Posts Tagged ‘commentary’
Ron & Jen’s Great Escape, August 9, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary HAVE WE ALWAYS BEEN THIS FAKE? The other day I was sitting with my mother, and we were watching some “shopping channel” and after 15 minutes I thought… “My God. Have WE (THE COLLECTIVE) always been so fake”?! In the press over the past few years, there…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape – August 2, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary LORDY, LORDY, LOOK WHO’S 40 It’s so funny to me now looking back at the 80’s. I said for many, many years how “I HATED THE 80’s”, but now I realize… I really didn’t. As a teen I was caught somewhere between U2 , the COSBY’S, and…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape, July 26, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary This generation sucks I really can’t seem to come up with another title for this week’s submission… because the fact is they do suck. I just saw an article saying how much the youth of this nation (18-24) loathe America. I sit back and scratch my dyed…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape, July 19, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary LOOK AT ME I’M SANDRA DEE! Why are people obsessed with themselves? Can someone PLEASE explain this to me? Never in my existence on this planet have I seen so MANY PEOPLE so self-absorbed. Selfie after selfie after selfie after selfie. Many pics on social media are…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape, July 12, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary So, if you didn’t know by now, Ron and I have a wacky Saturday show that airs at 7am on 920whjj.com – 104.7FM locally on iHeartRadio. Now you might think I bring this up to pimp myself and honestly there’s a little truth to that, but I bring it…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape, July 5, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
MADE IN THE USA When I was in high school, 9th or 10th grade, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” was a massive hit. Most of the teen guys wore bandanas around their heads, wrists, necks… they had faded Levi’s on with white t-shirts and blasted the song from their parents cars. Or if rich and spoiled…
Read More“An Original American” – Gregory Butler
by Gregory Butler, commentary to RINewsToday His father, who married young, sailed across the ocean with his wife and three children to that place called New England. To Boston. The hero of our story was the youngest son in what became a very large family. At ten years old he was put to work in…
Read MoreHomeless in RI: “Lack of vision, planning to blame for homelessness” – Benedict Lessing
by Benedict F. Lessing Jr., commentary We are barely six months away from the kind of inclement weather that creates dangerous circumstances for people living outside. What we know is that the number of people living outside or as the Coalition to End Homelessness characterizes are living in places unfit for human habitation continues to…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape, June 28, 2023 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary Last Man Standing Wayyyy back in middle school I learned right away how it felt not to be popular or athletic. We would go out for recess and play kickball. Captains would choose their teams and if you were picked last that meant, literally, you sucked. You…
Read MoreTaking Down RFK Jr. – Michael Morse
By Michael Morse, contributing writer, commentary Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Rogan had a great conversation last week, some forty million people listened, among them, Elon Musk and Peter Hotez. Elon needs no introduction, Hotez is a familiar face, if you watch cable news. His appearances on MSNBC, CNN and the networks, to advocate for…
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