HISTORY CHANNEL EXECUTIVEGreat series on The History Channel this month: America; The Story of US. I have been watching these documentaries since I was six; especially those wonderful hours about WWII. The hour on WWII in this series...
EQUITY DURING WAR TIME IN AMERICAI received this email from one of my favorite Congressmen; like Bernie Sanders Representative Grayson reaches out beyond his constituency. I just love this guy: On May 30, 2010, at 10:06 a.m, the direct...
BARBARA BUSH'S MOMWhat I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were...
THE FIRST TEABAGGERI was thinking about the Hippy Dippy Weatherman. He would describe in great geographical detail some horrendous weather front about to deliver thunderous devastation to the relevant area where his fictional audience resides. Then he would...
ONE OF THE GUYS WHO DID ITI came across a manuscript of incredible importance. At last we might know the truth. Curiously, there was some legal document enclosed in the manuscript. AFFIDAVIT STATE OF CONFUSION) ...
You know, I have discovered that there are not that many people alive who have taken the time to see West Side Story. I really am old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2kThis Vaughn Ward proves as much and reminds me of an old...
SATAN I yam what I yam God (Genesis) I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam. Popeye (Cartoon Network) We are all just poor players who strut and...
A demon satiating his lust in a 13th century manuscript. Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its...
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia, the Earth Mother, the ever-sure foundations of all... And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every...
THE DOGON K-PAX is one of my favorite films. One day this rather disheveled but amiable man (who looks an awful lot like Kevin Spacey) shows up out of nowhere at JFK International. The alien with no papers or...
La Vérité ("Truth") by Jules Joseph LefebvreBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Mathew 7:15 Once upon a time, the Vice-President of the United States met with over...
THANATOS And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all...
Taoism Journalist Bill Moyers retires from PBS and his weekly show, the Bill Moyers Journal, on Friday. In honor of the public broadcasting legend, Fresh Air is rebroadcasting segments from several...
This is the worst trip I've ever been on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY The path of the wicked enter not, walk not on the way of evil men; Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it and pass on. -- Proverbs...
: THE TRIAL, By Franz Kafka Housing the approximately 500,000 people in jail awaiting trial who can't afford bail costs $9 billion a year.[47] Most jail inmates are petty, nonviolent offenders. Twenty years ago most nonviolent defendants...
Brat Hume probably said it best when he noted his position vis-a-vis profiling: "Some people are going to have to endure inconvenience as opposed to everybody." It is redundant but let us take a look at similar views concerning...
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. --A....
THE WARSAW ROUND-UPLinda Greenhouse seems to be a little upset over recent legislation that has been signed, sealed and delivered by the Arizona Governor recently: And in case the phrase "lawful contact" makes it appear as if the police...
ULYSSES S. GRANT WRITING HIS MEMOIRSThe very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Pudd'n Head WilsonSince leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency," Crown...
e By Nikolaos Gysis (1892) I have been thinking about values lately. When I was in grammar school, I recall a teacher who must have had a bug up his arse about some political matter. God only knows what...
