So, here we are – November 9th. The election is over and the country is not united, in fact it is split down the middle, as the results of the vote tallys indicate – Clinton winning the popular vote and Trump, the electoral vote. I have some random thoughts about the outcome and this is […]
Everyone that grew up with Charles Schulz’ Peanuts cartoon strip and the animated specials, recognizes someone like Charlie Brown, the earnest, good hearted, self conscious and regretfully easily duped, little fellow that really wants to believe. He’s also mildly neurotic and tortured by insecurity and doubts. Many of us even see a bit of ourselves […]
My impressions of the last GOP debate of 2015, will be from the 35,000 foot level and I’ll avoid getting too far in the weeds. This is appropriate because one of the CNN analysts asked, “Did we hear substantive plans?” and the answer is that we did not. What we did hear, with some […]
I’ve just been informed by a trusted source, that a closed door meeting was held yesterday at an undisclosed location just outside the Nation’s Capital among notable Democrats and Progressives. Apparently, according to this report, the agenda had to do with developing a standard code of conduct for Americans that they feel will reduce the […]
Living in the Tarnished State is a gift that just keeps giving. A most amazing, but not terribly surprising event was reported in varying degrees of detail over the last 24 hours, about a California Democrat State Senator – a major gun-control advocate. The Los Angeles Times summarizes the headline: State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San […]
I ran across a story about a young woman (at least she claims to be and bears the marginal outward appearance thereof), that is a senior, scheduled to graduate from Haaaavaaad (Harvard) U this year. It was at once, fall out of the tree funny – because this chicky poo is serious as a breast […]
You’ll forgive me if I just take a break from the ordinary format of buttressing my perspectives with documentation, quotes and data points and just vent. Perhaps I should do so more often and likely I will, because progressives don’t know what to do with the truth when they see it and you rely on […]
By now most every political junkie on either side of the spectrum, has digested the Duck Dynasty fiasco and the Melissa Harris-Perry debacle, oh, and certainly let’s not leave out Martin Bashir and Alec Baldwin. Because of that, I’m not going to discuss the merits of those incidents specifically, but to look at them […]
I realize that I’m going to establish for myself, a reputation as an iconoclast and a ‘Grinch that stole Thanksgiving’ – or at the very least the ‘Grinch that defended the theft of Thanksgiving’. I would be happy to settle for non-conformist and independent thinker, but let the critics do their worst. It has come to my […]
When I have an informal discussion with folks about what the future looks like, particularly with respect to 2016, inevitably the topic of Hillary Clinton comes up. What my friends are especially wondering and concerned about is “do you think Hillary Clinton will win the White House?” It is a daunting proposition. Even my 90 […]
November 9, 2016
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