HERMAN CAIN’S AMERICA IS A JOHN WAYNE MOVIE
Herman Cain’s campaign commercials communicate through images and gestures a vision of a bare-knuckled America where a quick pummeling gets you back in line — right back to the 1960s.
Danelle
Newt Gingrich Is A Big Baby, Really (and today’s other political humor)
I always thought Newt Gingrich was a big baby, but I had no idea how right I was!
Candied Peel
Only the truly obsessive compulsive need to make their own candied citrus peel in order to make mincemeat. Count me among their number.
Occupy San Francisco — A Movement With A Speech Impediment
At the Occupy San Francisco demonstration, the “human microphone” seemed cult-like to me, a form of protest that encourages obedience to the inanities of some speakers’ words. Is it a lame, and poorly organized disaster? Or am I just too old to get it?
Drug Test Goldman Sachs!
Florida recently instituted a drug test as a qualification to get welfare benefits and discovered that not that many poor people were on drugs. This Ohio state representative thinks we should test the bankers who got the bailout money too.
Talk To Me
A remarkable exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art called “Talk To Me” shows ways that machines enhance our capacity for empathy.