In Defense of the American Horror Movie: Remain Obese or Die
Mayor Bloomberg is proposing to ban sales of sugar-sweetened beverages over 16 ounces in New York City. Fountain and bottled beverages over 16 ounces...
The NRA Was Telling the Truth, The New York Times Reports
It is not the guns that kill us it is their bullets. Sorry, that is not what The New York Times reports. It is...
WikiLeaks Cannot Hurt the US Government, Judge Kollar-Kotelly Decided
I used to applaud the decisions of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court in Washington, especially the one describing the Bush...
Why Run for President When You Cannot Rise Above a Lackey?
I thought the president knew that poeple like me- many much younger and better looking- elected him. Alas, he feels indentured not to us...
The Motorcycle Taxis — Why Hasn’t New York City Adopted Them Yet?
Perhaps even more intriguingly is why hasn't San Francisco introduced the motorcycle taxis yet? The motorcycle taxi's main attraction is that you can sit...
All Four Legs of the American Manufacturing Stool Endorse Obama
There are only four important export industries left in the U.S.: pharmaceuticals, entertainment, aeronautics, and a few computers. Headed by the pharmaceutical industry, they...
How Memorial Day Has Become the Day of the Jobless
Day in and day out, media of all types deliver the same message: war is a global business the United States dominates.
This Memorial Day...
Detainees at Afghanistan’s largest U.S.-built prison chose to stay in and watch Mad Men...
The U.S. spent $60 million to construct a state of the art prison able to house 2000 Afghani detainees. This is the U.S. Army’s...
Our Political Conversation
It is a bad time for political conversation if all that the brightest commentators can do is point out trivial non sequiturs. Or, probably...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question “Does America need an Arab Spring?” True to himself,...
Mitt Romney, Regular Guy: And Ready to Prove It
With Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the battle for undecided voters with Barack Obama has begun, and nothing is more important...
Conceding Defeat
The Democrats have no leadership role anymore in American politics. Like much hyped-up bands marketed to seem independent, think The Monkeys or, surprise, surprise,...
Government Relaxes Rules on Reading Emails and other Tweets
Reading about the government relaxation of the rules on the use of private information, I sighed and wondered how much more relaxation can they...
Revelations
This week’s revelations may not be biblical. Nevertheless, they are entertaining.
Twelve high school girls in upstate New York resolved to engage in neurotic behavior in...
