I hope I don’t get sued by Gary Trudeau, but the current storyline in Doonesbury strikes a note that is resonating with more and more Americans. Those of us of a certain age have seen this movie before and it did not have a happy ending for anyone.Buy This Book: Former People writer and friend, Irene Zutell’s new novel “Pieces of Happily Ever After” was published by St. Martin’s Press this week, and if it is as much fun to read as her first novel it will be a great way to spend the Labor Day weekend. She got a great review from Publishers Weekly: Go buy it.
I hope President Obama read David Brooks on Tuesday. He is losing the support of independent voters at Usain Bolt-like speed and, as usual, Brooks puts his finger right on the cause of it. Read it here.
I hate to be insensitive, but when will “California is burning” cease to be news? Isn't it a permanent condition?
I think half of you are already reading it, but Pat Conroy's "South of Broad" is a terrific story by a great American author. I wish I could string words together like that. Three movies worth seeing: Inglorious Basterds, Hurt Locker and Julie & Julia.
...so I booked into a hotel and said to the receptionist,"I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled."
"NO," she said, "it's regular porn, you sick bastard."
And finally, they are burying Michael Jackson today. I hope they dress him in his Thrilla costume -- he won't need any make-up to look like a zombie at this point.
Have a nice, long, last summer weekend.
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Gary Trudeau shares that deja vu feeling. We can keep pouring in blood and treasure but how long will it take for statesmen to emerge from Iraq and Afghanistan when it hasn't happened yet in New Jersey?
On one hand we have to support self serving, corrupt, duplicitous, (add any number of adjectives here) elected officials who don't represent our core values against even worse elements who kill and maim for collaboration. The other option is walking away and allowing the slaughter to ensue and those who directly oppose us to mature.
Add doses of religion, narco-cartels and oil and the Middle East is Vietnam on steroids.
I don't have any answers. But the first thing I would do is call some people on the carpet for getting us stuck in this quicksand. "Mr Morning in America" Ronald Reagan, gave Stinger missiles to the "freedom fighters." Dick Cheney, GW Bush and Donald Rumsfeld were quick to enroll us in this weigh loss program. Congress didn't do its homework and went along for the ride.
If we can't have a solution, how about starting with some accountability?
Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue
St. Anne's skirts are billowing
But down here in the city of the lime lights
The fans of Santa Ana are withering
And you can’t deny that living is easy
If you never look behind the scenery
It's showtime for dry climes
And bedlam is dreaming of rain
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
This is not a test
Of the emergency broadcast system
Where Malibu fires and radio towers
Conspire to dance again
And I cannot believe the media Mecca
They're only trying to peddle reality,
Catch it on prime time, story at nine
The whole world is going insane
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
A placard reads
"the end of days"
Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze
More a question than a curse
How could hell be any worse?
The flames are stunning
The cameras running
So take warning
When the hills of Los Angeles are burning
Palm trees are candles in the murder wind
So many lives are on the breeze
Even the stars are ill at ease
And Los Angeles is burning
"Los Angeles is Burning" by Bad Religion
I was just mentioning the "Is California Burning" thing to my wife the other night. It's news like "it's snowing in MN in february" is news. Who can be surprised or, more importantly, unprepared for this?
We're losing sight of what it is we're trying to do Afghanistan. I thought it was basically a man hunt but apparently I'm wrong.
Read "South of Broad" and it is terrific. Most tightly written book by Conroy yet.
Saw "Hurt Locker" and "Julie and Julia". Both really good. Especially Hurt Locker.
Hit 'em straght D.
The troops increase is deja vu all over again, to quote Yogi. Americans do not like being controlled by foreigners, just look at the anti government hatred focused toward that Kenyan Muslim controlling our government.
Why we think other people in the world want us telling them how to live leaves me clueless. If I loved the baby jesus more then I might understand our missionary zeal to convert the world.
Now that Michael is six feet under, how long will the cable channels keep a camera focused on the grave to record his rising. Of course if he is snuggled in heaven with a few little cherubs, he may not want to come back to mother earth.
Thanks for pointing out the David Brooks article. I could identify.
Has anyone seen “In The Loop”? It’s not yet playing in Tampa.
A review described it as a “savage political satire”.
The Brooks article was all but a death knell for the administration. He surmizes that if he passes health care reform through reconcilation then he has permanently crippled his party. What he doesn't add is that if he does not pass health care most pundits think he has permanently crippled his party.
As Sen Jim Demint said, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
It should be noted that the good Senator said it with all the bipartisan support he could muster and his concern over rising health care costs.
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