Posted on April 30, 2009
Please Don’t Squeeze The Libertarians!
NOTE: I wrote this in 2009. It’s 2015 now, and Ted Cruz is running for President in 2016, which makes it relevant again. I guess I knew the Tea Party was coming, but I thought they’d call themselves Libertarians. Semantics can be a pain when predicting the future.
There is a more threatening and pressing concern than the swine flu that sits, meaningly poised to strike at the hearts and minds of Americans – and that’s the creeping menace of Neo-Conservative converts to Libertarianism. It’s starting small, but if you’ll allow me to put on my Amazing Technicolor Prediction Hat, I’ll tell you what’s going to happen in the coming months and years. Spoiler Alert! Read More
Posted on April 28, 2009
One, Two, Swine Flu’s Coming For You…
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Having grown tired of scaring the bejeebus out of people with the mad cow disease from Europe, the media eventually moved on to the bird flu from China, which was supposed to wipe out all of humanity in the most bitter and horrific biblical plague since Egyptian pestilence and incurable boils, but which really only amounted to people poking fun at a bunch of terrified Asians wearing silly little doctor’s masks. Unfortunately for the talking heads of the world, however, the bird flu didn’t quite live up to expectations, and the world did not, in fact, come to an end. Sure, a lot of people have died from the bird flu, and a lot of people are still dying from it, but that’s all old news now. The sensation of the novelty has grown cold, and so we have come full circle from hoof to wing, and back to hoof again. Cloven, to be precise. Read More
Posted on April 22, 2009
Flame Retardant?
On the advice of a friend, I watched “Fireproof” a second time. This time around, I enabled the commentary track and sat back in my big, comfy chair for one hundred and twenty-two minutes of insight into Mike Seaver’s marital wisdom. I came away from it with my perspective slightly changed, and slightly strengthened at the same time. Go figure. Read More
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