Tom Cordle

Tom Cordle
Location
Mayberry, Tennessee,
Birthday
June 16
Bio
I'm an author, singer-songwriter and seeker of truth, justice and the long-lost American Way. But the best way to find out about me is to read what I've written. There's a link to each of my posts at the bottom of this column.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009 11:31AM

Sundays with Schopenhauer II

“God is dead … and we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?” Friedrich NietzscheRead full post »

NOVEMBER 10, 2009 7:09PM

Aborted Logic

Bart Cottonmouth StupakDoes your legislator kill babies? For decades, conservatives have denied prenatal care to poor women; as a consequence, millions of babies have died or been born with debilitating birth defects.

Now these conservatives are about to perform another abortion. By clinging to their hypocriticalRead full post »

NOVEMBER 7, 2009 3:25PM

Muslim First, American Second

flag at half-mastThe massacre at Fort Hood, like the massacre at Virginia Tech, has left many people dumb-founded. It was shocking when it happened on a college campus, but it is almost beyond belief that it could happen on a well-guarded military base. This tragedy reminds yet again that there is noRead full post »

NOVEMBER 4, 2009 4:30PM

Ladies Man

Macho men are monsters, a very fickle breed
Prone to primal urges and to infantile needs

Elemental egos, a medieval mind to match

Desperate for attention and a woman’s cloying …

Snatching up a woman for a momentary fling
Insinuating succor – but providing only sting
In case of impreg
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NOVEMBER 1, 2009 12:30PM

J’accuse Redux

 J'accuse"Mr. President,

Would you allow me to show my concern for your well-earned prestigious reputation and to point out that your star, which until now has shown so brightly, risks being dimmed by the most shameful and indelible of stains?

 Unscathed by vile slander, you have wonRead full post »

OCTOBER 29, 2009 11:09AM

Canaries in a Cathouse

Not so long ago, miners carried a canary with them into the mines; if it died from toxic fumes, they knew it was time to get out. That same sad practice continues, only the canaries are the 50,000 or so people who die every year in the black holes of theRead full post »

OCTOBER 23, 2009 11:18AM

Party Invitation

In my previous post Revolt of the Pitbulls, I lamented the decline and possible fall of the Republican Party. Having invited in a Trojan horse filled with religious warriors on the Rabid Right who would rather commit seppuku than compromise on core values, the Republican Party seems headed for politiRead full post »

OCTOBER 21, 2009 11:23AM

Revolt of the Pitbulls

Revolt of the Pitbulls

Alas, Republicans have become like one of their favorite whipping boys, the French – they lost their own revolution. Not so long ago, they broadened the party to include even Reagan Democrats. But it wasn’t inviting people to the left that caused Republican woes; it was selling-oRead full post »

In previous lamentations in this outpost of semi-literacy and semi-civility, I coined a few terms I felt were essential to an understanding of the changing nature of life in the 21st Century, a time when political skullduggery and financial thievery has devolved to depths not witnessed since the gildRead full post »

OCTOBER 14, 2009 10:27AM

Raquel and Rush - A Love Story

raquel welch posterRaquel Welch and Rush Limbaugh – it's a love story, but it's certainly not one made in heaven. They're in love, all right, but only with themselves though in Rush's case the line between self-love and self-loathing may be a bit blurry.

But to hear them tell it,Read full post »

OCTOBER 12, 2009 12:59PM

Children of Columbus

columbus wanted posterI wasted a trip to the post office today, and all the way home I fumed as I do every Columbus Day. Why do we celebrate Columbus Day?

I suppose it was originally a sop to Italian-Americans. But if I were an Italian-American, I’d be insulted. Why not Leonardo daRead full post »

OCTOBER 9, 2009 2:41PM

The Beat Goes On

In my post Connecting the Dots, I lamented the fact that so many fail to see the connection between evils like banketeering and insuragency. No, those aren’t misspellings; racketeering by bankers and terrorism by insurers are the result of one and the same thing: greed.

In his post NotesRead full post »

OCTOBER 7, 2009 1:14PM

Doctored Truth

chinese doctorI seldom pass along chain-mails, but this one I couldn’t resist. It purports to be an interview with a Chinese doctor about nutrition and exercise:

Q: Does cardiovascular exercise prolong life?

A: No, only seem longer. Heart only good for so many beats,Read full post »

OCTOBER 5, 2009 12:26PM

Connecting the Dots

connect the dotsOne reason government of the people, by the people and for the people is perishing from this earth is the people's failure to connect the dots. As Aristotle pointed out, connecting the dots is more art than science, but it is rapidly becoming a lost art.Read full post »

OCTOBER 3, 2009 11:23AM

Let’s Face It

The face of Thomas Jefferson must have been filled with a kind of ecstatic joy as he sat at his desk, quill in hand, writing the words that declared a people free from a dictatorial system that robbed them of their rights and their wealth. Would that he was with usRead full post »

OCTOBER 2, 2009 2:54PM

Tyranny of the Minority

The debate – some would say debacle – in the Senate Finance Committee over including a public option as part of healthcare reform seems to confirm the old adage that sheep in Montana have more representation than people in California.

Polls consistently show a substantial majority of AmeRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 8:05PM

Loon River

andy williamsApparently, The Sixties were harder on crooner Andy Williams than anyone realized. The singer may have appeared mellow on the outside, but he appears to have suffered some sort of permanent psychological damage when his former wife Claudine Longet deserted him for skier Spider Sabich.

WhaRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 7:28PM

The Divide Comedy

King Liar, played by Max Buttkiss

An incompetent usurper who sells out his subjects but is so fearful of having his perfidy exposed he mutters in an all but unintelligible mumble in which every other word seems to be missing

Cornass, played by Gnarls CrassleyRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 5:26PM

WWJD - What Would Jesus Deal?

Recently, several seemingly intelligent people have attempted to explain away the great and growing gap between the haves and have-nots in this country, and the disconnect between that gap and the claim that America is the most Christian of nations, by resorting to the Prosperity Gospel, a corruptionRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 3:45PM

Passing the Bucks

Some people say they’re sick and tired of talk about healthcare reform. Too bad – because that’s exactly what those with very vested interests in the outcome are counting on – the pitiful attention span of a majority of the American public.

Too busy watching Desperate HousRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 12:58PM

Country Preacher

I just lost a dear friend, a man who meant a lot to me over the last ten years. That may not seem like such a long time, but we had the kind of friendship that forms at first meeting, a platonic love at first sight that grows quickly as bothRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 1:36PM

Barry the Kid

Barry the KidTalk in Washington these days has turned from reforming healthcare to regulating the insurance industry. But after Enron, AIG, Bernie Madoff, et al, people can be forgiven for being skeptical about regulation.

Some argue our present woes were caused by regulators who didn’t believe in r… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 5:17PM

Misunderdiagnosis

misdiagnosisOkay, it’s official  I’m pissed. Many here, including Cap’n Parrotdead and some well-intended commenters on his post, say they’re tired of all the whining about healthcare reform. Channeling Spiro T. Agnew, the good Cap'n called those of us who continue to speakRead full post »

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 3:53PM

Prophesizing On Profiteering

tort reformIt is written that a prophet is least honored in his own country. Even Jesus was run out of his hometown so why is a fool like me prophesizing on a blog like this? Simple it is also written that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 11:41AM

A Character Study

healthcareIn his recent address, President Obama delivered his position on healthcare reform and the controversy surrounding it in the strongest terms yet. He chided the children among us, the so-called adults fearful of all that is new – even when it is necessary and in their best interest &ndasRead full post »