Monthly Archives: February 2009

It’s a kind of Real Time train crash that you don’t want to watch, but can’t help but look: rubberneckers yachting by the Titanic, we. But a strange schadenfreudey spectacle, nevertheless. Continue reading →

I bought this exact issue in 1969 Full disclosure: my first job was delivering the Denver Post — back when the great Patrick Oliphant was their political cartoonist — in Laramie, Wyoming, where the two Denver dailies — the Post … Continue reading →

The truth will never set these people free, although it may well end up incarcerating them.

I, on the other hand, am fascinated by the world that CPAC presented, and more than a little surprised at what a low-rent, cheeseball production the big “Sam Adams Alliance” turned out to be — even though they obviously spent a lot of cash on this rollout. Continue reading →

Hell, they may LOOK Black, or “colored” (as in “COLORED ONLY” of the Jim Crow days) but if you shut your eyes, they sound like White Southern Cracker RepubliKlanners. EXACTLY like that, in fact. Try it. Continue reading →

It seems that the only time that Republicans are in favor of “fiscal prudence” is when Democrats control the government. Where was all this highfalutin’ rhetoric from 2000-2009? Curiouser and curiouser. (OK: not really.) Courage.

Frankly, it was an embarrassment.  The Kindle II may well represent an important advance beyond killing trees for our literary needs. It has adjustable font sizes, and there are apocryphal tales that older readers  love them because pages are easier … Continue reading →

Now, ask yourself, if people are willing to build detention camps and tell businesses to use “deadly force” when martial law is declared, would THOSE people hesitate for one nanosecond in unleashing deadly killer robots? Battle tested and field certified killer death robots? Continue reading →

. . Better not to know what it means. But by all means, take precautions against fleas, ticks and bedbugs. It may be a rough spring. Courage.

A friend of mine from the early Hollywood days is being interviewed tonight for her book, My Mother’s House. She’s on something called “Author’s WebTV” and is testing the waters of this brave new world. I was talking with another … Continue reading →

I sometimes wonder if people have actually lived before they shoot off their big mouths about living. Case in point: this afternoon, smart movie critic monkeys and Hollywood Muckymuck Insiders and NPR radio hosts confabulated a festival of assininity (or, … Continue reading →

But that’s not my point. My point is this: they’re doing exactly the same switch they did between Bush the Smarter and Clinton. And it’s mostly the same players. Continue reading →