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The Hope Fix Mix
Caught myself this afternoon, just watching the Dow Jones steadily plummet. A stalled airplane, spiralling. An imminent train wreck in slow motion. This isn’t the end of the world, I know, but it feels like the end of something. There are a couple of analogies that have entered my mind in the last month or…
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Tin Roof, Collapsed
John Cornetta is shutting down his Love Shack in Johns Creek. While I’m sure that the silent powers of Johns Creek will quietly trumpet Cornetta’s departure as a victory of decency over indecency, I’m guessing that the man has simply over-extended his empire. After all, it was only last year that he was giving thought…
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Brother, Can You Spare A Gallon?
(Re-posted from a comment left at O. Willis.) Atlantans prefer driving over mass transit by a substantial margin. It could be argued that more of us would hop on MARTA if only the system were more expansive, rail especially. But take away our ability to hop in the car on a whim and go from…
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If Panderous Isn’t A Word, It Should Be
Senator McCain has picked Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. This strikes me as incredibly panderous, for one thing. It is as if he’s saying “See? She’s a woman! This way, you can vote for our side of the ticket and still make history!” This ignores, of course, Palin’s single term of experience as…
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A Brighter Future In 8-Bits
This is awesome. Click on through for the full image and the story behind it. And it goes without saying that I want this on a t-shirt. Now.
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Avoiding That Rhetorical Bermuda Triangle
Jay Smooth is the host of WBAI’s Underground Railroad and maintains the IllDoctrine video-blog. In his latest video, he offers advice of a quality rarely heard these days, much less in a YouTube video. His topic: How to Tell People They Sound Racist. Now I’m wondering, is this advice transferable to other similar conversations? Does…
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Eight Long Seconds
Eight seconds can be a very long time. For a rodeo champion, it can seem like an eternity. For John McCain, it might as well be forever. The question asked and the answer given have been discussed so much already, but that delay just kills me. And the eye-roll! Dear God, the eye-roll!
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Ignorance About Slavery
As someone who volunteers about 400 hours of his life per year to a cause he holds dearly, allow me to say that Jonah Goldberg is a complete and utter idiot. It’s one thing to be a pundit, even to be a pundit for the sake of punditry, but quite another to be willfully ignorant…
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No Apologies Necessary
A brief lesson in Constitutional content. Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States specifies the qualifications or requirements that make one eligible to hold the office of President. These are as follows: No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the…
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Cold Callers And The Occasional Perils Of Assumption
I have no love for cold callers. You know them by their anonymity, when the Caller ID offers an unhelpful “Unknown Number” or “Unknown Caller.” Their timing is usually quite charming, like when you’re about to sit down for dinner, or when they call on Saturday morning, before even the coffee has time to finish…