HONOLULU — Despite deep internal divisions and other problems, Republicans still appear invigorated after devastating national elections that saw them lose control of Congress and then the White House. The reason? An elite Hawaiian vacation/Stategery Session.
Reading the following description from Wikipedia of The Three Witches, I just couldn’t help but be reminded of the three crones depicted above.* The Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare’s day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, “the most notorious …
On her show Thursday night, Rachel Madow interviewed Mother Jones correspondent David Corn (two of my favorite people). The tag line describing the clip above, “Lack of an honest opposition lamentable”, while accurately describing the content, doesn’t come close to capturing the depth of the problem they address. Lamentable means “bad, unfortunate.” As I read the numerous socio-political-economic crises facing …
Sleazy Pancakes? Desenex Burgers? Burnt Weeny Sandwiches?
Only one place to get’em.
Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said. I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of Risk I played as a kid. According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest of the World. It was likely modeled on the period of history that historians …
I’m not a subscriber to BullShit Runner Magazine. It’s too expensive. But I did manage to snag this copy from the unisex restroom at Running Rogue, a new theme running equipment store that just opened at the end of Columbia Center Mall in Kennewick next to the Lids store. I was in Kennewick to sample the Friday night seafood buffet at the Crow’s Nest, detailed here. . .
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.
