BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 20, 2024) — THE PLANET‘s business of the day isn’t about pronouns, although it’s astounding that any of the eight parts of speech could ever become a hot political issue. Rather, it’s about prefixes, specifically, “trans.” It means “to move,” as in […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY NOV. 18, 2024) — You’ve heard the bromide “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Good advice, that. In Two-Pete Bitchfield, however, officials know better than that. In fact, they know better than you do. They believe that “if it ain’t broke, then […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1, 11/16 p.m. — During Thursday through Saturday 7:30 p.m., THE PLANET‘s IT people did some work backstage to upgrade certain platforms. If you experienced unusual delays in your posts making to publication (some did, some didn’t) it was due to this “homework.” We constantly invest […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, VETERAN’S DAY 2024) — We called it. Early. Donald Trump’s overwhelming win, taking both the electoral and popular votes, shows you have to listen to THE PLANET. Relying on any other local media, you would have believed that Kamalakazee was going to take down […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLAENT VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 8-10, 2024) — Today THE PLANET presents one of the most succinct columns ever in our 14-year history. TRUMP TR i UMP h Obamanation and insane woke politics were given a good ol’ fashioned wood shampoo. Voters repudiated the Loon […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 1-3, 2024) — On Tuesday, as if you didn’t know, THE PLANET joins with the rest of the world to see the outcome of the strangest, most vitriolic presidential election in America’s history. Former President Donald Trump v. Vice President […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 30, 2024) — On Friday in The Weekend Edition, THE PLANET shall post our final column prior to the Nov. 5 election. For today, we turn our whetted attentions to local government–the good, the bad, the ugly, and the meh of Bitchfield. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 28, 2024) — Today, THE PLANET presents an insightful guest column by John Brenner, who dissects one of Donald Trump’s ideas you may not have heard about. The Mainstream Media, including the alleged local daily newspaper in Berkshire County (the name escapes […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 23, 2024) — A couple days ago, Donald Trump put Kamala Harris in the Fry-O-lator. THE PLANET kids you not. The president reported for a shift at a McDonald’s Restaurant in Feasterville-Trevose in the Keystone state of Pennsylvania, a state that may […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 21, 2024) — Tough questions. Can you handle them or not? That’s the essential question for anyone seeking public office, from ward councilor to President of the United States. As a moderator for countless interviews and debates, THE PLANET thought of candidates […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 16, 2024) — Democrats are desperate. That much is clear given recent developments. The manufactured Harris Ascendancy of late July has turned into an October mirage. Meanwhile, they must witness and helplessly watch a re-energized Donald Trump. Knowing how Dems realize they’re […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 11-13, 2024) — THE PLANET bids you Happy Columbus Day! Think the Nov. 5 election is crucial? Don’t look now, but two months after the election and nearly three weeks before the new president takes the oath, the temporary debt-ceiling […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 9, 2024) — Don’t tell anybody, but … Ski-Daddle–THE PLANET hears that this winter, the city of Bitchfield plans to open skis resorts at several spots along Nothing on North. This brilliant plan will make use of the mountains of snow that […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 4-6, 2024) — Relative to the presidential cycle, Tuesday’s Vice Presidential debate presented America with a model of decorum, how to handle the contentious affair with urbanity and without hostility. The affair delineated the stark differences between Republican J. D. […]
BY DANVALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT 2, 2024) — “There’s no dark like a winter night in the country.” So speaks Jack (Sean Bridgers) in Conor McPherson’s The Weir, running through Oct. 27 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Unicorn Theater in Stockbridge. Jack’s right–unless it’s the dark night in […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY SEPT. 30, 2024) — Doing a little dusting and finding a sport for those odds and ends that belong in the “It” drawer [ED. NOTE: The spelling of the headline’s second word is intentional, not a typo … it will go over the […]
