It is once again the Halloween season, and scary images are beginning to appear everywhere. Ghouls and ghosts and vampires abound in print, on the tube, and in movies. I have no idea why anyone would think that Americans need a good scare. We already have the most frightening entities in the long and scary history of our country. We … Continue reading
Writing on consecutive days about getting information from the new media and the Ron Paul campaign, a curmudgeon cannot help but reflect on how those things go together. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the (I think) questionable polling techniques of the Paul campaign, you have to admit that their grip on the Web as an instrument of … Continue reading
You have to wonder about Ron Paul’s ethics. He is apparently perfectly all right with letting his acolytes run rigged poll after rigged poll to make him look good, and that is not exactly pristinely honest. It is transparently obvious that his supporters are putting up polls on Websites, then emailing the Ron Paul Fan Club so they can all … Continue reading
I am waiting, and watching, with almost unbounded curiosity, to see if the rich white people of Southern California are treated as badly as the poor black people of New Orleans in their time of crisis. We can even have the battle of the football stadiums, since the field where the San Diego Chargers play football has been opened up … Continue reading
Why do conservatives hate Nancy Pelosi? I asked myself that question and had no trouble at all in coming up with an answer. She is a self-assured, outspoken, powerful woman who has great success playing a man’s game. Therefore, she is threatening to conservatives in ways that they cannot even begin to comprehend. It is exactly the same reason that … Continue reading
America is suffering from an overdose of magic, and much of the world is following along. It will surprise no one if I say that I have a theory about that. My theory is: Americans are becoming escapists in droves because there are so many things about reality that they cannot deal with. It is easier to slip away into … Continue reading
The past often haunts both people and countries. Turkey’s past is haunting them now, that sad past with Armenia, in which Turkey did not act ethically. If they were trying to come to grips with their own past, it might be a good thing. That is often a healthy exercise. However, in this case, they are being prodded by the … Continue reading
Why are so many Americans in jail? That is a very simple-sounding question yet it seemingly does not have a correct answer, which is to say that there are a great many answers but one cannot tell which among them are correct. One fact does stand out: if you are an American, you are much more likely to be in … Continue reading
I do not know why this one is so hard for people to understand. At the heart of the matter is the concept of “War for Profit,” which is an activity that the Unites States has become fairly good at, especially under Bush family rule. Under a militant entrepreneur of one sort or another, a group of ex-military people are … Continue reading
I do not know where it came from originally, though I tried to find out, but I have discovered the discovery if Bushcronium! I learned of these momentous events because I am a regular reader of The West Virginia Blogger and Bucky was on the ball again. This is the gist of the science news of the day: A major research … Continue reading