Court of Public Opinion: Can v Should
I don’t preach on politics frequently, but I’m at my parents’ house all week and the television here winds up on Fox News a lot of the time. One of the issues of the week has been a plan to build a...
View ArticleBack It Up
When Barack Obama gets some free time from meetings in the West Wing, he likes to dress in fishnet stockings and push-up bras. George Bush averaged 418 days of vacation annually at his ranch while he...
View ArticleNational Essential Radio
I suspect that if we were privy to behind-the-scenes security footage, we’d see images of James O’Keefe as a marionette with Karl Rove’s hand up the back of his shirt. O’Keefe, for those that have been...
View ArticleUnion Delusions
I walked out to get a salad around lunchtime yesterday and something felt out of place. It was several blocks before I realized that the picket line was gone from in front of the Madison Hotel at 15th...
View ArticleGod Bless the Tea Party
With 2 August looming, and The End of the World As We Know It, I’m going to go against several general mores this morning. First, I decided that I was only going to post about London things while I was...
View ArticleFacebook’s Ultimate Conflict Kulture
Something to get off my chest before this coming Tuesday. LivingSocial just advertised to me for the third time in a week an “election night party” where I can let my hair down, presumably alongside...
View ArticleDon’t Make Me Vote. You Wouldn’t Like Me When I Vote.
I stood my two-plus hours and voted this morning: a straight ticket, for the Meh/Whatever Party. Whoever wins this election, the voter mandate they’re going to be able to claim is, “Anything but the...
View ArticleTuesday Redux
I suppose those of us who supported the President’s re-election should probably take the results and run, and I would, but it turns out that I’m not done musing about the election and its aftermath....
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....