Author: Steve DiMatteo

So you’ve been tasked with working from home for the foreseeable future, whether you like it or not. With limited human contact during this time, it can be hard to keep your grip on reality, but I’m here to help! As a veteran of working from home for many years, I’ve developed some tips and tricks to make it a manageable – and fun – process. Here are some ways to stay completely sane while working from home: Maintain Your Social Contacts When working from home, especially for a long period of time, it’s easy to get lost within your…

Credit: Gage Skidmore Joe Biden has taken a commanding lead in the race to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, but you wouldn’t know it by his silence during the coronavirus pandemic. As things become more dire across the country, President Trump has taken to daily press briefings that are devolving, per usual, into horror shows. Somewhere between five to five hundred people stand at the podium with him, each one of them offering their increasingly bad bits of news. Trump himself has berated reporters, spread false information, and looked like his typical buffoonish self. Many senators and congresspeople have…

If you’ve got fears about the coronavirus that is currently taking over the world, we’ve got the movie that will assuredly calm those fears. In 1995’s Outbreak, Dustin Hoffman stars as a military scientist fighting a virus that has no cure and liquifies your insides in a matter of hours. Best of all, when the virus finds its way into a small California town, the government’s solution to the problem is to simply drop a bomb and vaporize the town out of existence. Very comforting! Outbreak was on the early end of ’90s ensemble disaster movies (it also stars Rene…

Credit: Gage Skidmore After a surprising performance in the New Hampshire primary that saw her take third place and snag six delegates, the media was all about Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar’s momentum heading into the Nevada caucuses. That momentum must have been faster than the speed of light, because I sure didn’t see it in the destruction she endured, ending up in sixth place in the weekend’s caucuses (behind Tom Steyer) and, I’d say, effectively ending her run for president. As Bernie Sanders continues to solidify his national lead and build a winning coalition of essentially all demographics, Klobuchar should…

Credit: Gage Skidmore How many more states does Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden have to skip and/or be utterly embarrassed in before he’s finally in first place where he belongs? How many more poor primary showings will it take before you motherfuckers realize he’s the best man for the job? All of them? Is that what it’s going to be? Who else but this doddering old man who insults his own supporters and does something every day that makes you cringe can defeat President Trump? What will it take to get through your thick skull and make you understand that…

You might not know this, but the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film from 1990 was, for a time, the BIGGEST INDEPENDENT MOVIE OF ALL TIME. This ridiculous premise about some pizza-loving radioactive turtles who also happen to be ninjas had just as much of a hold on kids then as it does now and, as you might expect, the turtles’ thirty-year-old first movie holds up finer than almost anything that came after it in the franchise. On its surface, sure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a kids’ movie, but like all good kids’ movies, there’s a little something…

We’re finally digging into the meat and potatoes of the 2020 election season, as the Iowa caucuses have kicked things off, proving once again that they are absolutely dumb as hell. For the second time in a row, the Iowa Democratic Party is lost and confused in its moment on the big stage, wondering how a system in which officials are putting their chicken scratch on random sheets of paper could possibly go wrong. While there was plenty of confusion in 2016 that resulted in late reporting of the final tallies, the Democrats took things up a notch this year…

Enemy of the State is a ’90s movie that attempts to scare us with the plot of a U.S. government willing to pass legislation giving it complete authority to spy on its citizens, a completely insane notion… that was carried out in reality just a few years after the movie was released. Eerie prescience aside (though it greatly enhances this movie’s ability to hold up over the years), Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State is a great action thriller that features Will Smith at the height of his powers, taking on more of a mature role during an epic run…

The Vietnam War was, at best, a colossal military failure for the United States and, at worst, a demonstration of the country’s willingness to commit atrocities of all kinds and consistently find ways to try to justify them. But one good innovation did come from the war, and it was in the form of dick-biting dolphins trained by the U.S. Navy. According to Max Hastings’ exhaustive Vietnam history, five bottlenose dolphins – named Garth, John, Slan, Tinker, and Toad – were deployed to Cam Ranh Bay to guard an ammunition pier and attack “swimming saboteurs” in the early ’70s. According…

Congratulations on making it to the end of the 2019! Your prize will be enduring 2020, which will feature nonstop election coverage from the second the year begins, and it will only get progressively more insane with every passing second after that, until none of us will be able to comprehend the supposed reality set before us, which can only result in an eventual complete breakdown of our collective mental capacities and, of course, society itself. Anyway! Until that happens, check out the ten most-read posts we published in 2019: 10. We’re Sorry Sir, But ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’ Refers to…