Due to enhanced vagal tone, I sometimes require readings of contrarian literature to bring up my resting heart rate to a comfortable 180 BPM. Camille Paglia provided me with a much-needed cardiac stimulus package when she, ridiculously, chose to protest the treatment of poor lil Sarah Palin.
Given that Obama had served on a Chicago board [...]
Today, from Philadelphia, we received the following moving tribute to a tall man in a suit.
There is admiration here, for one of the tall man’s works of fiction, the one involving Jeff Goldblum. There is ambivalence, no let’s call it disdain, for the tall man’s other work of fiction, climate change denial.
Through it all, Michael [...]
This is the climax of a long and successful Republican convention. I’m happy to see it end. I missed it up until the Lindsey Graham speech. I turned my television on earlier, saw Bill Frist, and shut it off. Bill Frist is, ostensibly, a physician. First, do no harm? Bill Frist was able to determine [...]
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I’m pretty tired of this. I already know what they’re going to say.
I’ve been telling people for years that the Republican party is the party of Hate, Greed, and Fear. Tonight is the night I was proven correct by the choice of speakers, but I have to admit that my order was incorrect. It is, [...]
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