I am glad to spend time at my mother’s. There’s a pool to swim in when it’s warm and lots of room to bring friends. Mostly, it’s Mom and me as she slows. Or maybe slows is the wrong word. As she leaves.

Portland's current judicial system/activist class could not have rolled out any more of a red carpet to the man who murdered Rachael Abraham, a mother of six, three of whom were in the next (or the same) room as their mother as stabbed and strangled to death. Which begs the question: What are you willing to give up on the road to criminal justice reform?

The slippery slope of political fabulism, from the "Jew-ish" freshman representative to the president of the United States.

Everything modern Portland did led up to the horrific, predictable murder of Rachael Abraham

Nancy Rommelmann reads her recent story on the brutal slaying of Rachael Abraham, a mother of six in Portland, Oregon, and how everything modern Portland did led to her horrific and predicted murder

In the mid-'70s, people disengaged from political conflict and took up jogging. Maybe it's time to do the same.

Ululating Armenian widows in West Hollywood, Scientologists selling Amway in Atwater Village, gun-play in Silver Lake and swimming polls filled with Evian water in Beverly Park. "Meet the Neighbors," an excerpt from FORTY BUCKS AND A DREAM, STORIES OF LOS ANGELES, by Nancy Rommelmann

But…does that make any sense?

Why are Portland journalists, in fall 2022, writing about two van abductions in summer 2020? Is it an editorial effort to distract from the problems of now, including historic levels of violent crime? A late entry into the “activists are blameless” category? A response to what seems like an evasive if not cynical article in The Verge.

South Korean government brings country's greatest cultural export to heel.

Influential media critic Margaret Sullivan demonstrates the perils of letting narrative get ahead of verification.

The New York Times newsroom illustrates what happens when you listen to the New York Times editorial board.

One in 7 American men is categorized as a NILF - Not In Labor Force. This is a crisis, one that will drive us crazy and break our hearts and take the American economy god knows where while our loved ones sink into lives of despair.

Even reduced immigration and job openings for miles aren't luring America's ever-growing workforce dropouts back in

Nancy Rommelmann on drinking with the one-time Great White Hope in a Santa Monica dive on her 26th birthday: "Jerry Quarry says he is considering another comeback. This seems to me unlikely; he is not fit, and there is something unmoored about his eyes. It’s nearly five and he’s been drinking for a while. Then it’s nearly six..."

Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.

"Of course, the men need to feed on a host and Marilyn is perfect. She has gorgeous t**s, gorgeous eyes, she is an open maw of trust, into which the men snake their needs, the kind that might deposit sperm into her wonderful hair..."

Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch talk Portland, Minneapolis, schools and white flight, on the weekly See You Next Tuesday vlog, every Tuesday at noon EST on the Paloma Media YouTube.

Nancy Rommelmann and Matt Welch talk Beach Boys, "Reservation Dogs," and watching Nancy's daughter on TV, on the weekly See You Next Tuesday vlog, every Tuesday at noon EST on the Paloma Media YouTube.

What unites Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, Steve Bannon, and the Lincoln Project? They all got stupid rich by you being big mad.

Nancy Rommelmann was fortunate, through accident and the fog of war, to stay with Oksana Hutnyk and her family in Lviv, Ukraine this past March, two weeks after Russian forces invaded the country. Now, in mid-September, Oksana and her daughters, ages 13 and 7, have received special permission to leave Ukraine and visit America. First stop: Nancy's cramped apartment in NYC, where Oksana has a chance talk about why Ukraine banded together so quickly to fight Russia (hint: super-not interested...

Man, did things get testy in 2006 when I quizzed him about Vladimir Putin!

Is there a single movie more tied up with lousy government policy than "Field of Dreams"?

It's an Orban-twofer! From Matt Welch. First, Kleptocratic Hungarian leader, under fire for "mixed race" speech, condemns America for weaponizing energy, antagonizing Russia, and incubating gender "lunacy" ("U.S. Conservatives Set To Applaud Viktor Orbán's Paranoid Anti-Americanism"), and second, the Hungarian prime minister also makes the historically illiterate claim that Christians can't be racist ("Viktor Orbán Flatters Republicans With the Lie That Progressive Liberals and Communists Are...