Last summer my daughters started a relentless campaign to get a Peleton bike.  I think it was summer, the seasons in Southern California ten...

Found in the tiny trunk of my 2015 Audi S5 (I bought it used, so spare me any that coastal elitist nonsense). The tag had been attached to m...

Sorry that politics has dominated this week's R17 postings. But it is. And it will. At least until normalcy and optimism returns to the ...

Lost in the biggest election news of my 44 year old lifetime, was the monumental decision by Garden Staters to legalize a plant that can be ...

As I have stated on many occasions, I often do my R17 blogging in one sitting.  That is, I have carved out some alone time for myself, early...

Today's post is going to be exceedingly short. For a number of reasons. It's Wednesday, late afternoon as I write this. Coming off a...

Went to a doctor the other day, third one in 5 months. He's an orthopedic surgeon. And I was hoping he could help relieve the nagging pa...

It's Election Day 2020. But before we get to that let's go back four years to Election Day 2016, when the electoral college, in all ...

The other day a piece of copy came back to my desk, my virtual desk.  I had errantly used the word "precision." It's a good wo...

I know you don't come here for book reports, but I'm going to share one with you anyway. Because with less than a week before the mo...

If you were to get binary about it, there are two types of people in America during Covid -19: people who wear masks, and Maskholes.  If you...

I came across a podcast the other day.  It featured a legend of modern day advertising, pimping his new creative venture. I wish him all the...

The Circle of Strife. I rarely use the headline of the post as the first line in the post, but on this occasion I will because I'm that ...

It's the end of another week here at R17 and it has just occurred to me that every post has been about Commander Assnapkin (that's r...

I know that when most of you see this hat you think, "there goes an uncouth, uneducated clod with no sense of taste or style." But...

If you know me, and after eleven years of posting on this blog and revealing my most telling secrets, you ought to, you know that when I...

There's a point in Bob Woodward's new book, RAGE, where Precedent Shitgibbon has invited the author down to Mara Lago.  Why he would...

I know I've said it before but I'll say it again, "advertising just ain't as much fun as it used to be." And by 'u...

Like you, I have been homebound for the past 8 months. Choosing to safely ensconce myself in my humble abode in an abundance of caution. Not...

Whenever I get in "discussions" with Trumpsters, and stupidly, I allow myself to get in many, there's always a common refrain ...