The eternal struggle between pragmatism and idealism was highlighted in a beautiful monologue in an episode of The Closer from its second season in December 2006 written by series creator James Duff. It came at the end of a two-part show about a Muslim boy in Los Angeles murdered by a KGB agent who had …
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Phaeton: the myth of Obama
I am surprised that so far no one has picked up on the similarity of Obama’s narrative to the one in Greek mythology of Phaeton, whose mother was an Ethiopian and whose father was Helios, the god of the sun. Like Obama, Phaeton succeeded in getting himself in charge of something for which he had …
The chilling explanation of why Obama is cool
Much is made of Obama’s so-called cool and calm demeanor and how this makes him superior to ordinary mortals who get emotional about stuff, and how this means he clearly has magic powers to keep all of his contradictory and often mutually-exclusive promises because if he didn’t, why, then we would know because he’d act …
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Mr. Obama, You're No Abe Lincoln
[This blog was born on January 12, 2009, and I took it down and put it up in different combinations of WordPress, Web hosting and domain names until I arrived here on January 25. But I didn’t re-post everything I had written. However, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was born 200 years ago today and Obama and …
Understanding Obama
I was tempted to title or subtitle this, “Time to Call a Spade a Spade,” but I’m just not as slippery as Obama in getting out of immature crap like his “lipstick on a pig” remark (which was so rehearsed and deliberate he closed his eyes to help himself remember it before delivering the line) …