BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 25, 2024) — Some 30 years ago, media critic Edward Herman and linguist Noam Chomsky coined the term “manufacturing consent.” It referred to the media’s ability to influence and impose “group think” (from Orwell’s 1984) on a lazy, unsuspecting, and increasingly dullard […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 22-4, 2024) — Today THE PLANET discusses the happenings in Ukraine. They affect every person in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the East Coast, America, Europe and the world. Behind all of it, nukes. In a Wednesday speech to the Bundestag, German […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY [ED. NOTE: The resemblance of anyone depicted in this column to any living, breathing human being is strictly coincidental owing to the fact that they all are politicians] (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2024) — Welcome to the second day of spring. We made it, gang. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 18, 2024) — Last week, Boston Herald veteran columnist Peter Lucas wrote a story detailing how Gov. Maura Healey was punishing the Town of Milton (pop. 28,000) for not obeying a state directive to change its zoning to accommodate more “affordable housing.” You […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 15-7, 2024) — It always amuses when we find someone willing to speak out, insisting on anonymity, which we typically grant. It follows, usually the next day, that THE PLANET gets accused of inventing an imaginary source. The accusations, never made […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2024) — The Maypo Administration would love the Kapanskis to forget to recent fiasco over the nearly-$50,000 “missing invoice” the mayor dismissed by saying “it fell through the cracks.” The money involved one day of tree service from a March 14, 2023 […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 11, 2024) — Balance has always been the right approach in life. Without water, you’ll die of thirst. Drink too much, though, and you will die of consumption. If there’s 10 on the left, be sure you have 10 on the right and […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 8-10, 2024) — THE PLANET begins with a brief reaction to Thursday night’s State of the Union Address. “Come on, man!” This wasn’t a SOTU update. Biden gave a stump speech. How embarrassing. He attacked his predecessor, something no president […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 7, 2024) — If nuclear war breaks out, it won’t be initiated by China, Russia, or the United States. It will be by Iran or North Korea. THE PLANET‘s money is on Iran for the simple reason that the country has religion. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 4, 2024) — During Donald Trump’s term as president, the United States had resumed its place as the globe’s No. 1 Alpha Male, a standing lost under 16 years first of George W. Bush then Barack Obama. By all measures — border […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 1-3, 2024) — It didn’t take long for the illustrious sad-sack mayor Marky Maypo to become embroiled in the hot sauce, did it? Are we talking scandal and coverup, or stunning incompetence? There’s no third possibility. At Tuesday’s council meeting, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENT (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 28, 2024) — From high atop the Aragon Ballroom, in beautiful downtown Bitchfield, THE PLANET presents a new play by Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath. It is both farce and tragedy. Actually, THE PLANET coins a new term for this […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1, 2/26, p.m. — Charles Kronick, better known as the gallant SIR CHAZ, posted this from his white steed in the comments section: City Council Agenda Item 12: requesting $48,900 ($50,000!) payment on bills for services rendered 3/2023. !2 months late, they want $50K and as […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 23-5, 2024) — We hear much about politicians talk about how they’re going to “save democracy.” It’s an interesting supposition premised on an unstated assumption that (a) we already have a democracy and (b) it’s in peril. Of course, if […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 21, 2024) — In Tuesday’s Boston Herald, THE PLANET read a chilling story about the latest racial scam to gain traction, reparations. Something called the New Democracy Coalition, a scary name if ever there was one, and the Boston People’s Black Reparation […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 19, 2024) — With exactly one month to spring, THE PLANET finds it a convenient time to bring yet another fresh viewpoint forward, one in contrast with the propaganda of the DEI Left. Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since Fani […]
