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February 22, 2008

It seems like eons ago that pundits and politicians were asking: Is Sen. Barack Obama black enough? That well educated people, including prominent members of the black intelligentsia, were posing this query shows how far we still need to go to expunge racism from our society.
Obama is an articulate and intelligent gentleman, with an impressive [...]

February 5, 2008

"The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.
According to this week's Fire Cracker school [...]

January 29, 2008

When I consider the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, I'm reminded of the eloquence of Dr. Martin Luther King, the dream of Camelot, the energy of youth, and the revolutionary zeal of a Washington outsider.
In Obama I glimpse the light at the of the end of the tunnel in Iraq, the end of the demonization of immigrants, [...]

January 17, 2008

"Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory Saturday, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him.Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident with his son at their home in Pardeeville, Lt. Wayne [...]

January 14, 2008

"In an interview with Major Garrett in New Hampshire last week, Clinton criticized the analogy Obama had drawn between his own hopeful campaign and the words of Dr King —saying 'I would point to the fact that Dr King´s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act… That dream became [...]

January 13, 2008

"Germany's latest celebrity polar bear cub remains nameless — but already boasts a dedicated Web site providing details of its health and giving readers a chance to christen the cuddly creature. The city of Nuremberg, in cooperation with its zoo, launched the site on Friday — luring viewers with a gallery of photos of the [...]

"Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time."
Quotation from Wikipedia
Performance art pushes the envelope; I lived in San Francisco for 41 years and I [...]

January 12, 2008

"A man lay dead in his apartment in Australia's largest city for a year before anyone noticed, officials and news reports said Thursday.
The body of Jorge Chambe, 64, was found on Tuesday in his single bedroom, government-owned flat in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona when police and firefighters broke in, after concerns about his welfare [...]

Sen. Barack Obama is a gifted orator who has that rare ability to move people to political action. Barack's speeches have persuaded young people and first time voters of all ages to become involved in the political process.
Obama reminds me of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King; if elected president he has an opportunity to [...]

January 8, 2008

Some things you never expect to see in your lifetime: Oprah Winfrey sporting a string bikini; Rudy Giuliani finishing a sentence without mentioning 9/11; Mike Tyson delivering a commencement address at Oxford University, and Hillary Clinton crying.
Hillary Clinton is aloof and arrogant, when she nicks her legs while shaving (what a horrendous image), I'm persuaded [...]

January 4, 2008

 Why did Hillary Clinton suffer such a humiliating and crushing defeat in Iowa?
Consider the two candidates who finished ahead of her in Iowa:
What words come to mind when you think of Sen. Barack Obama?
Hope, change, youth, eloquence, anti-war, warmth, handsome, attractive wife and cute kids, energetic…
How about Sen. John Edwards?
Advocate for the middle class and the poor, tireless, universal health [...]

January 3, 2008

"If you're younger than 35, you'll probably live long enough to put David Levy's prediction to the test. Levy says that by 2050 we'll be creating robots so lifelike, so imbued with human-seeming intelligence and emotions, as to be nearly indistinguishable from real people. And we'll have sex with these robots. Some of us will [...]

December 31, 2007

Billy Ray Cyrus, the country singer and actor, is responsible for unleashing a raging river of evil. Cyrus made sporting a mullet popular and recorded, "The Acky Breaky Heart", the worst song in the history of pop music.
The country crooner has now spawned the Hannah Montana craze. His daughter, Miley Cyrus, stars in the Hannah Montana [...]

December 28, 2007

 The "catchphrase" of the presidential campaign is "change agent"; all the candidates claim that only they can bring about change in Washington and in the nation.
All of the GOP presidential hopefuls are middle-aged, wealthy, white men; if one of them wins it will be a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
The [...]

December 24, 2007

When adults or children see a crucifix, the image of Christ nailed to a cross seldom elicits pity or sorrow. America is not a Christian nation; even the most fervent evangelicals worship materialism and not God.
The icon that best represents America is not a crucifix, but Santa Claus. The Jolly Old Fella represents the rampant consumerism that infects [...]

December 23, 2007

"Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Republican, created a stir with an ad where he tells the camera: 'Just remember what really matters is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and being with friends and family.'
Behind Huckabee is a white, cross-like object that the governor has said is a bookshelf (on it lie [...]

December 13, 2007

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. … Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone."
Who spoke these words, the head of an Islamic state or the president of an evangelical association? Unfortunately, this odious phrase was uttered by Mitt Romney, who is running for president of the United States.
This is an excerpt from Romneys' [...]

December 9, 2007

"Microsoft Corp. quickly shut down Santa Claus' Web privileges after it found out the automated elf it created for kids to instant message with was talking naughty, not nice. Last year, Microsoft encouraged kids to connect directly to "Santa" by adding northpole@live.com to their Windows Live Messenger contact lists. The Santa program, which Microsoft reactivated [...]

When I was a little brat "brand consciousness" was a foreign concept; I would plead with my Mom, "let's go to a burger place", not "let's go to McDonald's."
But today, by the time kids are in elementary school they have already seen or heard millions of commercials on TV, the radio, the Internet and just [...]