I was on a flight from Albany to Burbank the other day with a brief stop in Las Vegas. For one thing, I was the only through passenger. For another, the flight was packed to the gills with testosterone oozing, mostly overweight, forty-somethings who could all easily pass for Peter…
Ronald Reagan had it. Certainly, many powerful figures throughout history had it. But now, through virtually instant access by nearly anyone to hoards of starving, cross-pollinated social media junkies, the ability to seem like you have something to say has trumped, (pun intended), the once tacit requirement of actually having…
Thirteen-hour filibuster N. Korean nuclear bluster One dead Hugo Doggie bag diplomacy to go A record high DOW Lower unemployment…wow But Still lower expectations for hope And oh New Pope?…nope!
I’m guessing that the Michigan State Lottery did not provide the promised “windfall funding” to public education and that gambling casinos in downtown Detroit have not filled the city’s coffers with “economically game-changing” tax revenue and, as far as I can tell, the bailed out, and reemerging American automobile industry…
If only it were about a bold and swarthy explorer like Magellan or Vespucci rather than one of the most blatantly stupid ideas of all time. So, a bunch of overpaid and generally unqualified representatives of, well, as it turns out…hardly anybody, with a complete lack of understanding, (or possibly…
And by ship, I mean like Carnival’s Triumph kind, floating powerlessly, reeking of human waste and with far less purpose than Gilligan’s Minnow. Remember the immediate reaction by disgruntled Republican deck hands to Obama’s first election, declaring, as their “number one priority”, that his tenure would last but a single…
I don’t know how universal or deep the “winning” gene is buried in our DNA, (a test of Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood may shed some light), but modern criteria to determine winners from losers, (unless there is something other than chiding involved in the, “there are no losers”, mantra in…
I have been irrationally frustrated by the political debate on, well, just about everything for as long as I can remember. Like many people who try to stay informed to take a self-righteous stand as the goodly voice of reason battling the dark souls of greed, corruption and the generally…
I really wasn’t prepared for Monday’s Inauguration ceremony to be a goose-bumpy moment; certainly not like last time. But then, the guy I actually voted for showed up to take the oath, (even if he couldn’t get out the word “states”), and gave the unexpected speech that I’d been waiting…
Hey…did you hear? Jodie Foster sorta said she’s gay. Lance Armstrong…doper/cheater/bully…probably not gay?…Oprah didn’t ask…Anderson Cooper [giggle, giggle, giggle]. Look, the Golden Globes is a pointless enough exercise of celebrities trying to act humble and grateful while alcoholically challenged. Usually the highlights are about the prepared or seemingly unprepared musings…