As President Obama turns 50 today, leaders in Congress have all of two weeks to choose the twelve legislators (from within their divisive political parties) who will become members of The Super Committee that will recommend further deficit and debt reduction ideas by November. The sanctified twelve will be made up of three House Democrats, three…
Where TITANIC (1997) showed us the great divide between social classes in allegedly egalitarian societies, with its “message” successfully embedded in a breathless love story between the haves and the have-nots, Canadian film-director James Cameron now picks up where Al Gore left off in AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (2006). Although Cameron’s AVATAR can be viewed and…
According to the morning paper, Kansas Republican State. Rep. Bill Otto ranted for nearly three minutes against President Obama at a recent legislative meeting, then later posted a YouTube video of himself singing an anti-Obama “Redneck Rap” while wearing a hat that said, “OPOSSUM, the other dark meat.” At the end of his song, Otto points to his hat and says again,…
President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day that NASA blows up the moon. It’s a peaceful way of saying, “Today the Moon, Tomorrow Kabul!” Everyone knows we can do it, nobly, so there is no need to send in more troops to Afghanistan. Or is this just wishful thinking? Sheer lunacy? “Shine on…Shine…