I can only conclude based on what I’ve seen over the last few decades, but particularly over the last few years, that the rich really are different from the overwhelming majority of humanity, and it’s not because of some special effort on their part, although behind the scenes it is, but it’s because we’ve made [...]
A long time ago, in a land far away, there was a conservative Vice President who felt beleaguered by the Press, as it existed at the time, and he went so far as to call said press, “nattering nabobs of negativism.” The press today, few of whom could spell any of that, much less use [...]
Two more Italian women have stepped forward to allege Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi entertained them privately, perhaps paying for sex or accepting a suggestion of bribery for sex. CHNN’s Harlan Harrington has been hop-scotching around Italy in the CHNN flying boat – from Rome to Naples to Sardinia and Milan – trying to stay [...]
This morning as I left the house, I grabbed my messenger bag out of the hall closet, and there was an Obama/Biden sign hanging in there, and I decided to take it down. It’s odd, but the John Kerry sign that hung there for four years always kind of cheered me up; not just because [...]
It’s become painfully obvious lately that the reason media discussions and actual votes are so far removed from public opinion about, basically everything, is really pretty simple. It’s not the principle of the thing, it’s the money. Daily we are told that anything Americans might want for themselves are unaffordable luxuries, since the cupboard is [...]
How did such a smart guy fall for that centuries old question with no safe answer when it was used by the US military and CIA while Obama was deciding whether or not to release some 2,000 detainee torture photos? I have no way of knowing if this tricky question was used on him before [...]
For some reason, a lot of Americans, and virtually all of our media, have unaccountably come to the conclusion that running around bombing places willy-nilly is the greatest thing since even before sliced bread; capable of remaking the world to our whims, spreading “freedom,” and when that kind of namby-pamby stuff gets tired, at least [...]
Here in Portland, a city known for its forward thinking urbanistically, successful and growing mass transit system, and famous rejection of proposed and existing freeways in favor of parks and light rail, is in the process of “improving” its light rail and bus hub in downtown by throwing them all together, along with a “business” [...]
It’s gotten rather difficult for me lately to muster up any great surprise over the startlingly racist bile spewing out of the right, since the frequency and proud frankness is enough to make anyone’s already dizzy head spin. Listening to a Republican on TV lately is not unlike listening to my Grandmother, Etta, back in [...]
It seems that the inappropriately named “US” Chamber of Commerce has a real problem with the commie idea of “Buy American.” Having gotten rid of nearly every middle-class manufacturing job in these United States, along with their commie unions, the plutocrat lobby is all of a sudden shedding crocodile tears for state and local governments, [...]