Reading time – 16 seconds . . . Frequent business travel offers many opportunities to learn. For example, I saw a guy wearing this T-shirt at O’Hare Airport last week. It pretty well defines our national attitude toward open-mindedness, eagerness to learn, tolerance of change and even to creativity. How’s that working for us? If… [read more]
The Endarkened Right
Reading time – 54 seconds . . . This is just too strange – read through to the end and you’ll see why. And, yes, I know that “endarkened” isn’t a word. For now, though, let it stand as the polar opposite of “enlightened.” And let “right” mean not “correct,” but the stupidly polar opposite… [read more]
Babble, Rinse, Repeat
Reading time – 36 seconds . . . An open message to Hillary: This just isn’t working. Pretending that email-gate is laughable or of no consequence makes it look like you’re being flippant about national security. That’s making red meat Republicans absolutely giddy over the scent of scandal in their flaring nostrils. It’s also making… [read more]
Nothing Has Changed
Reading time – 19 seconds; Listening time – 2 minutes . . . Set aside the Republican circus sideshow barker for now, because he is exactly what Steve Schmidt labeled him: The candidate of middle finger Republicans. The reason his poll numbers don’t go down when he says offensive things is because his vulgarity feeds… [read more]
Letter to the Editor, Chicago Tribune
Reading time – 52 seconds . . . A recent poll showed that 96% of Americans deplore the influence of big money on our politics and want that changed. But that hasn’t happened and that big money is the mother lode that drives our national dysfunction. After 20 little kids and 6 teachers were gunned… [read more]
Advice From Marvin
Reading time – 26 seconds . . . This is amazingly good. The current Quinnipiac Poll shows that only 28% of Americans approve the Iran nuclear deal, while 57% oppose it. That means that 85% of Americans have read the 159 page, very technical document and have considered its provisions and the likely consequences. They… [read more]
The Iran Deal
Reading time – 29 seconds . . . We endured the knee-jerks, with their instantaneous, hyperbolic, fact-devoid rejections of the Iran nuclear deal before they had so much as laid their eyes on it and the brainless criticisms have continued unabated. Indeed, for many in DC, self-serving politics designed only to destroy is the norm…. [read more]
Gaseous
Reading time – 109 seconds . . . Cassius Clay renamed himself Muhammed Ali shortly after becoming the boxing heavyweight champion of the world in 1964. He was known for his speed, his agility and for the prolific and colorful nature of his speech. He was dubbed “Gaseous Cassius” by the press, but the public… [read more]
Education
Reading time – 53 seconds . . . Robert Dold (R-IL) represents the 10th congressional district of Illinois and it is quite obvious that he not only took a speed reading course, but he may have invented a hyper-eyeball version of it. I say that because he delivered a blistering rejection of the Iran Joint… [read more]
Stupidity
Reading time – 57 seconds . . . Said Harlan Ellison, “The most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.” That is cynical and harsh, yes, but there surely is an element of truth to be found in that statement. Let me offer a simple syllogism: Doing self-destructive things is stupid Many Americans… [read more]
