Help me to see what’s smart about this: faced with extreme challenges, avoid pulling together, just get rid of all leaders and take a chance on any worm-in-the-apple that runs for office. Gosh, why didn’t we think of that before? Well, because it’s stupid, for one thing, a page from the old “throw-everything-up-in-the-air-and-let-God- sort-it-out” school […]
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Being Careful What They Wish For
August 3, 2010What Is WRONG With These People?
July 22, 2010These days are nothing short of temporary social insanity. Such is human nature when stress is virtually intolerable and the body politic is hurting. I say “temporary” because we can only hope and pray that it is. At such times, certain behaviors are excusable to a degree but there is a difference when inmates attempt […]
Tea and No Sympathy
April 20, 2010Freud did not say we are just a herd animal. He said we are one with a leader. And therein is the solvent of the celebrated and so-called Tea Party, running on angry fumes whilst hoping and praying for a figurehead. Sarah Palin’s not it, since she’ll take anybody’s money in exchange for a whoopee-speech. […]
The Truth About Sarah
April 17, 2010That Palin gal’s a piece of work. She was already on the ropes as guv of the Frozen State and would’ve quit anyway after her most recent term–now she’s the toast of the (tea) party: here, there and everywhere, speakin’, talkin’, cheerin’, signin’ books and stuffin’ dough in her bloomers. She’s “a brand plucked from […]
Here Come Da Judge(ment)
March 25, 2010We moderns despise the notion of judgment. To our minds, no one is Up There watching and there are no paybacks. But something there is that likes to imagine both ultimate comeuppance and just reward–and more than just “bad” and “good” cholesterol. That the foregoing requires a Mr. (or Ms.) Big (as the case may […]
See, I Told You So
March 23, 2010Busting Scott Brown’s Chops Forgive me for borrowing the title of a Rush Limbaugh book (“See, I Told You So,” but for years he’s been snitching pages from the life and career of Father James Coughlin, who savaged FDR while people cheered, so let’s call it even. Note however that FDR is now a giant […]
CNN Is Drinking the Tea
March 5, 2010Pygmies casting such long shadows is a sign of how late in the day it has become. CNN is drinking the “Tea,” a libation as lethal as Jim Jones’ cool-aid in Jonestown, and, in its infinite tolerance, purveying this deadly potion to the public. As U.S. politics boil to extreme temperatures, CNN’s apparent pull-back from […]
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