John Maynard Keynes made allusions to the economic benefit of government creating demand-side wealth by paying people to dig holes, and then pay other folks to follow on behind them and fill ‘em in. Now, we can get all pointy-headed, and argue about whether or not this English Fauntleroy actually said it, but the fact remains that this sort of Keynesian flibber-flubber is what has | Read More »
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Answer: Serving in the Presidency of the United States was their first experience with Elective Office. It’s a rather uninspiring group, on the whole. But, it also points out that the election of Herman Cain would hardly be unprecedented, even in the Modern Era. Also, I think Cain’s candidacy leads to a bigger point: All the professional pols we’ve entrusted with the office ain’t been | Read More »
For a bunch of folks that sit around, copulate, defecate and expectorate, they sure do have a bunch of lusty, active demands: “Destroy the Greedy Banks!”, “Punish the Eco-Defilers!”, “Give Everyone Money!” the “Occupy” crowd yells incessantly. But one demand is striking, given that “education” has, for years, been the touchstone as the entree to the American Dream: “Free College Education” the “occupiers” are demanding. | Read More »
Old friends, old friends, Sat on their parkbench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes of the high shoes of the old friends Old friends, winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset The sounds of the city sifting through trees Settles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends. Can you imagine | Read More »
So, the Rainbow Gathering meets Brooks Brothers at the “Occupy Wall Street” hootenanny. The possibilities for high (!) comedy seem endless. “Hey guys, watch out… We just heard there’s some really bad Tweed floating around!” Uh, I don’t know how to tell these “protestors”, but they’ve been occupying Wall Street for forty years now. Going back as far as Jimmy Carter’s Banker-In-Residence Bert Lance, all | Read More »
By now, Americans have learned one immutable truth: Conservative white men are either Stupid or Evil, or Stupid AND Evil. Exhibit “A”? Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, and Henry Hyde were just Stupid. Barry Goldwater, Samuel Alito and James Watt were Evil. Oliver North, Jesse Helms and George W. Bush were Evil AND Stupid. Conservative Blacks, on the other hand, are Lazy AND Stupid AND Evil. | Read More »
“Electability” is a canard. Richard Nixon appeared on the Jack Paar show on February 20th, 1963. Paar asked him, “Of all the possible republican candidates, who would be the best to beat Kennedy?” “Which one?” Nixon replied. With one Kennedy in the White House, one as the Attorney General of the United States, and a third Kennedy just elected to the Senate, the laughing audience | Read More »
Absolute knowledge have I none, But my aunt’s washerwoman’s sister’s son Heard a policeman on his beat Say to a laborer on the street that he had a letter just last week A letter which he did not seek– From a Chinese merchant in Timbuctoo Who said that his brother in Cuba knew Of an Indian chief in a Texas town Who got the dope | Read More »
President Gerald Ford, second Presidential Debate, October 20, 1976: “There is no Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under the Ford Administration.” Ford made matters even worse in the days following the comment by saying what he’d said was true. It was up to Ford’s Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney to try to mitigate the comment by “clarifying” it at a | Read More »
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