I wanna grow up to be a politician, and take over this beautiful land. — The Byrds Eric Cantor needs to grow up. Unfortunately, the Republican House majority leader equates a tantrum with statesmanship. He is prepared to hold his breath until, well, until the federal government ceases to operate. …
In Blazing Saddles, cross-eyed Gov. William J. Le Petomane, hearing the town of Rock Ridge has met disaster at the hands of outlaws, announces to his coterie: “We’ve got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentleman. We must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately.” “Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!” goes his…
The sad thing is that bad things always come with “war.” Sure, war is a bad thing unto itself. And when will we study something other than war when we measure ourselves and our leaders? Dylan songs aside, when? But the concern here is the term — war — which we…
One can’t paint recent job figures as anything but dismal. However, anyone who says the economy is grim across the board isn’t paying attention. “Board” is an apropos word. Boards — as in “chairmen of the” — have been doing spectacularly of late. In the last year, annualized corporate profits rose 42 percent. In…
So, the space race took off, and the United States stayed behind. John Kennedy had great ambitions for it and for us, but as 50-year-old tapes now reveal, he was concerned that budget hardliners would shoot it down. And so they did, and the Soviets draped the heavens in red. …