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OLVER ENDORSEMENT OFF THE MARK, AND OTHER NONSEQUITURS

Rigged politics being what they are (What, you think the one-party totalitarian system we have in The Great Commonwealth isn’t rigged?), The office of The Ancient Congressman, John Olver, delivered its perfunctory “endorsement” of another Democratic state rep candidate. The latest irrelevancy comes with Rep. Older’s (my new spelling) nod to 2nd Berkshire District candidate […]

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WHATTA BUNCHA BOOBS

Say this for the appropriately named Katherine Gundelfinger: She’s determined. Gundelfinger has been trying since the C-cup was invented to bring topless sunbathing to Pittsfield. The boobs on the Parks Commission turned down an earlier request, and my right honorable good friends on the Pittsfield city council never got the chance to weigh in on […]

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WHO YOU CALLING A CYNIC?

Often, someone thinking to issue an insult will label me a “cynic.” I accept the designation but not the definition. The word is like “God,” one become so imprecise in meaning as to be meaningless and so overapplied in use as to be useless. By default, every thinking, self-aware person wishes to use his or […]

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!! LOOKING FOR DAN’S ONLINE COLUMN? THEN CLICK “BLOG” (above) FOR NEW DAILY CONTENT!! FASTEN YOUR SAFETY HARNESS> YOU MUST BE “THIS HIGH” TO GO ON THIS RIDE !!

Kindly caustic, a friend to the afflicted, a foe to those that afflict PLANET VALENTI is the umbrella home of writer, broadcaster, professor, provocateur, cynic, optimist, and pedestrian Dan Valenti. Valenti has built a brand name out of himself for his achievements in a number of creative areas. To read the new online PLANET VALENTI, […]

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