As we gather round our turkeys—and have a chuckle at the video of Sarah Palin blathering her nonsense oblivious to a farmhand gruesomely dispatching turkeys in the background—those of us…
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Listening to the heads of the major American automobile companies whine before Congress today was enough to make me puke. Can you believe this—they each flew to Washington to beg…
An old friend wrote to me about the election of Barack Obama to the presidency wondering what I was going to “rant about” in these pages now that George W.…
Some random thoughts on a remarkable occurance There a milestone moments in our lives, events which tell us that something has changed. Barack Obama ran his campaign on change, but most of…
I have always had an odd fascination with the Japanese. The story goes in my family that when I was a baby I looked very “Asian.” My mother said that…
No introduction of Sen. John McCain, it seems, comes un-preambled without the obligatory benediction of his “heroic service” in Vietnam. Should there be an exception we may be assured that…
I got out my DVD of Meet John Doe after watching the “debate” between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. In the 1941 Frank Capra film a cynical newspaper reporter (Barbara Stanwyck) creates…
“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.” [from John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 There are a lot of reasons not to…
Nothing owes its preciousness to rarity more than Truth.* When I watched Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, endorsing Barak Obama at the Democratic National…
Ever wonder where does all that wealth goes when the hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions just “go away”? Well the big boys at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bothers and…