From Associated Press: “The (Newtown) tragedy prompted calls for greater gun controls. But the NRA is resisting those efforts, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection.” That intriguing parsing from the AP is most telling. The National Rifle Association is a separate branch of our government, a statutory…
DetailsA review of 2012 found reality television continuing to consume the medium like typhoid. Or, more appropriately, like mononucleosis ravaging a freshman dorm. You might call it all flotsam — but I’m here to report that one reality show truly proved instructive. I speak of “The Really Biggest Loser.”…
DetailsBarely attentive to anything that would prevent such horrors — Newtown, Aurora, Tucson — we are entranced by the gripping accounts and vigils and memorial services afterward. We reflect on compelling examples of courage and calm like the teacher who herded her students into the closet and occupied them with Crayons and paper as…
DetailsUntil now, the last clear mandate coming out of a presidential election was in 1932 when voters demanded of Roosevelt: End this Depression. And make it rain while you’re at it. Notice I said “until now,” and that should raise eyebrows. In this divided, divisive political landscape, how could anyone attach a…
DetailsThis is brilliant. And to think it came from the folks who made the mess in the first place. The mess is the buying of our government. I can’t believe that Republicans in Texas and Florida have come up with the solution. That solution: urine samples. This may take some explaining, because…
DetailsBy all rights it will rank as one of TV news’ singular moments — along with Edward R. Murrow tongue-whipping Joe McCarthy, and with Walter Cronkite turning against the Vietnam war. It was the night a Fox News anchor told Karl Rove to get over himself — in so many words. Election Night…
DetailsIt’s lonely, my friends. Lonely, once again, to arise in this chamber of information ad infinitum to speak the truth, about sweet potatoes. And speak I will. This time of year, when the topic is most current and the marshmallow cream most lavish, I send my message to the masses. It concerns…
DetailsIt’s so rare to see a movie, a true box-office smash, so relevant, so timely, that we can literally see life mimicking art outside the multiplex. Such is the timeliness of "Lincoln." How could Steven Spielberg have known that when his Civil War biopic came out, talk of secession would…
DetailsThe new speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives is gay. So are five of his colleagues, all Democrats. Once closeted, marginalized and demonized, all are “in” by virtue of a progressive wave that now has the whole of Colorado governance in Democrats’ hands. Out? Former House Speaker Frank McNulty.…
DetailsHere’s a saying to savor in the silence of a post-election morn, when the robins sing, doves coo, and commercial breaks once again are back to glorious things like erectile deficits: The early bird (voter) gets the worm. Make that the White House. Another aphorism from 2012: A robocall gathers no votes.…
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