Epiphanies

Yes, even insufferable wags can have genuine epiphanies. So when Chris Matthews thinks he has one on the air and shares it with the rest of us, it’s worth examining if for no other reason than to see if it can help us have one, too.

IMA JIS BE STEELE

HONOLULU — Despite deep internal divisions and other problems, Republicans still appear invigorated after devastating national elections that saw them lose control of Congress and then the White House. The reason? An elite Hawaiian vacation/Stategery Session.

The Devil & Marion Gordo Robertson

MARION GORDON ROBERTSON made his way into the world on a cold-assed day in March of 1930. To any casual observer, Gordo has been certifiably insane since 1976, when he predicted the world would end in the fall of 1982…

I Feel Rachel’s Pain

On her show Thursday night, Rachel Madow interviewed Mother Jones correspondent David Corn (two of my favorite people). The tag line describing the clip above, “Lack of an honest opposition lamentable”, while accurately describing the content, doesn’t come close to capturing the depth of the problem they address. Lamentable means “bad, unfortunate.” As I read the numerous socio-political-economic crises facing …

OBAMA SHRUGGED

When you have made evil the means of survival,
do not expect men to remain good.
Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for
the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral.
Do not expect them to produce, when
production is punished and looting rewarded.
Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world?’ •You are.**

Lieberman May Be Laughing…

This really isn’t about Joe. Joe is only the most recent and egregious example and one of many elected creatures from the black lagoon, that especially fetid, artificial pool of accumulated amoral political effluent polluting our political system. Creatures without principles who don’t care who knows it.

BullShit Runner

I’m not a subscriber to BullShit Runner Magazine. It’s too expensive. But I did manage to snag this copy from the unisex restroom at Running Rogue, a new theme running equipment store that just opened at the end of Columbia Center Mall in Kennewick next to the Lids store. I was in Kennewick to sample the Friday night seafood buffet at the Crow’s Nest, detailed here. . .