “Children Of The Corn” franchise) and especially the Crypt Keeper from HBO’s…

  A L Katz

  July 19, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Freedom, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Showbiz Stories, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Bond Villains, Children Of The Corn, David Koch, Freddy Krueger, Kevin McCarthy, Libertarians, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Nightmare On Elm Street, Syfy Channel, Tales From The Crypt, The Crypt Keeper, Wayne Lapierre

• America Is Drowning In Bullshit

  One of America’s two political parties has no problem hitching their wagon to a literal “Big Lie” (having already hitched their wagon to Trump despite KNOWING he was compromised by Vladimir Putin. Almost everything about Donald Trump is bullshit – starting with the idea that  he’s been successful at anything other than bullshitting people. Trump…

  A L Katz

  July 16, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, Election 2020, False Patriotism, Freedom, Live Bullshit Free, Racism, Rule of Law, Slavery, Trump

  Boss battle, Donald Trump, Facts v Feelings, Jewish Culture, Monotheism, Permanent Minority Rule, Pro Life, Racism, School bussiing, The Big Lie, Vladimir Putiin

• This Blog Finds It Gratifying That “Bullshit” Is Gaining Acceptance

  I think I’ve lost count how many times I’ve heard the word “bullshit” on MSNBC today. For the record, I have zero problem with hearing, seeing or writing that word. I’m watching Nicolle Wallace’s excellent “Deadline: White House” on MSNBC (an addiction of mine) and Nicolle herself just dropped the word, Clare McCaskill just dropped…

  A L Katz

  July 11, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Racism, Republicanism, Suicide Prevention, Trump

  Clare McCaskill, Confederacy, Deadline White House, Dixiecrats, Donnie Deutsch, George Carlin, Google, How To Live Bullshit Free, MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace, Old Kentucky Home, Originalism, Party of Lincoln

• Dear Democracy: The GOP Just Ain’t That “In To” You

  It sucks having to be the one to break the bad news. Democracy is so good-hearted. It wants the best for the most people. To make that happen, democracy wants everyone to have a voice (one person, one vote!) and if the majority of us want to be governed a certain way, then by voting…

  A L Katz

  July 11, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Election 2016, Freedom, Republicanism, Slavery, Trump

  American Civil War, Cato Institute, Confederacy, Democracy, Gerrymandering, Heather Cox Richardson, Koch Industries, Putin pays Rohrbacher and Trump, Republican Party, To Make Men Free, Voter Suppression

• Every Christian I Know Is Paul On The Road To Damascus

  Yesterday, as the Supreme Court closed out a session historical for its radical Christian lurch backwards toward an America that was, We The People got reminded (harshly) that extreme religiosity and democracy are mutually exclusive propositions. From abortion to guns to clean air, the religious extremists on the court (and how the bloody hell did…

  A L Katz

  July 1, 2022

  Atheism, Branding, Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, Freedom, Mitch McConnell, Religion, SCOTUS, Trump

  Apostle Paul, Chasids, Christian culture, Circumcision, Fall of Second Temple, Gentiles, Heritage Foundation, Jerusalem, Monotheism, Polythsism, Road to Damascus, We The People, Yahweh

• America’s Founders Would Find Contemporary American Christianity Shocking

  While the majority of America’s founders were Christians, they weren’t Christian the way most Americans – and especially most American Christians – understand Christianity today. “The majority of the Founders were religious rationalists or Unitarians.” Unitarianism is “a liberal Christian theological movement known for its belief in the unitary nature of God, and for its…

  A L Katz

  June 23, 2022

  Atheism, Branding, Culture, Freedom, Magical Thinking, Religion, Republicanism

  Catholicism, Declaration Of Independence, Deism, Evangelicals, George Washington, John Adams, Nature's God, Patrick Henrry, Presbyterianism, The Age Of Reason, Thomas Payne, Unitarianism