BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 22, 1963) — No, a hyper dimensional time warp has not grabbed THE PLANET. We know it’s not 1963, the same as you know why we list that fateful year in today’s dateline. Cultural/social tipping points occur in every generation, those “you never […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY NOV. 20, 2017) — As you might know from the fawning magnification of a feature story published in The Boring Broadsheet Saturday, the Pittsfield Fourth of July Parade Committee, otherwise known as the Committe to Re-Elect Peter Marchetti (CREEPM), conducted a fundraiser over the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 17-19, 2017) — Not to knock your socks off, but THE PLANET finished third in the Ward 1 race behind Helen Moon and Mike Cirullo. Our total of two votes topped by infinity the number of tallies scored by the fourth-place […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 15, 2017) — Garbage collection promises to get a lot more interesting when, not if, the new proposed “tote” system goes into effect. Please though. Before you read any further, don’t let anyone know that you know that this is another of […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, NOV. 13, 2017) — After the most recent in a spate of massacres, this one painted in a Texas church by an ex-Air Force nut job, the usual political responses could be heard echoing throughout the nation’s legislative halls and deliberative bodies. Such […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 10-12, 2017) — There’s been feverish talk about Pittsfield being on the list within Massachusetts as a location for Amazon‘s new satellite facility. The fever has to be above a Kramden-like 111oF to produce pitiable delusions of such magnitude. Amazon […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 8, 2017) — Pittsfield spent around $30,000 for what, exactly? To “elect” six apparatchiks to six school committee seats, one city clerk for one seat, and seven Ward races plus four at-large seats that came in EXACTLY as THE PLANET predicted? The dumbasses in […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY — AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION, TONIGHT, CHANNEL 16 @ 6:30 p-.m. It’s CAN’T MISS TV! — (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, NOV. 6, 2017) — Going back to our grammar school days, THE PLANET has long loved education and learning. This includes the self-taught and acquired kind, which […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 3-5, 2017) — Take a deep breath and hold your noses, friends, as THE PLANET presents this overview of the upcoming “freeze-dried election,” scheduled for Tuesday. Just add Housatonic water and stir. Funny how Tuesday not so long ago used to be […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 1, 2017) — Welcome to November, month of the Crab, month of the Sister. On Friday, THE PLANET‘s Weekend Edition, we shall present our take on the upcoming joke taking place on Tuesday. The joke is on taxpayers. They call it an “election.” […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 30, 2017) — THE PLANET has the scoop on the latest legal swindle perpetuated by JIV and the Pittsfield School Department, with the blessings of The Tyer Administration. Enter the euphemistically named Student Resource Center. The SRC, the PSD tells us, produces “intervention programs” […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 27-29, 2017) — Some children are going to smoke, so let’s provide cigarettes so they won’t have to break the law. Moreoever, it will give us more control over a bad situation. In the same way, some teens will engage […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 25, 2017) — Once upon a time, in a dim and distant present — the time in Pittsfield’s electoral history where “now” officially and finally became “then” — an ersatz collection of “candidates” stood on the ballot pounded so thin by fluid-draining […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 23, 2017) — THE PLANET finally found the correct term with which to label one-party rule in Boston and, of course, in toady Pittsfield, where the local Democrat Party is led by Captain of Red Sox Nation the Rt. Hon. Sherwood Guernsey, Esq. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY EXTRA!! Norman Rockwell’s three sons filed suit today (10-20) in Berkshire Superior Court to enjoin the Berkshire Museum’s planned auction of art work. The action comes as the state attorney general’s office moves closer to issuing a halt on the proposed Sotheby’s auction. Things are popping. Stay […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 18, 2017) – Health care, not the sexiest topic, doesn’t need to be decked out in Victoria’s Secret to be of vital interest to every living American — even some dead ones. First, three general points need to be made: There’s no […]
