I finally realized after all this time that the cartoon character Jon Gruber is based on-the Vizzini character in Princess Bride! I also realized this year, that even though “marriage is a dream within a dream” Americans are now wedded to Obamacare! Dealing with the Jon Grubers and Paul Krugmans of the world brings one to…
As we head into the New Year let’s take a moment to not look back… Sentimentality is that taskmaster which keeps us longing for the leeks and garlic of Egypt, the known-knowns of past life, up to and including slavery. Sentimentality is gate keeper to the past, fending off reality to preserve sugar-plum memories. Sentimentality…
Joy to the world! “The Interview” will be released, Let earthlings view this crap, Let every one call it “Freedom”, And Sony and Clooney chime in, And Sony and Clooney chime in, And Sony, and Sony and Clooney chime in. Joy to earth, the “Frost” movie reigns Let LGBTers their…
“I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down.” “It’s horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer,” Rafael Ramos’ son, Jaden, posted on Facebook. Flowers, candles, photos and written messages were placed outside of the station house in Brooklyn of two NYPD officers who…
How do I put this? Like a battered codependent wife who stays with her husband believing that he really does love her in his heart of hearts? Like a College Lit professor who embraces the Literary Critical Theories of Lacan, Derrida and Foucault and who like Foucault, must, in true Marxist fashion, deconstruct each work…
A recent comment dialogue I was involved with on another blog made me realize that many people act and react out of an imagination that is cable TV connected. Their words lacked perspective, moral imagination and a coherent basis for reality. Their words, wildly absurdist, were meant to make a serious point. Sadly this has become normative for online point-counterpoint.…
When I eat at a Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Korean, Nigerian, Caribbean and you-name-it restaurant I am not force fed. I go there to freely eat the food of another culture. But for some ‘intellectual’ elites Multiculturalism is their bread and butter. And they want to force feed you and yours the same because for them-tah,…
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