Don Hall 9/21/20 Don Hall 9/21/20

I Believe… [Gambling Away Your Unemployment Check]

I believe… that if you use your unemployment money for entertainment instead of paying your bills, you’re a human shit nugget.

Don Hall 9/15/20 Don Hall 9/15/20

Finding What Really Matters When It All Shifts for the Worse

The Vegas mid-day sky is strangely dark and slightly orange. The sun, ordinarily a blazing hot laser that has this amazing hostility in the desert, is muted. I can stare right at it and see it’s perfect circle. It is the stuff of a Ridley Scott dystopia.

Don Hall 9/14/20 Don Hall 9/14/20

I Believe… [Using Privilege While Fighting Privilege]

I believe… that White looters and antifa wannabes fighting against White privilege not being charged with obvious crimes they committed is kind of the most ironic use of White privilege. Ah, Paradox!

Don Hall 9/13/20 Don Hall 9/13/20

Blurring the Lines of Villainy

We love Walter White because we understand him even as we know that if he was a real person we’d want him imprisoned until the cancer ate him alive and as far away from us as possible. Harley Quinn is a blast unless she showed up at your kid’s birthday party and started swinging her anarchist giant croquet mallet into the faces of the screaming parents.

Don Hall 9/12/20 Don Hall 9/12/20

The Tone of the Exchange is the Music of the Moment

The dilemma is a lack of curiosity with a sense of cultural animosity as an obstacle. The best musicians see all music as worthy of study and appreciation. The musicians of note explore the music of everyone to find influences and include them into their own repertoire.

Don Hall 9/10/20 Don Hall 9/10/20

Systemic Homophobia: A Comparison

He just threw out things he had determined were homophobic without anything but his saying so as evidence. It was like he had a dartboard of society, tossed a dart, and whatever it landed on was that day’s new homophobic thing.

Don Hall 9/8/20 Don Hall 9/8/20

Setting Yourself Up for Crushing Disappointment

High expectations are a mistake.

Don Hall 9/7/20 Don Hall 9/7/20

I Believe… [Living in a Bugs Bunny World]

…that when journalistic objectivity, property ownership, and craft jam are all indicators of white supremacy, we’ve now entered into a Chuck Jones cartoon as a society.

Don Hall 9/5/20 Don Hall 9/5/20

Who Cares What I Think About...Anything?

I realize, coming from me, that the following statement will likely cause neck injuries from the Bugs Bunny face shaking incredulity, but you don’t have to have a strong opinion about everything.

Don Hall 9/1/20 Don Hall 9/1/20

Correcting the Orwellian Doublespeak for Zoomers

If Orwell had seen this new reality, 1984 would’ve been unreadable because while Big Brother proposed that ‘War is Peace’ Angry Brother would be saying “No. War isn’t Peace. Peace is Power.”

Don Hall 8/31/20 Don Hall 8/31/20

I Believe… [Enabling the Trump]

I believe… that the only person who benefits from protests devolving into riots and looting while being excused as somehow acceptable is Donald Trump.

Don Hall 8/29/20 Don Hall 8/29/20

See Through the Fear Mongering

In most cases neither pitch is likely but if the choice is presented as life or death, good versus evil, black and white nonsense the least curious and most gullible will leap to one side or the other.

Don Hall 8/25/20 Don Hall 8/25/20

When It Comes to Trauma, Belief Really Is a Sledgehammer

If it’s as simple as reframing your relationship to trauma to turn it into a gain rather than a subtraction, why would anyone choose otherwise?

Don Hall 8/24/20 Don Hall 8/24/20

I Believe… [Bad Knick Knack Branding]

I believe… that if you hope to sell your souvenirs and Old West figurines in Virginia City perhaps posting your TRUMP 2020 signs are a bad business move.

Don Hall 8/23/20 Don Hall 8/23/20

Election 2020: A Referendum on the Country’s Soul (Hulk Hogan Said So)

Certainly, his speech was laden with a sense of stake and dread. Unusually, a former president openly criticized and dismissed the current office-holder but that wasn’t the religion he espoused. He asked for, he demanded, fealty to the concept of Democracy.

Don Hall 8/22/20 Don Hall 8/22/20

Why Vegas Will Survive COVID-19

Las Vegas is an entire city located in an entire state founded on hope. Hope for a better life, hope for a lucky day, hope for a taste of glamour.

Don Hall 8/20/20 Don Hall 8/20/20

The New Catch-22

The new Catch-22 is that with social media, I am trained to hate my fellow humans. Without it, I feel like the world is passing me by. Keep the accounts, hate people. Lose the accounts, miss them.

Don Hall 8/17/20 Don Hall 8/17/20

I Believe… [If You’re Gonna Loot… Er… Secure Reparations…]

I believe… that, had I been in Chicago during the Reparation Looting, I’d have looted the shit out of Garrett’s Popcorn and Whole Foods. I mean, a Nike High-Top ain’t feeding my kids, right?

Don Hall 8/15/20 Don Hall 8/15/20

The Quandary of the Left — Is Looting Without Protest Justifiable?

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s gonna want a glass of milk.

There’s gotta be a better way.

Don Hall 8/13/20 Don Hall 8/13/20

I Didn’t Like Tipper Gore, Either

I know—calling any strident bunch of moralists “Puritans” is a bit like comparing any authoritarian politician to Adolf Hitler but if the shoe fits...