BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MAY 11, 2026) — When you place a magnifying glass over a postage stamp, you can make the stick-em as big as a cigarette pack. Put the stamp under an electron microscope, and you’d think you were looking at a picture of deep […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 8-10, 2026) — It looks as if folks are beginning to pay attention. Whether it lasts, because history informs THE PLANET that it hasn’t in more than 40 years, remains to be seen. PCTV has had record viewing, and we’ve […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MAY 6, 2026) — Walk into most any store today and you’ll see for sale bric-a-brac, tchotchkes, sundry items, and other dust collectors related to America’s upcoming 250th anniversary — hats, key rings, paper plates, Frisbees, lip balm, even condoms … you name […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MAY 4, 2026) — Peter Marchetti is a walking conflict of interest, serving both as Bitchfield mayor and chair of the city’s sochol committee (SC). The two roles put him in double jeopardy for voting on the school budget while proposing the city […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 1-3, 2026) — Today and for the weekend, THE PLANET takes you to the movies. Now, it’s not our upcoming Stanley Kubrick Film Festival. It’s a tape of the most recent meeting of Revenge of the Nerds, otherwise known as […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 2026)– Today, THE PLANET shares a guest column by Gavin Ashenden, associate editor of The Catholic Herald. The article was first published in the National Catholic Register. It concerns the visit of Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally to the Vatican, where […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MoNDAY APRIL 27, 2026) — Fortunately for Donald Trump and America, third time was NOT the charm. Heavily armed Cole Allen, a teacher at a testing institute in California, made like Usain Bolt, sprinted his way past the check in desk, and got off […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 24-6, 2026) — Let’s see. By THE PLANET‘s count, we have more-or-less 50 states in the union. Care to guess which one stands alone as the only state that exempts the governor’s office, the legislature (both houses), and the judiciary […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 2026) — While THE PLANET waits along with everyone else to see how the rapidly evolving situation with Iran turns out, we offer this change of pace. Baseball. _____________________________ MEET DAN VALENTI @ BARNES & NOBLE PITTSFIELD 2 p.m. SAT., APRIL […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY APRIL 20, 2026) — Unlike the rest of public Commonwealth, THE PLANET does not take Patriot’s Day off. Instead, we will keep bees as more than 30,000 halfwits prove their manhood, women included, in the Boston Marathon as the Red Sox lose their […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 17-9, 2026) — For more than a score of years, THE PLANET as well as all other objective observers have plotted a reciprocal but opposite correlation between performance in the Bitchfield public school system and the amount of taxpayer dollars […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 15, 2026) — Clearing off the desk of tidbits: KAM II?: You haven’t heard of disgraced “Rev.” Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention. No one has, except for a small group of black activists who cherish racism disguised as social change. Sharpton’s gig […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE MONDAY APRIL 13, 2026) — No breakdowns but no breakthroughs. _______________________________ MARK THE DATE! APRIL 25 @ 2 p.m. DAN VALENTI WILL BE SIGNING COPIES OF HIS LATEST, “SANITY MADE SIMPLE,” @ BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS, PITTSFIELD. ________________________________ That’s the best way THE PLANET […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 10-2, 2026) — This weekend will mark the most important two days of the “war” with Iran. THE PLANET employs quotes not because Congress never authorized the president’s actions but because Israeli warmonger and terrorist head Benjamin Netanyahu declared this […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY APRIL 8, 2026) — “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These were the words of Mr. Bluster, a.k.a. President Donald Trump, Tuesday morning. He was speaking of his latest “deadline” regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. Again, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY APRIL 6, 2026) — Will President Trump once again be all bluster, or will he stick to his thrice-delayed “absolute deadline” and hit Iran’s power grid and bring decimation? THE PLANET will have you recall that nine days ago at 8 p.m. EST, […]
