Rapturous Bachmann
Go ahead, Michele Bachmann. Break out your “THE END IS NEAR” sign. You know you want to. She came close in a radio interview: Michele Bachmann says the rapture is coming, thanks to President Barack...
View ArticleHow About Rude Week?
Watching the chatter on Facebook about the Tourism Development Authority here and here. And there’s this from the Citizen-Times: ASHEVILLE – In Savannah, Georgia, a policeman has an extra incentive for...
View ArticleFacebook’s aerospace team
Now there’s a phrase to give one pause. This just came in over the transom: MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook says it will begin test flights later this year for a solar-powered drone with a wingspan...
View ArticleNo, it’s not a metaphor. Really.
Comedy writer and playwright David Castro shared some impressions of Thursday’s Republican presidential debate: Some final thoughts on the 10 Guys at Open Mic Nite at the Chuckle Hut in Cleveland: 1....
View ArticleLying to themselves at you
One hears repeatedly that questioning people’s motives is rude. Impolitic. Impolite. Paul Waldman a few years ago posted that motive questioning is toxic because it is akin to calling people liars and...
View ArticleRunning On The Wrong Continent
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View ArticleCampus Crusade for Koch
While some college students are being introduced to Nietzsche, Freud, and organic chemistry, Charles and David Koch want to introduce them to the Kochification Church, bless their hearts. The Koch...
View ArticleThe iCondemn® for Republicans
Donald Trump’s brand of 21st-century McCarthyism rolls on unchecked by a Republican party fearful of taking him on, and giving tacit approval through its silence. When challenged, Trump doubles down,...
View ArticleYour Thanksgiving Turkeys
News reports of the annually banal pardoning of the White House turkey triggered memories of that video where Sarah Palin blathers on about whatever Sarah Palin was blathering on about,...
View ArticleGood Guy With A Gun?
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View ArticleRipe for the fleecing
The New Age movement was in full flower when I arrived in what was then touted as “a New Age Mecca.” It seemed every other person I met was a seeker — seeking ways to monetize their spiritual journey....
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