This Saturday, before Valentines day, please can you give the poets of OS one chance at the cover?  

I beseech the poets, to unleash their words of love, seduction, adoration and lust.  Let the front page of OS break the rules, let the Poets have the cover for one… Read full post »

The infantilization of the American continues.  We are fed fantasies, fairy tales and folk lore.  We will never grow up.  We have entire industries that perpetuate the fantasies.   The saddest part is that they work at keeping us mesmerized.  

God forbid that we should really… Read full post »

Sarah inspired me. I am all for it.  Time for the revolution.  

Bringing out my Castro and Che  inspired chapeaux collection.  

My inspirational music:  

The Executive Director of Planned Parenthood ,Cecile Richards, :  "If we had $20 million we would spend it on women's healthcare".    Instead of making women's issues an  emotional football, lets revisit choice.  

Spread the Planned Parenthood message:  Respect women's c… Read full post »

There was a time I used to like to watch football.  But those days are gone.  I don't know, I am just not interested.  I have nothing against people who still love the game, please, indulge all you want, I love the Real Housewives of Orange County, so as far as… Read full post »

If you are lucky enough to be at Sundance, you can see the movie the Shock Doctrine.

 If you have Comcast, for $7.99 you can watch it today.  But, just in case, here is a short version.  

Although you may think you remember recent history,… Read full post »

How much pork fat, offal, sausage and beer can we take Anthony? Extreme eating has run its course.  Anthony, the king of the genre, you must put it out of its misery.   Take a year, or maybe two years,  come back with a new take on food.  I cannot watch… Read full post »

While you go through your day and you hear on the radio about the proposed hundreds of tax increases, and you read about the new tax hysteria remember the three things below .  ( This post is just about the income side of the budget and how the media is already… Read full post »

The party that is concerned with the deficits, the GOP, voted in unity against the Pay As You Go.  What is Pay As You Go?  Well, it's simple, if Congress passes something that costs money, they have to find a way to pay for it.  Either cuts ,or taxes could be the… Read full post »

 When we came to America, my father got a Union job, the Machinists Union.  We were lefties anyway, so I have to say, I am an avowed Union supporter.  So, don't start here with the brain washing you all got in the last thirty years against unions.   

I… Read full post »

Woke up this morning to an NPR poll that foretelss the following future for the Democrats, particularly Obama.   What to do with this polling data?  Here are the basic points of the poll.

• For the midterm election, 39% of the electorate would vote for a Democratic Congressional
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Next time you bash a Catholic, tell me, what other faith, or non faith people there are like these people?  

On Monday, January 25, 2010,

U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth sentenced three human rights advocates to six months in federal prison for carrying a protest against… Read full post »

Last night I just could not sleep, something obvious and simple kept jiggling in my brain. It seems to me that personhood was endowed on an artificial man made entity, the corporation, with a great deal of ease. Yet, the same voices that support personhood for an inanimate object, will… Read full post »

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 A three year drought may be reaching it's end here in California.  We had enough rain in January to fill the reservoirs, but still, we need to see what will happen with the snow levels till we can start flushing after every pee, or maybe not.  

 So, not to… Read full post »

Today, the day after the Supreme Court abolished 63 years of restrictions on direct political contributions, I am introducing  a once in a life time opportunity for American and International corporations and Unions: Naming Rights for elected officials.  We are abolishing party affiliations… Read full post »

When it comes to our political landscape, it's easy to trash the Republicans with their economic world view and their bizarre social agenda.  The Democrats, another easy target:  not united, they miss opportunities, blah, blah, blah.  The truth is, that it's the Independents that are t… Read full post »

Sorry, folks but I cannot get into " the world is ending" from the left and the "revolution has started" from the right.   Of course we have the fainting and heartbroken political newbies , or what I call "inspired class" slinking off for more therapy, yoga or  Xanax.   Ahh,… Read full post »

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  I will never have to hear:  " Don't blame me I am from Massachusetts" !!  

Now Liberals/ Progressives will not blame Kansas for everything that goes wrong.  

 I w… Read full post »

Golly gee since most of you missed my wonderful stewing piece, with videos and all, here is a quickie cooking tip.  

I post this to show people that You Tube is not useless.  It's better than the Food Network and anything Sarah Lee, or what's her name can teach you.  … Read full post »

My brother and his wife, will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary on Valentine's Day.   He was a young immigrant to America, she was the classic Irish Catholic young woman, roots from New England.   

They were married when I was six years old and still in Egypt.  I though… Read full post »

Yes, it's me again being PC and all that.   Read more about it here. 

Joan Walsh today has great commentary, When Gossip Trumps News .  Joan makes some excellent points about the quality of Game Change, a tell all gossip  book by  John Heilemann and Mark Halperin , about the 2008 campaign.   Mostly the stories are not sourced, th… Read full post »

And now for something completely frivolous.  

What movie is that line from?   I warn you, this is an ear worm.  

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