I love this country. I just wish it still loved me.
I have lived in the area of America known as the "Heartland" for most of my life. As a left-leaning liberal intellectual with artistic aspirations, I have- on occaision- felt somewhat... Distinct......
View ArticleFox news inaugural coverage MELT DOWN.
This is courtesy of the excellent Oliver Willis site. Anchor Brigitte Quinn sets up an interview with Vanity Fair's Judy Bachrach. Clearly Fox was expecting a sort of social overview of the inaugural...
View ArticleA Fine, Frothing Rage...
One of the highlights of the brilliant movie "Network" is when Peter Finch, playing mad as a hatter newsman Howard Beale, exhorts his viewers to vent their rage. He tells them to open their windows...
View ArticleGeorge Bush, please consider this my official job application:
George- if I may call you that? As I expect we'll be working closely with one another soon, it helps to get on familiar terms as quickly as is possible. And I hear you're a friendly sort of fellow....
View ArticleWhere do you buy_ your_ gasoline? Things are much worse than you know.
I work on the fringes of the petroleum industry. I have neither control nor influence... But I do have a window seat- daily- on the inner workings of it all. And it's starting to make me sick. More...
View ArticleClinton, Bush and Responsiblity: A Refresher on Dealing with "Them".
Americans love a lot of things- sports, sex, money... Arguing about sports, sex and money... But above and beyond that, I think, Americans love to place blame. More lurks below:
View ArticleUncle Ken's True Life Tales! Scooterific Edition.
I work in a Fox news listening office, within a Rush Limbaugh adoring state. As a life long Liberal, you can imagine how much fun this is.I spend a great deal of my time in... Debates... With people...
View ArticleThe Infidelity Rag
Well over a decade back, I met a really wonderful woman....unfortunately, I was already involved.There were two very clear choices available.I made same choice as John Edwards- and allegedly- as John...
View ArticleThank You, Sarah Palin and John McCain
I like to think of myself as the sort of person who knows- from his own experiences- that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, an ideal situation or a perfect human being.Nothing wrong with a...
View ArticleThe Dialogue
When I was in High School, I read of a study indicating that racism usually shriveled up with proximity. When someone had direct contact with someone from another race. The regular exposure, where each...
View ArticleA new president, a new chance.
I think all of us- left, right and center within the political spectrum- can agree:There's a lot of work to be done in this country. Things, as they are, are not as they could be for many of us....
View ArticleDear conspiracy theorists, fringe dwellers and assorted extremists.
The government is not coming after your guns. The country has not secretly been divided into five zones- awaiting the United Nations take over- despite what you may have deciphered from highway sign...
View ArticleThe Call of Cthulhu
Someone asked me about the Cthulhu Fish- in the same place you would find a Christian fish or Darwin fish on the back of my car.The nice lady mis pronounced it and wondered if it was some...
View ArticleRIP Senator Kennedy. I loved you all my life.
We never met, but I knew so much about him- for good and ill- that I felt close to him. Felt, when I saw him in action, as if he represented me, stood up for me, cared about me and mine. Lots of better...
View ArticleIn Defense of Sarah Palin*
*Sort of.A lot of people I know to get Sarah Palin. They look at her, and they see the artifice. They hear the misshapen sentences and note the exaggerations and outright lies in which she is caught...
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