The Hustle

The more I look -- dispassionately -- at these concomitant issues, I'm starting to feel that the attacks of 9/11 were the catalyst that allowed American faux-machismo to do ourselves in. We've helped to have the chickens come home to roost.

Someone said "you only have to make a fortune once." Well it seems some have taken that maxim to heart, and made a fortune and nothing else of value, and you and I are left holding the bag.

At the end of the day, if you're a partisan, you left feeling better about your guy's VP choice, on both sides. If you're an independent or undecided, you probably leaned left to Biden. And all of us -- the left and right alike -- are happy that Mrs. Palin didn't embarass the nation collectively with a laughably bad performance.

Like most things American, crisis is always somehow laid at the feet of the person with color. This wasn't a crisis of color or class, it was a crisis of stupidity, and greed. And last I checked, greed and avarice had no discernable color.

"A banana republic with nukes" is what Paul Krugman of the New York Times called the United States. A Banana Republic, indeed.

Seems Mr. McCain is trying to pull a Jedi mind trick with this gimmick. But hopefully the Luke Skywalker's, Princess Leia's and Han Solo's of the Obama campaign and the people's nation will strike back, and expose this insidious plot.

We're going to get royally screwed by this legislation. Giving away authority to spend over $700 billion completely without oversight?!

It's been a long time! But I'm back...And boy, do I have a lot to talk about!

A simple song, with a simple solution to a complex world.

What better than a legendary Chicago-House/Disco classic, that for real house-heads (like me) will get one into a full-fledged jumping, kicking, and twirling frenzy: Pam Todd & Love Exchange's "Let's Get Together."