(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
A good friend recently sent me this remarkably appropriate cartoon: Wanting to include proper attribution, I did a little research. Turns out that this is the work of David Sipress and it’s not at all new. In fact, the cartoon dates back to the Clinton administration and even Sipress doesn’t remember where it was originally…
“And remember, Florida’s easier than other places. You have the ocean and you have the sun. There’s something about that that works. But — you have the sun, too, but you don’t have the ocean. I can tell. You definitely don’t have the ocean. Maybe someday you’ll have the ocean, you never know.” – The…
A friend just texted me about a Florida woman who was arrested on Tuesday for throwing wine at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). This is now the second time that Gaetz has been the public target of projectile liquids. While I admittedly find both incidents quite humorous, I’m frankly torn with respect to the appropriateness of…
I just read a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal written by one Gary Geipel. Seems Gary was all bent out of shape about the registration process for the Sundance Film Festival currently underway in Utah. He was so irritated that he wrote an associated rant entitled “The Sundance Film Festival Loyalty Oath”…
While I will continue to post on this blog, I will be pausing my use of Twitter to reference future blog posts. I have multiple reasons: I have serious concerns about the direction of the platform under Elon. It’s a bit of a pain. There’s just not that many people that follow my minimalist Twitter…
I want to plug an eight-episode podcast that just concluded this week, available on your platform of choice. “Ultra” is an absolutely fascinating, exceptionally well-researched, deep dive into an all-but-forgotten and, unfortunately, all-too-true chapter in American history. There’s that oft-repeated aphorism whose original form was likely “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to…
I’d set aside this afternoon to gleefully sit in front of my TV with my laptop to follow the launch and first flight phases of Artemis I. Alas, the launch was scrubbed yet again due to a fuel leak. You’d think I’d learn. Given my new-found time, I started reviewing numerous in-progress blog posts on…
My last post prompted several readers to note (and I’m paraphrasing here) that they were surprised to read something from me that wasn’t accompanied by a large black cloud. Damn. While I readily admit that my Scotch glass is often half-empty, I hate being predictable. To demonstrate that I haven’t always been the curmudgeon that…
Today is the one-year anniversary of Parenthetical Politics. I wondered at the start if the frequency of my blog posts would have an exceptionally long wavelength. However, with 66 posts over the past year, I averaged well over one post a week. Not bad for a hobby that mostly serves as my online pressure release…
Understatement of the Year: “He’s a different kind of a guy but they say I’m a different kind of a guy, too.” – Donald Trump on Boris Johnson Today, Boris Johnson was elected as the new leader of the Tory party and will thus become Britain’s next Prime Minister. Johnson is a right-wing anti-intellectual who…