The incredible shrinking presidency continues in a straight line down from Bubba to W to Barry. Maybe Danny DeVito in 2012? Oh well no point in me belaboring the oft-made point. Lincoln, Buchanan, leaders and latch keepers, setting firebreaks and spraying water or cutting brush and shooting hoops. Fa… Read full post »

Appropriately, the tsunami struck five years ago. Appropriate in the symbolism this time of year- which is always the emotional tsunami for America, I think, anyway. It's almost like final exams/pop quiz- how grateful are you, how giving are you, how resolved are you? How much do you love your family… Read full post »

Paragraphs, capitalization?? I don't have time for the "rules of grammar," now anymore than I did in high school. I hope to embody the spirit of Hunter Thompson having a child with Erica Jong. Or perhaps  just J.Joyce channeled by Bill Bryson.

Still, I paid attention long enough in French class… Read full post »

since I have received not so much as an inquiry as to my generous offer to do columns at the bargain basement price of $400 per column per week, I will have to take my services elsewhere. Plus, I asked salon to change me from aol to gmail and didn't even… Read full post »

Is it the passing of the female baton and nobody noticed? Of course Oprah is not really retiring, just changing directions. VP pick anyone? Well, it's Thanksgiving. I'm thankful to have discovered an excellent biography for $1 at the used bookstore. Capote. The description of NewYork City in the… Read full post »

I was watching the History Channel: JFK : three shots that changed the world. First off, there were more than three, but otherwise it was an impressive effort. How can we expect the CIA to release documents when its taken 46 years for the networks to release coverage taken at the… Read full post »

Watched "State of Play," last night. Scandal in Washington. Do screenwriters really need to still be making this stuff up? Why doesn't Oliver Stone do JFK2; follow all 200 some people who died mysteriously when they got too close to the investigation. Russell Crowe is anything but an American newspap… Read full post »

In January of 2007 my wife and I moved in with my mother-in-law. With the exception of some protracted, temporary absences to Connecticutt, Virginia and Florida, we have been there since, in the in-law apartment in Rhode Island. It could be worse, of course, it could be better. We can watch… Read full post »

Cash for cogitators...forget cash for clunkers. Oops, we have already. So have the people supposed to pay the auto dealers but I digress.

I read where ole Bill Calley has apologized. Guess that Obama tact is catching on.  So now Woodstock is 40, McNamara is dead, Calley has apologized, Squeaky Fromme (and the Lockerbie bomber btw) are free, McCartney is still touring, there's still a Kennedy in the Senate, I'm living without centr… Read full post »

Well, it's a good thing I don't get paid to blog because I don't work much. Where is the cash for bloggers program?  I'm 54. Its the 40th anniversary of Abbey Road. What would Lennon think of Obama? Oops, hoping to go one day without a thought of him. Obama, not… Read full post »

Who knew so many people liked to write? Moreover, and not get paid for it! Well, count me in. So far, $75.10 in the last nine years publishing on-line. I was hoping Salon would be my cash cow but a quick scan of open Salon quickly discouraged me. Kind of like… Read full post »

I started listening to right wing talk radio in 1991. This was after taking the 80's off from current events following an intensive late 60's-70's period of liberal fervor. I'm seriously thinking of taking 2010-2020 off because, despite the fervor of right wing radio to ratchet up impending armageddo… Read full post »