(Yes, I also write about popular culture.) So James Cameron is the man who gave us Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley, two characters I never hesitate to recommend to anyone, regardless of gender, as epitomes of heroic badassery. For Connor there are just two words, scratched in a picnic table in the desert- “No Fate.” …
Tag: ek Politics
Jan 16 2018
House Or Hole? Does It Matter?
You know, I actually saw the Commodores in concert long after they were even a D-List ticket (New Year’s is not the same without Kathy Griffin and Andersen, your boyfriend is a dope). Actually, although I’ve been given free reign to demonstrate my 20 year old vocabulary (I swear, I took an Internet survey!) I …
Jan 15 2018
Every Day Is Exactly The Same.
Have I mentioned I’m a Buddhist recently? Not as a religion, more as a philosophy. I believe I can see the future because I repeat the same routine. I think I used to have a purpose, then again, that might have been a dream. I think I used to have a voice. Now I never …
Jan 15 2018
Birmingham Jail
Fifty years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Room 306. Now we have an avowed racist in the White House. Some people think between his death and that of Robert Kennedy it was the end of hope. I agree. The King family and others believe the …
Jan 10 2018
Remember LIBOR?
LIBOR stands for the London Inter Bank Offered Rate, supposedly the average interest rate given by Mega Banks to their most credit worthy customers, other Mega Banks, for short term loans. There are a lot of short term loans out there for those who are interested in them, companies such as Friendly Finance provide supplementary …
Jan 09 2018
He Can’t See You Right Now. He’s With The Orchids.
I have been accused of being as rigid about schedules as Nero Wolfe as well as weighing as much which is absurd. He is a seventh of a ton and I a mere tenth (What?! You’ve never heard of Nero Wolfe? Get thee to a library or book store). Nero nevertheless has a routine that …
Jan 08 2018
Trumpies Postponed!
Say it ain’t so Joe (that would be ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, not ‘Joltin’ Joe’ Dimaggio). From Politico– Donald Trump said on Sunday that the “fake news awards” he teased recently will be postponed, saying interest had exceeded his expectations. “The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, …
Jan 07 2018
The Stupid, It Burns!
In 1854 a Medical Scientist, Dr. John Snow, was able to isolate an outbreak of Cholera in London to a single public water supply on Broad Street. Now Cholera is nasty and it comes out both ends. It’s not necessarily fatal (though it can be) if you treat the symptoms and replace the water and …
Jan 04 2018
Republican Morality
LePage sends welfare cash to after-school programs to curb ‘out-of-wedlock pregnancies’ By Matthew Stone, Bangor Daily News January 4, 2018 This school year, Gov. Paul LePage’s administration is spending $1.7 million on after-school programs that once would have gone to low-income families with children in the form of cash assistance. The administration has described the …