I think to myself, 'Okay, it's been a year; you can come home now, you've made your point.'

But it isn't home and there wasn't a point to make.

Nightmares are always unique, but my halcyon dreams are always of you.

I'm the Phineas Gage of the unconscious.

I read two of my father's novels this week ( Read more... )

When I see litter on the street I think of you.

Memo to AIG:

When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.

Love,

US Department of the Treasury

Thanks, President Bush.

Good luck, President Obama.

You know what would be nice?

If the collectivist wing bulk of the Republican party and their spokeshole machinery would hew to their "respect" for federalism and let California sort out the prop 8 aftermath without too much bleating ( Read more... )

Your incapacity is not a blank check on my ability. You can't have my stuff.

And I don't want any of yours.

Why is the progressive income tax grist for invective against Obama, but Sarah Palin's complicity in the shakedown of the oil companies working in Alaska okay? If it's wrong for the government to club individuals with income tax for distribution purposes, then by some very simple logic its wrong for the state of Alaska to club other "hard-working ( Read more... )

"If American politics is at low ebb, it is because so many of its observers enjoy working in its fetid backwash."

*cough*