If you’re old enough, you know exactly what I meant by the reference to “American Pie” in the title. If you’re not, then just substitute “Born in the USA,” or maybe “Staying Alive” instead. Every once in a while,...
Sometimes it’s almost hard to wrap your head around. It was only 29 days ago that we all hit the bricks for the polling places in the midterms, and yet, here we all are, officially on “candidate watch” for...
This certainly brings back memories. Wally and The Beaver, as Geraldine Ferraro was characterized, the first female to be on a ticket as vice president. And that glaringly awful election night map is seared into my memory, dear God:...
Every election is different. There are different candidates, different issues, and different personalities and scandals to consume and digest. But just as every election is different, so is every election the same in some ways. Until this one.
Elections in...
Well hell, if there’s one thing I hate, it’s coming off looking like an idjit, but as Britney Spears sings,:Ooops, I did it again.” For years now, I’ve been ridiculing the end-of-days nuts, and survivalist goofballs who blow their...
As a trauma victim from Election Day 2016 I find myself in a state of high anxiety since waking up yesterday. This morning my concentration is shot, but Rick Wilson does have a few simple rules that perhaps may...
This is your intrepid reporter Murfster35, coming to you live from Vegas beach. The media missiles are flying overhead with increasing frequency, the battle is in doubt, but the body count won’t be known until November 6th.
Here we are,...
OK, this is just getting ridiculous. I’m not even going to say “I’m old enough to remember” because this didn’t happen all that fucking long ago! Many of you can remember when “Black Friday” meant that people lined up...
Political theater in the United States is a spectacle that is watched worldwide, because of our stature in the world. Whomever occupies the Oval Office is the star, the man (and so far that’s all it has been) who...
Political polling is one of the dark arts, “cloaked in a kind of scientific mysticism that sometimes feels deliberately opaque.” Everybody from Donald Trump to legitimate political journalists are known to take the result of one or two polls...
