BLOWING SMOKE….YOU KNOW WHERE (marketing con-craft….developed into an art form) It never ceases to amaze me at the devious means marketing types dream up ways to entice us to do their bidding, and fall for their ploys hook, line, and
Vol.VI – Issue No. 24 – Mar 2011 KEEPING THEIR EYES ON THE 2012 ELECTION SPARROW (instead of taking care of the people’s business) Our – honorables – in Congress are still squabbling over how to make a budget deal for
Vol. VI – Issue No. 23 – Mar 2011 OH, LIBYA, OH LIBYA! (will you let Gaddafi prevail over your?) The problem with murderous nut-case dictators like Gaddafi is when they don’t realize they may be winning the fights….but they’re
Vol.VI – Issue No. 22 – Mar 2011 LIVING ON THE RING OF FIRE IS ROUGH (and the neighboring ocean is rougher still) Unlike the Atlantic’s deserved reputation for wildly raging unexpected tantrums, the Pacific generally deserves its name, being
Vol.VI – Issue No. 21 – Mar 2011 CHANCE ENCOUNTERS (of the pleasant kind) Yesterday, at a writers and authors’ conference, I met a veterinarian lady (of a certain age which, from my perspective, made her even more interesting than
Vol. VI – Issue No. 20 – Mar 2011 THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH (gaming the system to engage in hate-speech with impunity) The Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, KS, is neither “Baptist” nor “church”, and, based on the outrageous
BACK IN THE DAY (when a former movie star faced down a flaky barbarian) Presidents have different styles of handling crisis situations. Some, like our President today, prefer to use fine sounding word pictures (these don’t do much, but politically
THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS OF DELUSIONS (in an imaginary interview with a desert dictator) Most dictators operate through a looking glass of delusions. Some might just call it megalomania. No matter, either way, they delude themselves that they are infallible
STATE LEGISLATORS (going AWOL and failing in their duty) Democrat state legislators in Wisconsin and Indiana have deliberately disappeared themselves so as to avoid having to vote on a proposed bill they do not approve of. In a childish exercise
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS (that’s the long and short of it) The ongoing events throughout the Middle East, and particularly now in Libya, clearly shows the ultimate fate of any oppressive tyrannical regime. Like Humpty Dumpty, sooner or later, it has