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The Space Cadet

It was a week before my sixth birthday. That Wednesday, I sat in my classroom (my school had a light through-summer schedule) with my classmates and watched as we always did in hushed silence as the black and white closed-circuit broadcast of the Apo…

The Space Cadet

It was a week before my sixth birthday. That Wednesday, I sat in my classroom (my school had a light through-summer schedule) with my classmates and watched as we always did in hushed silence as the black and white closed-circuit broadcast of the Apo…

…Where The Good Lord Split You

Malaria. Mumps. Mauling By A Bear. All Things We Will Miss More Than You.When the “end” came for Senator Joe Lieberman (I-“only-give-a-fuck-about-me”—CT), it was hoped for by many here on the left that there would be more to it than what we g…

…Where The Good Lord Split You

Malaria. Mumps. Mauling By A Bear. All Things We Will Miss More Than You.When the “end” came for Senator Joe Lieberman (I-“only-give-a-fuck-about-me”—CT), it was hoped for by many here on the left that there would be more to it than what we g…

The Dukes Of Moral Hazard

“Jes’ Some Good Ol’ Boys (And Girls), Never Meanin’ No Harm…” Right!No. I’m not dead. In fact, I’m quite well actually…but I’ve been so schedule-addled (working from afternoons into nights now) and damned busy for what seems like forever …

The Dukes Of Moral Hazard

“Jes’ Some Good Ol’ Boys (And Girls), Never Meanin’ No Harm…” Right!No. I’m not dead. In fact, I’m quite well actually…but I’ve been so schedule-addled (working from afternoons into nights now) and damned busy for what seems like forever …

Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave…

(Photo From Associated Press)“When the Caribbean catch a cold, Haiti…she catch the bubonic plague.”—Unidentified West Indian Man on the 4 Train From Brooklyn, Jan. 14th, 2010I live in one of the western hemisphere’s largest West Indian communit…

Sacked!

“Awwwww folks, you just hate to see that kind of thing happen…not!I believe…yes, I’m almost certain that it was a British poet of some renown from the latter 20th century who famously and through wasp-stung lips howled “You Can’t Always Get Wh…

We Are Not Alone…

A Picture With A Thousand Words On It…Is Worth Ten Thousand WordsIn a previous post, I took the media to task for its appalling myopia about the full-throated roar of the crazies railing against President Obama and why said crazies are doing so. I s…

“You Make The Call”

“There’s a thin li-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-innnnneee…”As a kid, I remember these cool, old IBM-sponsored commercials that ran during NFL football games, showing a slo-mo replay of a controversial moment in a game—some borderline-ish play that could be…