KC Confidential

It may be a two way street but etiquette shouldn’t always prevail…

The bathroom in our neighborhood gym is a unisex operation – as in both sexes use it.

And of course, half the time I use it, the toilet lid is down.

So the first thing I do generally is lift it.

And you know, I’m fine with that.

However why should I have to lower it again after doing my business?

That’s DOUBLE-LIDDING.

Besides, the next bathroom user may also be of the male persuasion.

And what of the previous female user who didn’t show the courtesy of lifting the lid for a possible next male user? Continue reading →

Newspaper editorial pages have been slobbering over presidential candidates forever…

As in well over 100 years, but who’s counting? Hardly anybody these days except Hillary Clinton, John Katich who’ve been cleaning up this election cycle in the outdated game..

Take the Indianapolis Star‘s non-endorsement endorsement of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

“A President Trump would be a danger to the United States and to the world,” the Star warned readers.

Readers who once-upon-a-time relied on newspapers for news, information and opinions.

No mas.

These days daily newspapers are information sources of last resort on all but the most local of issues.

“You know, editorial boards across the country hardly have their pulse on the nation,” CNN consultant  Kayleigh McEnany quipped in response to the Indy Star‘s shot at Trump. 

“Virtually every newspaper endorsed John Kasich from the New York Times on down,” she continued. “They really are completely out of touch. They have no idea what the American people want. You know, editorial boards, I don’t think people are taking their marching orders from them.” Continue reading →

Well folks, it’s over…

Donald Trump is gonna be the Republican nominee for president of these United States.

Tuesday night sealed the deal!

Trump not only won all five eastern states but crushed it.

He took down Ted Cruz and for good. Trump took every state by huge margins, while Cruz came in last in every state but one.

John Kasich was also a no show.

They both are now toast.

Now even the old guard fuddy-duddies at the GOP will have to back the Donald. He’s just too popular and will likely get to 1237. This will be close to becoming official after Trump takes Indiana next week.

Frankly, there’s no path to winning the nomination even at a brokered convention for Cruz or Kasich anymore. They’re just not electable in a general election and have no support to speak of.

And now that we’re done, can we dispense with all the silly, “Oh Cruz or Kasich can beat Hillary better according to some poll, while and Trump can’t?”

What a crock, that always was pure b.s. 

Those numbers were and are impossible since neither of them can get their voters to vote for them even in Republican primaries.

The flip side of which is that Donald Trump will be a formable foe for Hillary and Bill come November. And make no mistake, this election will be a battle.

Next up: Who will Hillary pick for her vice president?

And who will Trump ride with as his co star?

Clinton should look at Bernie Sanders to be her VP if she hopes to win this thing. In some ways – with younger voters – he’s more popular than she is or Trump. Without Bernie the Dems may not get enough voters out to thump Trump!

Sanders is the reason Democrats have had more voters out than the Republicans thus far. If Clinton puts Bernie on the ticket it likely would ensure the win.

Trump’s in a tougher spot.

Because there is no clear second person that makes him a winner.  Continue reading →

This just in…

Following tomorrow’s final Super Tuesday, Donald Trump should be the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Ah, but not so fast.

Because it’s likely his delegate count will be near 1000 of the needed 1237 to insure his nomination. So like him or no,  Trump has earned his spot. He has millions more votes, has won twice the states as the rest of his competitors combined and is the people’s choice. Yet no cigar.

And now in a new move to STOP TRUMP, rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich have teamed up to try and derail him. They will bow out of upcoming  state races up in order to minimize Trump’s delegate count and deny him the first ballot nomination.

Neither Cruz or Kasich can get the 1237 delegates needed – that’s over.

The game is that the old guard Republicans want Trump out even if it means risking handing the election to Hillary Clinton, which it surely would.

Why?

Because Trump’s a racist? A fascist? A women hater? A phony? All of the above?

Uh, no. Continue reading →

The fantastical world of Snow White and the Huntsman expands this weekend by revealing how the fates of huntsman Eric and Queen Ravenna are dangerously intertwined…

Turns out that long before the evil queen (Charlize Theron) was believed to be vanquished by Snow White’s blade, she observed her younger sister Freya’s heartbreaking betrayal and exit from the castle.

But Freya was pregnant and the magic mirror spilled the devastating news that the child’s beauty was destined to surpass that of the evil sorceress queen.

Ah, but Freya (Emily Blunt) unleashed her own secret weapon—the ability to create ice which she employed in her new land of the North and used to train children into an army of huntsmen.

Fast forward to years later.

Young Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) are all grown up—and are forbidden lovers and, and……

Well, I’d better stop right here. After all, this is a fairytale and who am I to spill the magic beans? Continue reading →