How Low Can You Go?
This post was originally published at OpenSalon, a beta-test group blogging project of Salon Media.
I’m going to think out loud, if you don’t mind. I’ve been ruminating on something for a while now and I would like to indulge the openness and apparent civility of this forum to throw some very incompletely formed ideas against […]
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
The true origins of celebrating the notion of romantic love on February 14 are not well documented, though the exchange of elaborate, handmade gifts between paramours was well established by the middle of the eighteenth century in England, and began to really take off in the United States once Esther Howland (herself now considered something […]
A Wing And A Prayer
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded to worldwide stock market declines of 5% Monday with a 75 basis-point cut in the Fed Funds rate Tuesday morning. The Fed’s largest single rate cut in 23 years was more notable for its coming just a week before the regularly scheduled meeting of the Fed Board […]
Update on Freedom’s March
It’s been called “the defining struggle of our time” by the rootin’-tootin’est vice president this country has ever had. Faced with criticism over his policies, or doubt concerning progress in the so-called War on Terror, our least-popular president ever invariably fends off nattering nabobs of negativism with one of his own favorite mantras: […]
Study Shows 6 Is 9, After All
On January 15, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience released its second album, Axis / Bold As Love, containing what would become the genre-defining psychedelic rock song, “If 6 Was 9.”
The song was not only a statement of Mr. Hendrix’s compositional innovation and his prowess on the electric guitar, but with it he also […]
Zaftig Female Vocalist Seeks Gig
Have you heard the news ? The tide has turned in Iraq! Fourteen young Americans died there Wednesday, when their Black Hawk helicopter went down in a fireball of molten steel, rotors akimbo — but remember former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s prescient admonishment, and let not “nattering nabobs of negativism” bring you […]
Yeah, That’s The Ticket!
The incomparable minds of the Bush administration announced the latest sure-fire strategy for defusing tensions in the Middle East on Friday: a plan to distribute $20 billion worth of high-tech weaponry among Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
A separate deal for Israel, reportedly worth $30 billion, was […]
Me And Hugo, Down By The Schoolyard
America’s Mayor wants to take on The Bully of Venezuela.
With the Bush administration coming unglued before our very eyes in the face of an increasingly uncooperative congress, a still-deteriorating situation in Iraq, and the ever-diminishing credibility of our Department of Justice under Alberto Gonzales, GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani would have us turn our […]
Fear No Evil
I am tired.
Not because I face another night of fitful sleep, anxious for my job, my seven year-old, and the pain of a strained trapezius — though there is that.
Rather, I am tired of the realization no matter how obvious it becomes, no matter how far into plain view we might drag the […]
The Bright Side Of Life
Prime Minister Tony Blair announced this week nearly one quarter of the British forces deployed in Iraq will be leaving by May, and promised even more would be decommissioned from the war-torn former nation by the end of the year.
The announcement was greeted with speculation that the man whose political career may be […]