Monthly Archives: January 2012

And Then There Were Four

Front-runner Mitt Romney has a fight on his hands in the GOP South Carolina primary. Texas governor Rick Perry decision to drop out of the race has strengthened two of his challenger ie Rick Santorum and Newt Gringich without helping libertarian Ron Paul. With two days left before voting the race is too close to […]

Gra-nam Gra-nam Gra-nam

Last week the Thai police arrested a suspect purportedly planning to bomb the Bangkok Habad center and Khao San restaurants popular with Americans and Israelis. The US embassy issued a heightened alert on its website. January 13, 2012 This message alerts U.S. citizens in Thailand that foreign terrorists may be currently looking to conduct attacks […]

NO NO NO NO by Scott McKenzie

I was thinking too much of the possible recall of Scott Walker today. I recalled a 60s singer doing a cover of the French hit “La Poupée qui fait non” and thought that Scott Walker had reprieved the 1966 hit. I have to admit I was only 50% wrong. Scott McKenzie was the artist, although […]

Recall Scott

T here are 70 people named Scott Walker in Wisconsin and one of them in governor. Last December Governor Walker had ridiculed a petition for a recall election by asserting the ‘Mickey Mouse’ signatures did not count and neither did multiple signings. He cited a classic GOP mantra of the Silent Majority by saying, “For […]

Asshole of 2011

TIME magazine’s Person of the Year was the protestor. Governments in Egypt and Tunisia were ousted by people fed up with the status quo of the few rich ruling of the many poor. The western media attempted to portray this change as the seeds of democracy, but were surprised by faceless protestors in America assailing […]