http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It is hard to imagine a more tawdry example of political venality than that on display by the Republican no-hopers in the South Carolina primary. It actually started in New Hampshire, when the little yappy dogs got tired of snapping at Romney’s heels and went for the jugular instead. Gang tackling him for his work with a private equity company? Really? One would expect | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The New York Times claims its motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” but when it comes to Conservative strengths or liberal failings, it’s more a case of “We’ll Get Around to it Eventually.” Though not foolproof, (cf. Walter Duranty), the motto does a good job of conveying the editorial staff’s reluctance to print any news that doesn’t fit their particular bias. | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com In its initial reports of the North Korean Dictator’s demise, the Associated Press wrote, “Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69.” Mercurial and enigmatic? I suppose it tells part of the story, but it’s kind of like starting a notorious mass murderer’s obituary by calling him “the well-traveled Ted Bundy.” Now that the | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com One of my favorite memories of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, back before the players transformed Orchestra Hall into a UAW Union Hall, is of Neeme Jarvi conducting “O Fortuna,” at the end of “Carmina Burana.” Jarvi was a most entertaining conductor, who threw himself into the music with even more enthusiasm than many of the musicians. I will always remember Jarvi reaching up and | Read More »
http;//www.mlgoodell.webs.com Trash-Talking Santa by Michael Goodell http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com I’m a great student of advertising, especially that found on television. More than just about any other medium, advertising can provide an accurate picture of contemporary society. Now, this is not a foolproof device by any means. For example, just the other day I remarked to my wife that the economy must be improving. When she asked why | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It’s just a little over a month until the first official contest in the 2012 Republican primary season, which in this i-Pad culture means things should have been wrapped up by now. It’s gone on too long. Why, all the other Reality TV shows, from “Iron Chef” to “Survivor” to “Dancing With the Hollywood Chefs,” are in reruns by now. | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com The President says to. You have to pity the poor kid currently Occupying the White House. He is desperately seeking reelection, not for his own glory, but out of a sense of duty. His Work is not yet done here. His people still need his transformative gifts. Yet it grows ever more difficult to get through to those wayward subjects. They look at his | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Despite his awkward handling of them, when the first reports began to surface implicating Herman Cain in a pair of sexual harassment complaints dating to his days as President of the National Restaurant Association, it seemed the campaign would easily weather the storm. But then things turned ugly. Now, it seems, almost daily another woman steps up to announce that once, fifteen years or | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Serious peace advocates are waking up this morning at open air day care centers throughout America. They crawl rumpled and scraggly-bearded from their tents to share a breakfast a breakfast of Lucky Charms and Ovaltine with opportunistic drug addicts. But something is different today. In the wake of the American President’s recent announcement of unilateral surrender in “the War in Iraq,” many of these | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com You used to wonder where they’d gotten to, all though proud hope-and-changers, the ones who bought into the hype, who allowed themselves to believe in the New Messiah, who got tingly legs and called him God, and waited for the seas to stop rising, and for the planet to magically heal itself. It all sounds so silly now, so childish. But then again, we | Read More »
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