Newt Gingrich | Newt Gingrich
Aug.30.2012
It’s official. The symbolic head of the Republican Party is not Ronald Reagan. It’s Pee-Wee Herman.
It was Herman after all, as portrayed by comic actor Paul Reubens, whose only comeback to every criticism was, “I know you are but what am I?”
And it is this mantra — this maddening, childlike,...
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Apr.30.2012
photo: front cover, from its Amazon page
All right, everyone, it's been a long while since I posted my review of the stories in this anthology. I've been sidetracked by various and sundry issues, but here's the concluding blog entry about these stories. Overall I found this...
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Apr.07.2012
After the Persian Gulf War, when President Bush had 91 percent approval ratings, it appeared possible that the Democrat party might become obsolete, like the Whigs of the 19th Century. Events of 1992 changed that perception, but in 1994 the viability of the Democrats, and the relevance of...
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Mar.21.2012
Currently I am Misool Eco-Resort on an island in far Eastern Indonesia, one of the most beautiful places in the world. I don’t say this to brag. I say it because Misool Eco-Resort represents the best of humankind striving to find the proper balance between the natural world and—
Oh, who am I...
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Mar.12.2012
And now your eagerly awaited Super Tuesday Report. Named for the quantity of contests and not the quality of participants. Perhaps it would be more apt to say Not So Super Tuesday Report. More of a Frenetic and Confusing but Ultimately Unsatisfying with a Slight Aftertaste of Desperation...
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Mar.07.2012
Today, I was going to take part in an Occupy the Tenderloin meeting with Son Jason, but I was not feeling well, and besides, we had the wrong day! Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow . . . .
This turn gave me time to watch the Republican Super Tuesday spectacle. Every cable...
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Feb.22.2012
Today, my interviewer called me at the appointed time: 4 p.m. (EST) from Buffalo, NY.
Here, the temperature was in the upper 60's and higher in other areas, record breakers. Who says Global Warming can't be fun, sayeth the Frog.
The interviewer had sent me chapters from...
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Feb.19.2012
Don't mean to overreact and risk boosting everybody's blood pressure higher than opening offers on Facebook's upcoming IPO, but this might be a halfway decent time to seek out a nice safe steel bunker to hunker down in or behind, because it's awards season and heavy metal statuettes are being...
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Feb.13.2012
There's something about Mitt. And whatever it is, a few folks are definitely allergic. Maybe they sense he has the same connection to humanity that a drive shaft has to bouillabaisse. Could be he's worth more than most small Balkan nations. Might be the Mormon thing or perhaps he just smells...
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Feb.04.2012
Had a brief laugh this morning while reading about GOP candidates in Nevada.
Las Vegas and Nevada suffered hugely when the housing bubble went pop. Statistics, which can lie, suggest that 58% of homes with mortgages are worth less than they're mortgages. Foreclosures have been high and...
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