The Daily Gouge

It’s Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019…but before we begin, here’s a must-see video we received from our middle son Mike which hits on the theme of the Monday edition:  As the video suggests, especially in this time of Fake News and computer-generated imagery, take everything you hear or view with a grain of salt… particularly if […]

It’s Monday, January 21st, 2019…and owing to a last-minute dinner engagement, here’s a somewhat abbreviated edition of The Gouge! At the top of today’s installment…  See how quickly you can identify the theme of today’s offering. First up, consider this quote from an Atlantic article on the idled non-essential: “…Of course, for many of the […]

It’s Friday, January 18th, 2019…but before we begin, George Lawlor forwarded an item which bespeaks the ignorance and Veruca Salt mentality…  …of most Millennials: Broke teen who sold kidney for an iPhone now bedridden for life   We can only assume since he still has two eyeballs and lungs…and obviously doesn’t need perfect vision […]

It’s Wednesday, January 16th, 2019…but before we begin, can anyone explain why and when corporate America came to believe we wanted their moral guidance any more than a festering hemorrhoid, let alone required their assistance in understanding proper masculine conduct?!? P&G Challenges Men to Shave Their ‘Toxic Masculinity’ in Gillette Ad Spot pegged to #MeToo […]

It’s Monday, January 14th, 2019…but before we begin, after viewing this meme forwarded by Wink Martindale… …we got to thinking: there are undoubtedly a number of Dimocratic Socialists who would actually advocate such a position… …though perhaps not in public…at least not yet!  (Hat tip to Speed Mach for the AOC meme!) After all, once healthcare, […]

It’s Friday, January 11th, 2019…but before we begin, a few brief comments on the recent shooting in Houston of a 7-year-old Black child.  We’d like to just mention her as a “7-year-old child”, but the Black racial animus sown and cultivated by the half-White Barack Hussein Obama has grown to proportions so endemic they don’t […]

It’s Wednesday, January 9th, 2019…and here’s The Gouge! First up, while the MSM wails and gnashes their collective teeth over a partial government shutdown about which most of the country couldn’t care less, writing at Best of the Web, Jim Freeman’s asking what inquiring minds want to know: The 380,000 Just how many unnecessary employees does […]

It’s Monday, January 7th, 2019…now, here’s The Gouge…and in the interest of time, absent our usual colorful emphases! First up, writing at NRO, Andy McCarthy details how… Trump Keeps Giving Mueller Reasons to Pursue the ‘Collusion’ Probe The special counsel is going to keep digging until Trump stops this.   “It’s a new year with […]

It’s Friday, January 4th, 2019…and one day into the 2nd Reign of the Red Queen… …the King… …still has his head! Now, primarily because we’re having a hard time getting back into the swing of things, here’s a somewhat abbreviated edition of The Gouge! First up, courtesy of Speed Mach and American Greatness, in response to […]

It’s Monday, December 31st, 2018…but before we begin, here’s a rather intriguing if less-than-theologically-sound article from George Weigel writing at the WSJ: Stephen Hawking’s Surprise A Christmas meditation   For those curious about our “less-than-theologically-sound” comment, we refer you to this condensed version of Matthew 25:31-46: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and […]