A LITTLE BIT OF HALLOWEEN VIDEO MISCHIEF (…and why not…that’s why they came up with this folk festival, right?) Thinking back about the pranks and other tomfoolery we kids were allowed to indulge in for Halloween, where the name of
HURRICANE SANDY (…upstaging the hot air and rhetoric of political windbags) Late season hurricanes, like Sandy, are almost always either very destructive…or just a mild annoyance for a few days. Sandy, however, appears poised to become a very destructive one,
THE GAMES OF SUMMER (…lingering on into the leaves of Fall) Ah, baseball! This year’s season of it has just ended with the San Francisco Giants making a clean sweep to add another World Series notch to their belts, just
A THIRD AND FINAL SALES PITCH SHOW (…yo’…dudes…what happened to that –Foreign Policy – special?) Last night’s final debate between President Obama and Governor Romney, hyped-up in advance by a Greek chorus of pundits of one kind or another…to be
PROMISES…PROMISES…PROMISES (…by two political fighting cocks duking it out on a red carpet arena) Last night’s second debate round between President Obama and Governor Romney had all the intensity and feel of two political fighting cocks duking it out on
WOOFINGS OF MISREPRESENTATION VERSUS YAPPINGS OF MALARKEY (between an old political pit-bull and a young very nimble political attack Chihuahua) Yesterday’s Vice Presidential debate was about the only show in broadcast television’s current wasteland of inanities worth watching. Although skeptical
THE CONTINUING DEFAMATION OF ISLAM (…with rabid perverted zealotry) If anyone in the world of Islam had any remaining illusions that the Taliban, and all of its adherents anywhere, is simply a – Puritan – form of their faith, the
GATHERING STORM CLOUDS OVER CHINA (…as its economy deflates from its zippydee-doo-dah skateboard mode) The gathering storm clouds over China from current economic, political, and social turmoil is causing renewed – China Syndrome – concerns in the rest of the
LAKE WOEBEGONE REDUX (…where everyone is…above average) The first of a series of debates this past Wednesday, between President Obama and Governor Romney, reminded us of Garrison Kieler’s old – Lake Woebegone – radio show, and its catch phrase…where everyone
PARSING THE ELECTORATE BY TOO MUCH PLURIBUS NOT ENOUGH UNUM (so…who the hell are we…and whatever happened to just plain 100% American?) Both the Obama and Romney campaigns have gone overboard in their attempts to sway voters their way in