A Conversation About Morality Scene: A classroom at Brooklyn College Time: 4:00 p.m., May 24, 1989 Characters: An old man. Myself. Note: This is fiction. “As soon as a person becomes aware of the objects around him, he considers them in relation to himself, and rightly so, because his whole fate depends on whether they please or displease…
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Whee! This isn’t just a win for the Democrats. But let’s crow just a little bit. Democrats haven’t had anyone representing this area of New York since Lincoln was President. So, in that sense, Fox News and its acolytes should be pissing in their pants rather than passing the pizza and Pepsi. All they can…
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Okay, I don’t live in the 23rd Congressional District of New York, but I do live just a few streets outside of it. That puts me closer to it than the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, who lives in Lake Placid, 8 miles away. Oh, but his campaign headquarters are 400 feet inside the 23rd,…
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Hello, my fellow Alaskans, who really — well, those liberals there, they’d have you — and those taxes, whooo-hoo, what makes us Americans? Not on my watch, and that’s why I — my refrigerator, we call it a fridge, like most American families, and that is where the goodness in this nation is — we…
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How does one make more than one WordPress blog on the same website, if it’s installed remotely?
The question I’d like answered is this: Why is a minor illness like this, which has so far killed 1/32000th of what the standard flu kills annually, gotten so much attention?
I have to get this off my chest: I don’t give a fat rat’s ass how many times Abu Boo-hoo or Khalid Shit Moo-moo got water boarded, had sleep deprivation, or were forced to watch re-runs of Gilligan’s Island. Left to me, I could see putting hot reeds under their fingernails. Sewing scotch bonnet peppers…
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CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Committee met last week (and no, I don’t care to find out where and precisely when, but it was in February 2009 if you’re curious.)Â Every Republican who wants his name in the paper was there (oh, and I am deliberately being non-inclusive in my choice of pronoun here,…
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Well. It seems the world is once again learning the true nature of Capitalism: it’s boom and bust, over and over. The good thing about it is that we live under a generally comfortable but totally misunderstood version of freedom. The bad thing is that when the economy busts, we gain a clearer conception of…
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The End of Bipartisanship: it’s the headline all over the world, describing the curious absence of Republican votes in the House for the stimulus bill. Well, to hell with them. The whole GOP strategy revolves around defeating every one of Obama’s efforts. It is only this that can ensure that the GOP gets enough House members in…
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