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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace– more about killing than we know about living.” — General Omar Bradley
Well, frumps, it’s that time of year so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised to find the “ghost of perversions past” rattling his [...]
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Well, frumps, it’s Thanksgiving 2009 and, whatever else you have to be thankful for, maybe you’d like to join me in my little annual tradition of giving thanks that I’m not a Republican. Because you, see, if we were Republicans we would have to act like the following were sane and exciting developments . . [...]
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The Party’s Over
Well, frumps, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later: Glenn Beck is feeling his oats and is going all political activist on us. Maybe it was the success of his 912 Project’s Million-or-so Wingnut March on Washington, or maybe it was the warm fuzzy rush when Candidate Doug Hoffman cited [...]
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Well, frumps, this is some sort of bumpy roller-coaster ride we find ourselves on. Yesterday I wrote about my sense that there was a growing movement, even among Republicans, toward disassociating from some of the right wing extremism that has plagued us since last year. As elated as I was yesterday morning, by last night [...]
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So, frumps, some of you, I’m sure, are old enough to remember a school of social psychology that advocated pillow-punching to help us get out our latent aggressions. I believe it became popular 1970s-ish, somewhere between Primal Screaming and Dianetics. The basic idea behind pillow-punching was that the pillow would stand in for “the enemy.” [...]
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Well, frumps, as Aristotle once said, “nature abhors a vacuum” and that concept is the only reasonable explanation that I can come up with to explain the painful spectacle of the GOP’s excruciating demise. When sane Republicans, troubled by George W. Bush’s rogue administration, headed discreetly for the exits, they created a . . . [...]
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