Is it just me or are ALL the stories on the “Liberal Media” missing one of the main points of the story of last night’s deal approving a raise to the budget ceiling? All the stories that I have heard and read talk about how “the President won” or how the Congress averted a fiscal catastrophe by passing a deal that raises the debt ceiling; all of them seem to hold the Congress as a blameless bystander in the whole sordid affair.
30 October 2015
19 October 2015
Panem et Circenses
“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81
18 October 2015
Idiotocracy
Why does the political right in the US insist on running wholly unqualified candidates!?
09 October 2015
That Ain’t Right
"That Ain't Right"
by
Thomas "Fats" Waller
"Baby, baby; What is the matter with you?
Ah! Baby, baby; What is the matter with you?
You got the world in a jug
And you've got nothin' to do"
05 October 2015
01 October 2015
Greetings From Frost Lake
Going, Going, Gone!
Don Bergquist - October 01, 2015 - Lakewood, Colorado, USA
01 September 2015
16 August 2015
Real or Reality Show?
trumpery
[truhm-puh-ree]
noun, plural: trumperies.1. something without use or value; rubbish; trash; worthless stuff.
2. nonsense; twaddle: "His usual conversation is pure trumpery."
3. Archaic. worthless finery.
adjective,4. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.
Etymology
Late Middle English/Middle French1425-1475; late Middle English trompery deceit < Middle French tromperie, equivalent to tromp (er) to deceive + -erie -ery
Source: Dictonary.com
15 August 2015
01 August 2015
01 July 2015
26 May 2015
18 May 2015
Travel, Time, and Technology
As I sit writing this entry, in the First Class Cabin of a
United flight from Denver to Newark, I am left to wonder at the way the world
has changed. I’ve been reading a novel set in some indeterminate period of the
past (train travel is still the big and hot thing in this book) and I marvel at
the way the world has changed in the past half century.
11 May 2015
You Are What You Read
In an attempt to better understand the Neo-Conservative mind, I decided to read the tome that they all seem to hold so dear: “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. I am only about a third of the way through it, but can say that it is an interesting view in to the psyche of anyone who holds this book dear.
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