Clay Bennett, the Chair of the ownership group which owns the Oklahoma City (OKC) Thunder, was a student at Cairo University during the early 1980s. At that time he was introduced into the community by his father's business associate (real … [Read more...]
On Getting A Warning, Or, For Just One Day, I’ll Be The CIA
"...The fact that you have sent him here just goes to prove that you are the leading...asshole in the state." --From the telegram complaining about the new Sheriff, in the movie "Blazing Saddles" So before we go any further, if you're just … [Read more...]
Social Security: Where’s Our Tahrir Square?
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! --William Makepeace Thackeray, from the "Vanitas Vanitatum" It's a simple point I make today: we want a Social … [Read more...]
On The View From Egypt, Part Six, Or, Let’s Review Where We Are
You know, David, there, there is a joke that went around Egypt for many years about Mubarak that he was on his death bed and an Egyptian delegation came to see him of the people. The nurse came in, said, "Mr. President, the … [Read more...]
On The View From Egypt, Part Five, Or, The Emergency Is Here
"My grandfather knew the exact time of the exact day of the exact year that he would die." "Wow, what an evolved soul! How did it come to him?" "The judge told him." --From "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...", Thomas Cathcart and … [Read more...]
On Done Deals, Or, Sometimes Losing Is How You Win
Bachmann response now on CNN. Turn to SAP Channel 3 for English captions. --A Tweet posted by pourmecoffee, immediately following the 2011 State of the Union address If you have been in any way awake and alert over the past 18 months or so, … [Read more...]
On Contradiction, Or, Will Obama Lose An Argument With Himself?
"He who was prepared to help the escaping murderer or to embrace the impenitent thief, found, to the overthrow of all his logic, that he objected to the use of dynamite" --From "The Dynamiter", by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De … [Read more...]
On Rugged Individualism, Or, Meet The Ghost Of Government Past
There is an unalterable rightness about the best Florentine paintings of the period. It is wholly lacking from the late works of Tintoretto. In the schoolmasterly phase, even his greatest pictures could be improved. Only it would need … [Read more...]
On Shame As A Tactic, Or, Betsie Gallardo: She Won…And So Can You!
Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; It has no equal. The weak can overcome the strong; The supple can overcome the stiff. Under heaven everyone knows … [Read more...]
Betsie Gallardo: We’re Doing Great So Far, But January 5th Is Key
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horror heavy sat on ev'ry mind. --Taken from "Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace", by John Dryden In … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- …
- 9
- Next Page »