The past week has not showered our civilization in glory.  President Obama spent the greater part of an hour at the State of the Union address ignoring an nation’s economic tribulation with an impressively deaf ear to what sage pundit Mark Steyn calls “our unprecedented world record brokeness“.   Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich surveys the ever […]... Read More

     courtesy photobucket.com      President Obama took some chances this past week to stem what has been a progressive crumbling of support for his chances for re-election in 2012.  He embarked on a bus tour through the midwest to mingle with the people and try to stem the tide of bad karma. At one of […]... Read More

     On April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage, the greatest and most beautiful of the White Star class trans-Atlantic passenger ships, improbably shuttered briefly, in the late evening hours, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As alien and unsettling the shutter was, it was only briefly present and quickly was gone, […]... Read More

     The great Japanese theater tradition of Kabuki reflects a stylized avant garde theater of the bizarre to dramatize the juxtaposition of the inner and outer emotions of the participants.  Grand kabuki is going on these days regarding the debt ceiling “crisis” in Washington, and the lead actor of the bizarre is our president himself, […]... Read More