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Politics

• Politics

  In which I destroy my political viability within the system

  03.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It is past time to repeal this nation’s counter-productive and repressive drug laws.  The erosion of civil liberties that have accompanied the last twenty years of drug policing should be reason enough, but the added benefit of taxing a legal product should add impetus for change. The main danger with such a shift in policy is that […]

• Politics

  Stop it. Just stop.

  11.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  You would think that we could have maybe a day or two respite from politicking, but no. Earlier today, as I was walking to Border’s to buy the audio mash note from my gal-pal Lucinda Williams, I passed a street corner exhibit denouncing the Wall Street bailout. I had just glimpsed the name “LaRouche” on […]

• Dogs, Politics

  Raising the bar

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Congratulations to President-elect Obama. While his is an inspiring achievement for many, let us not forgot that for others his example is less salutary. I am not speaking here of his political rivals. Instead I think we should pity first-generation children of immigrants, to whom he now represents an almost insurmountable set of expectations. Also, […]

• Politics, Work

  A wild guess

  10.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Because I get irritated by all the anti-mark-to-market bloviating going on, here is an apposite observation by Pierce Scranton, Chief of Staff to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors (feel free to discount any and all of his opinions if you: (a) hate advisors, (b) hate chiefs of staff, (c) hate the gubmint, (d) hate […]

• Movies, Politics

  Oh fer two

  09.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chevy Chase is hoping some fellow comedian will decimate Sarah Palin, who has apparently insulted his sense of proper gender roles: “I want her to decimate this woman. This woman is, I can’t believe there hasn’t been more about it. … It’s just unbelievable to me this woman is actually running for vice president,” he continued. Any […]

• Politics

  Sometimes a great notion

  09.04.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  The vice-presidential candidate of one party is six years older than I, and the presidential candidate of the other party only nine years older.  Either I am getting old or our political system is overwhelmed by the fresh groovy waves of youth.  Obviously the only thing to do is to declare my own intention to […]

• Politics

  Choosy Interviewee

  08.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last night I dreamed that I was being interviewed by Clarence Page, man-on-the-street style, about Barack Obama.  My only reply that I recall was that I thought Obama would like me more than McCain would.  Also that a white reporter wanted to interview me but I had no time for him because he worked for […]

• Foreigners, Politics

  Dumb and dumber

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jim Corr is self-evidently a cretin and I should not assist in propagating any cretinous musician’s political views.  However, a certain common element to his ravings struck me as worthy of comment.  This is the use by these cretins of jargon to give their idiocies a patina of authority.  In Corr’s case he refers to a […]

• Foreigners, Politics

  Honi soit qui mal y pense

  04.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  When Gorgeous George Galloway appeared before the Senate way back when, even some of those who thought he was lying through his oil-smeared pie-hole could admire his artful use of parliamentary rhetoric.  In a similar vein, I present an official defending his government’s policy with an élan that Condoleeza Rice was unable to summon when confronted […]

• Politics, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Dude

  01.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you emerge from the bushes in the landscaping around the Walgreen’s parking lot, and I am walking by with the dogs, and if you’ve just been in those bushes for the purpose of getting high by whatever means, then please don’t try and engage me in incoherent, drug-logic small-talk.  I really don’t care what […]

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