Monthly Archives: September 2011

The point isn’t skin color, or religion or economic status. The issue is exclusion, and when you’re as ham-handedly race-obsessed as to put up Herman Cain as the token Black for all Republicans to almost entirely White audiences, or Ali Akbar as the Token Black for all (virtually all-White) Tea Partiers, you DO have a racial problem. As Shakespeare wrote: Methinks the Lady doth protest too much. Continue reading →

And various “activist” communities get a bigger voice in your local election than you do, even IF you’re an activist. Money has supplanted popularity as the bottom line of politics. And the quaint notion of “local” vanishes by the day, as the Parties and Players put down their cash on the most “competitive” horse races. Continue reading →

The problem here is not that Andrew Malcolm hates Obama with a purple passion and will pounce on the slightest whiff of anything to do so. That’s his opinion and opinions are, by definition, true to the opiner and as valuable as the wind that carries them. But when the opinion is based on his OPINION of a “fact,” that’s a bridge too far for any reputable news outlet. Continue reading →

What we have in the first sentence is virulent bigotry: “self-important left-wing nitwits” and “liberal MSM” with the connective tissue of “uneducated” and “brainwashed.” Or, uneducated ignorant left-wing nitwits brainwashed by liberal media. Which isn’t merely bigoted, but astonishingly redundant. Continue reading →

Frankly, for the past couple of weeks, there has been nothing NEW to say. All of this kerfuffle, and kerfluffing has been dealt with at length before. So, when one has nothing to say, one is silent, observant, and says nothing. Or, as Lincoln is reputed to have said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” Continue reading →

Fortunately, talking like a Republican and talking like a pirate are more or less the same thing (pirates tend to be more poetic and compassionate). So, we can chronicle who talked like a pirate yesterday with relative ease Continue reading →

To suck from the teat of a society that one does not acknowledge is quite a feat. Even better is to piss on that same society while holding up the noble purpose of “the good of society” as the reason for the pissing. Continue reading →

Is there a financial crisis or isn’t there? For a significant number of American companies, record profits have been piling up. And the stock market, which was bullish, slipped back a few notches, but not so far as the “magical” 10,000. For most Americans, yes. (And, as I noted earlier, we are not merely failing to address the imminent disaster of America’s infrastructure, which means, roads, bridges, dams, solid waste, liquid waste and water treatment, but we are also failing to address the huge displacement of skilled workers caused by the Information revolution.) Continue reading →

This has moved far beyond the pale of partisan politics, or even the schoolyard. It has moved into the realm of the Goths and the Visigoths, and still we cannot articulate how fundamentally WRONG this pettiness, this pettifoggery is. Continue reading →

America isn’t interested in facts or reason: America wants DRAMA! So, here’s some entertainment, rather than any analysis: Continue reading →

A thirty second video. And … The latest version of my annual 9-11 essay (first appeared in 2008), ‘George W. Bush, Agent of al Qaeda’ can be found here (2011). Or here (2010). Continue reading →