When Joni Met Chachi Charlie
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) Or Sleepless 700 Miles From Dallas. To quote my fellow Bay State scribe Charlie Pierce, "Well, this didn't end well."...
View ArticleWe Were Had
That awkward moment when... #Gruber#Grubergatepic.twitter.com/mI8TIp94uI— Robert Crawford (@jurassicpork59) November 14, 2014(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari.) ObamaCare, to put...
View ArticleCongressional Cassandras
This shouldn't have come as any surprise to anyone who knows anything about the GOP. The nanosecond the "party of personal responsibility" found out they were going to dominate the entire...
View ArticleChris Kyle: An Inhuman Interest Story
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan. on loan from Ari.) In all fairness, you have to give Clint Eastwood credit. For a man who lives a relatively quiet and private personal life, he always finds a...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why Mitt Romney Won't Run for President in 2016
Perennial Republican contender Mitt Romney has recently decided that he will not seek the presidency for a third time in 2016. His reason, as he told potential investors supporters in a conference...
View ArticleTo Resurrect a Mockingbird
(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan. on loan from Ari.) After a 55 year-long silence, Harper Lee is publishing a sequel to her classic To Kill a Mockingbird. From just a purely literary viewpoint,...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Blogger Stops By
Hello, Seekers! It's been quite a long time since Your Humble Hostess has written on this here blog. If the truth be told, I have had little inclination to write about the things I used to. Grief is...
View ArticleWe are privileged to be alive today
In our all-too-short lives, we are lucky if we have the privilege to be present for a moment in our history that shows us at our best. There aren't many of them, but today is one. Oh, there is...
View ArticleThe Man Who Poisoned America
The man who supposedly apologized to the relatives of some of the nine victims of his tainted peanuts seemed at stark odds with the executive who'd fired off an email to a manager alerting him to...
View ArticleVirtual Book Sale
At the risk of this sounding like whining, there's nothing more disspiriting than spending upwards of two and a half years on a single book then seeing it sell less than two dozen copies, hardly...
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