When the Democrats Failed to Attend the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Be it right or left, we are living in a delusional society. Both groups harbor a near religious belief in the possibility of quick fixes to long term problems. This delusional act of piety may be a result of mass media and fifty years of programming where our celluloid heroes solve even in the greatest [...]
Close Encounters With the Tea Party of Beverly Hills
You don’t often think of the City of Beverly Hills and the Tea Party in one sentence. But, nevertheless, there they were in some odd form of cosmic convergence, demonstrating to the more ardent supporters and the merely curious that populist outrage can emanate from one of the more expensive zip codes in the United [...]
The Logical Return to Centrist America
Whether we like it or not, we are generally a centrist nation. We may veer to the left or the right for awhile, but ultimately we end up back somewhere in the middle. True, it may be the the vocal extremes who though bombast and loony sound bites get all the news coverage. But at [...]
The Proposed Tax Cut Rancor and the Riddle of the Day
I am a little confused here…while Republicans and Democrats battle back and forth as to whether to retain the tax cuts, discontinue the tax cuts entirely, or modify the tax cuts in some sliding scale that still hasn’t been settled upon, I am stuck with one simple question…. If keeping the tax cuts will encourage [...]
The People We Love to Hate
Not long ago, on one of the book blog sites, some guy went out of his way to tell me how indifferent he was to my work. I responded once and asked him if he was so indifferent than why did he go out of his way to tell me. I thought if he had [...]