When I was 22 or thereabouts I fell into a hot affair of the soul with a tall, quite slender 20 year-old brunette, at the time a junior at Boston University. She was a little bit taller than I (which was cool), and might have been the greatest hugger I’ve ever known. But going out with a woman nearly a full head taller…I don’t know, man.

…are almost certainly going to get killed in next year’s midterm elections. We’re all summing up 2021 in our heads and making lists about the highlights and misfortunes, etc. And the coming destruction of what’s left of a sensible liberal agenda…a destruction authored entirely by wokester identity-politics zealots…is pointed out chapter and verse in these six “New Rules” riffs, which I watched between 5 am and 6 am this morning.

There are many things I despise about the here-and-now in a social-political sense, but the “J’Accuse!” chorus of condemnation on Twitter has been near the top of my list for a good four years now. And right behind this (i.e., almost as bad) are the HE commenters who keep saying “man, you’ve lost control of yourself” and “is woke terror an obsession?” and so on.

The content in these six Bill Maher essays is 100% real, and the left isn’t modifying or toning down the rhetoric or the insanity. It’s getting worse by the cycle. They won’t listen.

The defeat of Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe was but an appetizer. Main course on its way.

We’ve all heard the famous story about Tallulah Bankhead flashing hairpie during the making of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Lifeboat (’44), and Hitch’s reply when told that some guys on the crew had complained and that he needed to ask Bankhead to show a little modesty. “Not my job,” Hitch allegedly replied. “This could be a situation for wardrobe, or it could be a makeup issue or perhaps even one for hairdressing.”

For me this story never quite lands because no sane or rational-minded Hollywood crew person (sound-stage professionals were entirely male in those days) would ever complain about being flashed. Who would be anti-social or arrogant or priggish enough to complain about such a thing? Ludicrous.

Another version of the incident (offered by Steve Hayes) was that the complaint came from a woman affiliated with the Catholic Legion of Decency who was visiting the set. But since when did such a person have anything to say about behavior or work practices during the shooting of a film? The Catholic Legion of Decency was about judging the moral nature of films awaiting theatrical release…right?

…but a 77% RT approval is certainly more than a passing grade. The IMDB crowd gives it an 8.3. The only resounding thumbs-down reactions are from Metacritic users — 5.6.