Chicago, August, 1968
(My daughter, who was not quite four years old at the time, asked me recently to talk about the 1968 Chicago convention for her children who are living thru this […]
Category Archives: politics
Leak This
What we Democrats lack is thugs. We’ve got everything else we need. There are plenty of us and the technology is fine. Money? No problem. Issues? Don’t even start. On […]
Making Power
Much of the discussion of politics and policy — on the left mostly, because the the right is just nasty — much of the talk just seems so naive…. foolish. […]
Tom’s tired
Bear with me. This started when my friend Keith sent me a right-wing screed called “I’m Tired”, an old fart doing an Andy Rooney number. You know, down with Obama, […]
Being civil
Lots of kerfuffle about President Obama dissing the Supreme Court during the State of the Union. Oh, my. but really, he fits right in. Letterman, O’Brien and Leno are being […]
Party w/o a Soul
I got a live call from the DNCC, fund hustling arm of Dems in Congress. Told the nice lady that I didn’t trust them and was giving money only to […]
