We have more than a sufficiency today of instance of domestic, national, and international tragedies.   We have a serious dearth of comedy, so serious that we have to search long and hard and look to serio-comedy, a tragic-comedic blend, for some balance.

We are favored today with few if any true, individual tragedies since we are blessed with few if any, true heroic figures who are requisites for classical tragedy.  As rare as comedy is, tragicomedies must be employed as another source to lighten the mood.

As a respite from the usual, we present a variety of current examples of … Read the rest

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As the Obama administration enters its second hundred days, the internet, the blogosphere, and that other source of news, information, and opinion–the dying mass media–are awash with people voicing their many and varied opinions on the success or failure of those days.

In a way, it’s unfair to pass judgement so soon on a new president since 14+ weeks is hardly sufficient time to draw valid conclusions.  Obama himself doesn’t think so, however, and is using the 100-day milestone to toot his own horn in the Midwest, after which he jets back to Washington to do some more tooting on … Read the rest

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“The war on terror cannot be won.”  The U.S. “is the main obstacle to a stable and just world.”  American troops are “perpetrators” and “oppressors.” “The war on drugs is doing more harm to our society than drug abuse itself.” 

Words spoken by bin Laden or Harry Reid?  No.  By Vlad Putin or John Murtha?  Nope.  By Hugo Chavez or Fidel?  Nah.  By a Mexican drug lord or Robert Downey?  Wrong again.  They are just some of the collected words of leftist wisdom spewed by a defeatist, America-hating, bizarre individual who goes by the name of George Soros    http://www.americanissuesproject.org/soros.… Read the rest

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Abortion may be America’s most uncomfortable topic of discussion but its very unpopularity makes it that more important to discuss it.  Ignoring the gory details of abortion “procedures”   and not publicizing those in the public eye who facilitate abortions won’t make the subject go away and will only exacerbate it.

Most politicians such as former president Clinton spout the tired line that they believe everything possible should be done to reduce the number of abortions–now up to 50,000,000 and counting since Roe v Wade–and then resort to various subterfuges to foster abortion. Many pols and non- pols seem oblivious of … Read the rest

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I freely concede I’m no movie critic with no pretense of being a Siskel, an Ebert, or a Roeper.  I like movies with some action, a shot of titilating romance, involving mixed genders, preferably devoid of leftist propaganda and homosexual themes. Unlike television sitcoms, locating such films is still possible, if increasingly difficult, to find.  Despite many reviews to the contrary, Frost/Nixon isn’t one of them.

I have no clue as to why it was honored with 5 Golden Globes and 5 Academy Award nominations except that those tributes were more reflective of Hollywood’s sharp liberal, leftist bent than the … Read the rest

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Call Al Gore whatever you want, the Goracle, Algore, Albore, Al-the-Liar, Al-the-Fraud, or any of his other less-than-complimentary nicknames, you have to give him one thing: He’s consistent.  He’s like an annoying, dripping faucet and he’s especially consistent in his perfected, exasperated sighing when confronted by a serious question or issue raised by someone who hasn’t signed on to his pre-fabricated, “Inconvenient Lie.” 

President Obama’s unofficial, un-designated point man for the global warming/global cooling/climate change scam dredged up a sigh of epic proportions last Friday when rudely asked by a fellow Tennessean, GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, if he were stuffing … Read the rest

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Perez Hilton,   aka Mario Armando Levandeira, Jr.,  may have chosen his nom de blog in a vain attempt to latch on to the cache’ associated with the Hilton hotel clan and such super-twits as Paris Hilton.  If so and regrettably, for Perez, he struck out in the cache’ quest; he makes Paris seem classy in comparison. 

How he came up with “Perez” is anyone’s guess, maybe because it sounds somewhat hispanically exotic, the only thing exotic about him, except for his turquoise head.   Whatever the source, he missed that boat, too.  I’ll just call him PH for the acidity/alkalinity factor, … Read the rest

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               ARMENIA                                                         

Tomorrow, April 25, 2009, should be a bright, sparkling spring day in New York City, much brighter and far more sparkling than April 24th, 1915. 

That day, 94 years ago, began the first genocide of the twentieth century when Turkish troops initiated the brutal slaughter of the Armenian people with the intent of effecting their total extermination.  The Muslim Turks failed to achieve totality but after two long, bloody years they did succeed in murdering a million and a half people, almost half the Christian Armenian population. 

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, commemorating the beginning of that forgotten … Read the rest

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Clairol’s old ad asked the tantalizing question, “Does she, or doesn’t she?” posing the Earth-shaking question of whether some woman dyed her hair or not but subliminally asking all kinds of other questions about said woman and what she does and doesn’t do.

The title question, “Will she, or won’t she?” is similarly packed with innuendo but related to significantly more profound import, namely, Will Israel attack Iran before Iran   is nuclear-capable and missile-capable of reducing much of Israel to a glowing, molten puddle.

The stakes are incredibly high, not only for the State of Israel   but for the United … Read the rest

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Macho, macho man!  What abs!  What pecs!  What a lot of BS! 

The Washingtonian’s May issue features a shot of our “hot” president on its cover, much like these      except that the magazine “caught him” with sunglasses looking even cooler and hotter.

Gimme a break! to quote the old sitcom.  Is this what we’ve become, a nation of “bobby soxers” and groupies drooling over a president of the United States as if he were some brainless, drug-addled rock star? 

Actually, that’s not too far from the truth.  Our chief executive, the commander in chief of our armed forces, ostensible leader … Read the rest

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