Post Election Thoughts
Well, the elections are almost a week behind us, and the country seems to have recovered from its political madness so it’s time for our new group of politicians, which actually looks a lot like our old group, to settle
ON TAIBBI’S RANT
Read a brilliant column by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone yesterday in which he savagely attacks the whole election process for the time wasted, the money spent and the unending hype produced. He goes on to advocate that the whole
Krugman’s Lament
Paul Krugman, in Friday’s New York Times, brings up a point that I have railed about many times in this much less significant space. He comes at it from a different angle but it’s really the same rant. We
On Taibbi’s Rant
Read a brilliant column by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone yesterday in which he savagely attacks the whole election process for the time wasted, the money spent and the unending hype produced. He goes on to advocate that the whole
Bits & Pieces #27
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” That was Mitch McConnell in 2010. That was f*** you America. We don’t care that you have no job. We don’t care that you
Oil: An American Tragedy
Oil, which over the course of many centuries, in many forms, has been highly beneficial to the human race, has finally come full circle, and is now the curse of the planet. This negative transformation has, of course, to do
The Dolan Dilemma
I got a big laugh today when my furious wife forwarded this piece of trash to me, demanding that I reply to Cardinal Timothy Dolan with one of “Your” letters. Normally I would ignore this kind of stupidity from the
The VP Debate
There has been a lot said by the clown princes and princesses of Sunday morning TV about the antics of Joe Biden during the VP debate. The main complaint seems to be that Biden lowered the tone of the debates
Bits & Pieces #26
Did you know that 352 members of congress have left office since 1998? Did you know that 278 of them, 79%, have become lobbyists? That’s why nothing works for anyone but the rich. *** The seeming ease with which three
Not Presidential Material
The most important thing that Bill Clinton did in his speech at the convention was to remind voters, why they had elected Barak Obama. That is the key to any success that Obama will have in this election and just