Being the Change

g Barack Obama has said from the beginning of this campaign that it is the people who must believe— not just in his ability to bring about change in Washington— but in theirs.  He has couched these exhortations in what he calls the fierce urgency of NOW.  It’s as rousing a call to the responsibilities of citizenship you’re likely to …

Waking up on November 5th

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0&feature=related[/youtube] Will the monkeys wake up to a new “Dawn of Man” on November 5th? Perhaps. Either way, it’s a rough new road ahead; a paradigm shift of change unfolding.  Prepare to do your part. • •

McCain-Palin: Authoritarians

“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …

Us and Them

Some things remain prescient.  Enjoy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZGRtUeYTU8[/youtube] • Us and Them Us and Them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me, and You God only knows it’s not what we would choose. . . to do Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died General sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side …

A Selective Gathering of Thoughts

More than a few police DO NOT CROSS lines are being ignored right now. Giant phalli in the Erotica Museum are acting-out again. A six year old I know is very frustrated with school. “It’s just a waste of my time,” he said to me. “I can’t read; I can’t write; and they won’t let me talk!” I can’t locate …

New LIAR

Evolution? Nope. Sarah believes in Creationism. That means she believes that Noah had a little fruit fly cage aboard the ark, where he kept a pair of fruit flies, right next to millions of other little cages with pairs of insects in them. But. Sarah is clearly jealous of the little critters. They’ve been to Paris; she hasn’t.

Commander in Chief Palin??

So this is how it’s gonna be. President McCain has said that Palin is qualified, and his way of “assuring the nation” is to let Vice -President Palin run the Joint Chiefs Staff.  The first meeting got off to a volatile start when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates tried in vain to explain to Vice-President Palin why it is innapropriate …