Duck! and Gather

OK. So I couldn’t summon the motivation to watch the whole 10 minutes of it either. But just skip forward to the last minute or so and you’ll get the flavor.
I found this fellow starting with a Google search for James von Brunn, and following the links. Mr. von Brunn has [...]

In my last posting, I noted that in his lecture last night, Rick Santorum failed to once mention the “elephant in the room” of his talk. Santorum’s talk focused on the threat of radical Islamic fanatics getting hold of nuclear bombs and setting them off in our cities. The elephant in the room of his [...]

Went to a lecture tonight given by Rick Santorum at Stanford. My mother-in-law invited me. So I said: “Why not?”
Last I heard about Santorum was during those days when the Christian fundamentalists we’re pushing for a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. I remember Santorum being quoted comparing gay sex with bestiality in his arguments [...]

Music = emotional communication. Music = poetry.  Poetry = allegory. A song literally about banal personal events related to a California wildfire. And at the same time, a broader allegory for the coming days.

The Blagojevich corruption case is a gift that just keeps on giving when it comes to food for thought. Here’s my next one:
Obama is Teflon Man
At the close of 2008 in America, teflon power is more valuable than the power to be invisible, bend steel bars by hand, read minds, run faster than [...]

Friends have asked me over the past month what I thought about Obama appointing all of these old Clinton-type people to his cabinet. Didn’t this mean he was reneging on his promise of “change”?
“No”, I would answer. The similarity between Obama and Bill Clinton is that they are both highly intelligent. The difference is that [...]

In a sign of glorious things to come from Mr. Obama, the most interesting item to come out of that corruption case involving the Illinois governor is the governor’s wiretapped comment about Obama:
“they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation”
That governor was referring to what the Obama camp was willing to give to the [...]

The following is a reprise of a thought I weaved into a blog post a couple of months ago. That thought is the following: “Barack Obama and Sarah Palin” is a Jeopardy clue. What is the question?
Here’s what I think the question will be: “Who are the two people credited by history with ending the [...]

A scant two years ago today, Red still owned the grand trifecta of American politics, i.e. the Presidency, the House, and the Senate. Two years ago today, many leading voices among the Red still openly voiced their dreams of an endless sea of Red as the future of this nation.
But tomorrow, this nation will instead [...]