The excellent website Living Room Candidate contains over 300 presidential ads from Eisenhower/Stevenson to today. It is edifying. It is saddening. It shows just how effective Madison Ave has become in shaping our leaders’ messages and, in a very real and organic way, it shows the evolution of the attack Continue Reading
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Camp Obama. Yeah, I guess we can.
Towards the middle of the day I had mixed emotions.To say that a grassroots political training camp is a playground for chaos is an understatement.Sadly, its our fault: We’re democrats. We don’t really like to take orders. We ask questions. We question authority. So, it takes twice as long to Continue Reading
Listening Post: Aerosmith – Done With Mirrors
Joe Perry’s back! Does it matter? Aerosmith – Done With Mirrors – 1985 (Buy It) The band is “Done with mirrors”, they would have us believe. They like the amateur puns, these guys. In this case, we are to believe that they are done with using mirrors to cut their Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Rock in a Hard Place
Halfway through the Aerosmith catalog we finally reach the ’80s…… Aerosmith – Rock in a Hard Place – 1982 (buy it) Joe Perry takes his big licks and leaves the band for his own form of superstardom. Anyone remember The Joe Perry Project? Yeah, yeah, but do you own the Continue Reading
Listening Post: Aerosmith – Night in the Ruts
We continue the journey (hey! Journey! Maybe……) of blues/rock with the boys from Boston. Aerosmith – Night in the Ruts – 1979 (buy it) Night in the Ruts (Right in the Nuts, get it? Huh? Actually I didn’t until just now…..damn, I hate being stupid.) starts off with a big, Continue Reading
What is the most dangerous person on the planet?
A dumb person who thinks they’re smart. Smarter than you and above reproach. Watching Sarah Palin I was struck by how much she reminded me of my ex-wife. A woman who once responded to the request of the fire department to cut 6 foot high dry brush as it was Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Draw the Line
A break from politics….which really busted up my music appreciation summer…and back to the catalog of Aerosmith. Aerosmith – Draw the Line – 1977 (Buy it) I’ve listened to this record twice now. Once at a coffee shop and again on a ride home. Both times I had a dramatic Continue Reading
An Olbermann Special Comment
It’s full of invective and vitriol. He spews and spits. I am sort of loathe to post it because it’s SO partisan. But, at this time, when we Obamacrats are feeling…a little lost and like our guy maybe can’t get to the finish line, I thought, what the hell. After Continue Reading
Journalists doing their job? WTF?
I noticed something interesting today. I was at the gym and I was watching CNN and Rick Sanchez (www.twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn) showed footage of John McCain using the term “Lipstick on a Pig”. Then I watched as Contessa Brewer on MSNBC wouldn’t let a question of hers go unanswered and spun.Then I Continue Reading
The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans made simple.
Republican: I want to talk to you about the differences between the parties but first you need to know: You’re an Asshole. You: What? R: You’re an asshole. We’ll get to the topic but first I need you to understand that you are an asshole and a moron. Got it? Continue Reading