Gorky Rises

I’m very happy about the election. I’ve been voting for 28 years and this is only my second win. I blame the candidates our side put up (some were truly piss poor). But for eight years, my side of the argument has been told to sit down and shut up because right wing, conservatives were [...]

Flying back to Kuwait after my whirlwind weekend. I was out before the polls opened and I will touch ground around midnight tonight US time. By the time I get off the plane, we should have a new President. Thank god I won’t have to listen to the steady stream of predictions that should start [...]

Sarah Palin is nothing but one of those “golly-gosh-set-a-spell-have-a-beer-let’s-shoot-somethin’” local bumpkins the either party brings out every few years when they need a gimmick to win. She is an old, well worn political hack-trick who usually has about as much substance as tissue paper. It is extremely cynical and very annoying… but sometimes dangerous. I [...]

That’s what $700 Billion must be these days. Something you just find under the sofa. Stuffed in that Lincoln-head cookie jar. 700 trillion pennies (?). That’s why it should only take Congress (that fast-acting entity in DC) seven days to agree to spend it. For a country whose currency is scrapping the floor, we certainly [...]

wow… And it’s not even October… As they said on Hill Street Blues – “Be careful out there.” Say – who do you think is going to pay for all these bailouts? Could it be the “lower taxes” mantras on both sides are just so much crap at this point? How do you pay for [...]

First – Thank God they are over. Second – The only bit of the Dems I watched was Obama’s speech the morning after. So I watched just McCain’s speech as well (at least up until the point where he started “My opponent will raise taxes! My opponent will increase government! My opponent will suckle terrorists!” [...]

In honor of the free-wheeling, gaudy circus about to descend on Denver (and no, I don’t mean Madonna’s “Sticky Sweet” Tour – though you would be forgiven for thinking that…), I would like to introduce you to the newest candidate on the national stage – Thomas Stiles Stevens. It seems young Mr. Stevens is running [...]

I was watching an interview this morning with one of Bush’s former douchebag appointments, John Bolton. The interview was on Al Jazeera, no less. Bolton was our ambassador to the U.N. for a mercifully brief period of time. He had the great brain damage to say that complaining about the US actions in Iraq is [...]

I want to vote now. No, I mean right NOW! So Obama is a rock star…. in Germany. (What’s next – big in Japan?) McCain is in a war of Words… with Paris Hilton and her Mom. (And Nicole Ritchie has stopped eating again.) Please make it stop. Imagine what we can descend to in [...]

And what was the point of Hillary’s comment the other day? “Hey – somebody could get assassinated. It happens. So, I’m still in the race.” So is she uber-desperate or simply bat-shit crazy? Either way: After that comment, you know she’s drinking…

In the “people who live in glass houses” catagory, I think the Hill-meister needs to kill all the talk about Obama’s indicted donor. That guy and the measly amount of cash that needed to be returned is NOTHING compared to the mammoth grocery list of shady characters the Clintons have partied with over the years. [...]

Ok – first let me reiterate a truth I have mentioned here before: Politics Suck. There are two constants in politics – the candidate’s lust for power and money and the voters getting the shaft regularly. However, with Super-Duper-Pooper Tuesday almost upon us, I feel the need to offer these words of endorsement: Vote for [...]