This came yesterday, and it wasn’t with the usual cast of characters – namely Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson. Dan was off and Amy has left the Chicago Morning Answer show. So instead, Chris Krok was guest hosting.
And it was a good segment. The discussion spanned from the lingering controversy over the Russia investigation to the unresolved questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, and ended with a grim reflection on the difficulty of holding the nation’s elites accountable.
The YouTube of this is just below, but in the meantime let me issue a little apology/explanation for being a bit on the silent side this week here at The Hayride. I haven’t really posted much of anything on the site in the last few days.
There are a few reasons for that. First, there isn’t much of anything happening in Louisiana politics right now worth my spending time on. I came close a couple of times to popping off about the state’s Democrats throwing a fit over the ideas that illegals and able-bodied layabouts who won’t work 20 hours a week might be getting thrown off Medicaid, but at the end of the day what that screaming is really about is that some of the big hospitals who have been getting fat on those Medicaid payments might have to go on a diet, and I’ve already written about that.
And I could have piled on LaToya Cantrell and the Essence Festival, and what a mess that was, but at the end of the day I don’t care. I don’t even care about the New Orleans mayor’s race, which is clearly going to be a race to the bottom between Helena Moreno, Oliver Thomas and Royce Duplessis, all three of whom will wreck that city even more than Cantrell has done. Other than qualifying I haven’t seen any of them do anything this week worth commenting on.
So it wasn’t a bad week to shut up about state politics.
Also, I’ve been busy with national stuff, what with the three American Spectator columns I’ve written and the four Spectacle Podcast segments we did this week, not to mention four different radio and podcast appearances. There’s only so much punditry you can do in a week before you run out of things to say.
And it’s July. If you can’t take it easy in July, when can you?
But there’s one other reason, and it’s this: I’m in the breakneck stage of finishing Blockbusters, the new Mike Holman novel that I’m writing. It might be the best of the three – in this one, Mike is charged with, and given virtually unlimited funds for, a campaign to save American and Western culture from the woke rot that has infected it, and his first project in that campaign is to stage a takeover of sorts of Hollywood. That, as you might imagine, quickly becomes a lot more difficult than anybody thought, but kicking over the satirical antpile this book allows me to has been an enormous amount of fun.
We’re going to be serializing Blockbusters at The American Spectator starting THIS WEEKEND. We’ll be posting episodes – there will be nine of them – each Saturday. So check that out at spectator.org, and then in October the full book will make its debut at Amazon.
So that’s what’s going on, and it’s why you haven’t seen all that much from me here this week.