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Another One Bites the Dust!
 Posted 3/8/2010 10:51:00 AM
Another One - in this case, another Leading Cultural Indicator - bites the dust: the Oscars.
Though never among those enthralled about Hollywood and its product, like everybody else I grew up enjoying films and fairly excited to learn which would be honored by that greatest possible industry recognition - and American Iconic Status - an Oscar Nomination, and maybe even the special statue itself.
In my lifetime, I have witnessed such reactions to films including Patton, The Deer Hunter, The
Godfather (I and II), Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Star Wars..and so on.
Last night, I shook my head as a fine actor, Jeff Bridges, got a "make-up" best-actor Oscar for a laughably low-budget, simple-minded, phone-it-in role as a broken down singing cowboy, featuring ...
What is a "Mitt Romney Republican"?
Posted 3/4/2010 12:42:00 PM
What is a "Mitt Romney Republican"?
What is a "Scott Brown Republican"?
Do they differ? If so, how? And will it lead inevitably to Massachusetts political civil war?
How has the national political stage changed since Mitt was last a candidate? How does he fit in right now? Will he run in 2012?
What does Mitt think of Obama so far?
Well, let's ask him: today these questions and more put to Governor Mitt Romney in his first Boston
radio conversation.
Today at 4:30.
Forntier Town, Here we Come!
Posted 3/3/2010 12:29:00 PM
The good news is that the Supreme Court appears poised to strike down gun-control laws acorss the nation.
The bad news is that we may not all be ready for our fellow citizens strolling the streets wearing sidearms - now legal in some states.
Personally, I am pretty much as much a second amendment absolutist as I am a first amendment absolutist.
I am utterly comfortable with ME walking around packing heat. Cool!
I am just not sure about YOU.
I admit I am not entirely sanguine with the picture of an openly armed populace.
Imagine a Patriot's game at which the majority of fans are doing a for-real Dirty Harry impersonation ("Son, this is a .44 Magnum. And seeing as how it could blow your head clean off...")
"Oh, and Get Me Shix More Beersh"
Frontier Town, here we come!
- JS
2nd Amendment Under Fire
Posted 3/2/2010 11:34:00 AM
Can you imagine if the state of Mississippi passed a law that said "Catholics may not own property."?
Well, ok, it is Mississippi - perhaps we can imagine it.
But you get my point.
Everybody - across political lines - would indignantly declare the screamingly obvious and entirely correct objection: No state may ever deny an American citizen a constitutional right.
Right.
Unless, of course, we're talking about the bastard amendment, the second amendment, which codifies the already-existing God-given natural right to own firearms.
Then some Americans cough, look sideways, and change the subject.
In Chicago, an elderly retired man who is, for fear of violence, afraid to walk the streets of his neighborhood; his apartment broken into and his modest belongings stolen three times this year.
And so this man wishes a gun to protect himself (though the reason ought not matter).
But he lives in Chicago, a place ...
The White House Enemies List!
Posted 3/1/2010 12:33:00 PM
It is the latest thing.
Actually, more like "everything that's old is new again".
It's the New, Improved, White House Enemies List...and We're On It!
I am so excited.
Can you imagine being a talk show and Not being on it? (Like the old days when some activists got subpoenas from the government, and some did not; those who didn;t were said to have "Subpoenas Envy".)
It's right there at radio.barackobama.com: call up these radio shows and fight for Obama-care...then Report back to us - the White House!
I did. I reported me, and you. (For real.)
Here's what I said: "Yes, my call to the Jay Severin Show on 96.9 Boston Talks went through, and I spoke with the audience. We all agreed: your policies are Marxist-Socialist and a threat to our way of life. We agreed that we're doing every day what you refuse to do: preserve, protect ...
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