I've finally been able to put away the neck brace; the pivot from "character assassination" to "I'm with Corey Booker" having snapped more than baseline credibility.

Call it withdrawal from fresh programming at The Daily Show, but my mind has been tossing and twirling with the incongruities in our c… Read full post »

ELEVATOR TO 2ND LEVEL

"March 30, 1942
This wall marks the path...
where, on March 30, 1942, Bainbridge Islanders of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) walked, suitcases… Read full post »

If your allergies make you suffer even from visual stimulation, I'll understand and catch you next time. Take a look at this, our current merchant of misery. 

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You know it's coming.

Whether or not the convention will be a brokered one, when Romney, Santorum or a long shot has it sewn up, it will arrive.

There's a reason it takes two men to operate the Frank Luntz suit. One to dream the stuff up and the other… Read full post »

"Choice" is too vague a word any more. I blame co-option of the language.

This week we heard that the kerfuffle (rehashing settled law, long-standing medical practices and public opinion) wasn't about contraception but First Amendment protections. So claimed the culture warriors redux, redux.… Read full post »

Revolving door, mobius rotating:
Which is the more apropos?
When dropping out running for president,
Two more years of laying low:

You never would work as a lobbyist;
Pointless so don't even try.
The moguls called; paying how much you say?
Constitution, say goodbye.

Due process, hell, let 'em… Read full post »

Dr. King once delivered a sermon called "The Drum Major Instinct" which is ripe with parallels to our day.

The politics of destruction, the chutzpah (however you choose to pronounce it) of reality-show presidential candidates, the culture war, imperialism, flattery carrots and fear sticks, the big l… Read full post »

If the eyes are the "window to the soul," then this is "the view from my window" for which our editor has put out the open call.  

I've heard that everything is upside down.

Touch football in Fargo while the best ski conditions in the West… Read full post »

Best use of the imagination which prevents shooting out the TV ... crane falls on "Free Credit Report" band.

Best exposition of a parallel universe voting block ... Joshua Holland, describing your neighbors, whether you know them or not.

Best cattiness ... Tina Brown's choice for cover shot of… Read full post »

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Martha Youdin - Designs in Glass

You sandwich odds and bods between two layers of glass, mindful of both additive… Read full post »

BEFORE MOVING ON TO KANSAS

You may have heard our interstates were closed, they got 14" snow in town, travellers were stranded east and north of Albuquerque and it was one big mess.

The snow quit here overnight. My groggy self put up the coffee, opened a… Read full post »

THE PUDDY HOODY

 

NO ONE WILL KNOW ABOUT THAT OUT OF PLACE LICK!

ROBERT "BOB" WARHOL, STANDARDS FALLS, RI