After tonight’s presidential debate, it’s quite possible that I’ll also be watching Turner Classic Movies during the next and last (thanks!) debate, especially if they’ll have on Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times which was released in 1936, the year in which John McCain was born. My point is that the guy looks so out of it, especially [...]

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No. I didn’t know President Hoover. President Hoover was not my friend. But Senator McCain, you’re not Herbert Hoover.
I know. I know. After McCain had stated that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong,” even Chris Matthews compared McCain to the late and much maligned Republican President. But while I’ve never been a great fan of [...]

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He’ll be president

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In his column today, “McCain Loses His Head,” Will writes that McCain is “behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high,” that he makes comments “furiously, and apparently without even looking around at facts,” that his “childish reflex” demonstrates that he is “disconnected from knowledge and principle,” that “an old antagonism” is [...]

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I’ve been reading several commentaries drawing parallels between Bush’s old request from Congress to provide his first Alpha Male (“Rummy”) with an authority to attack Iraq and his new request that Congress allow his new Alpha Male (“Hank”) to spend US 700 billion — probably US 1 trillion — for bailing-out Wall Street. 
The parallels between 9/11 and 9/15 (the day [...]

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