It dawned on me, recently, that I have spent most of my life surrounded by people who shared the same, (or damn similar), social and political beliefs as I. Lately, maybe because the emotional polarity between conservative and liberal thinking has widened, I find myself face-to-face with friends, family and…
The blissfully hurricane-shortened, (I don’t mean to imply here that anything about Isaac, other than lopping a full day off of the convention schedule, is anything but tragic), gathering of the Fairy Dust Party provided a smorgasbord, (all-you-can-eat where Chris Christie was concerned), of self-serving speakers, whose topics and agendas…
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling legitimately raped by nearly everyone participating in the freak show that has overtaken my country’s political process. Sure, it’s always had its idiotic and smarmy parts. It is, after all, a contest of false promises by falser promisers seeking jobs, the descriptions…
You’d think that being Vice President and giving a speech in a crowded room filled with TV cameras, photographers and disgruntled reporters, (the ones who got the bogus assignment rather than the cool ride on Air Force One), that you might have actually prepared by writing down what you were…
Ladies and gentlemen…Paul Ryan. Let’s see…that would be Paul Ryan, from the very confused state of Wisconsin, who ran for and was elected to the US Congress. I’m assuming, although I’ve never met him, nor had the opportunity to chat one-on-one, that he had some idea of what the job…
As a public service to those of you whose schedules are simply too busy to watch your favorite Olympic events, (live or tape-delayed), fulfill your normally required daily activities, (vocational, social, familial and/or those related to personal hygiene), and try to keep up with all of the excitement of the…
I think I wrote a very cynical piece during the Beijing Games, (I’m too lazy to check), about how nationalism and commercialism diminishes the purity of the best-of-the-best competition between athletes. Assuming I did, and with the start of the London Games, (and the crazy notion that I’m still blogging…
It wasn’t someone yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theater in Aurora, CO this week, but someone actually firing into the crowd. The NRA will tell anyone who cares to listen that it wasn’t guns that killed twelve and wounded fifty-eight more, (ironically, statistics would indicate that it’s likely that some…
I guess my bullshit filter has discounted so much of the blather that I lost track of just how unbalanced the negative, unsubstantiated deluge of mostly misinformation has become. Suddenly I realize that the squeakiest wheels, hurling thunderbolts of impending Armageddon down upon those who would dare to stand up…
I suppose it’s because there are so few issues, but, of late, much of the news media have begun to lead off their reports with the SuperPac race for the money, and guess what? The pro Obama SuperPacs are losing. And guess what else? No one should give a shit….