As you know, the footage appeared live, as bodies began falling from the flaming and smoke-filled North Tower, as US Airlines Flight 175 was flown into the frame and South Tower at 0903, and as the South and North Towers collapsed at 0959 and 1028 respectively. You...
I'm pretty sure I'm the only Duck to (a) have lived at a state fair, (b) know the 4-H pledge by heart, and (c) have been quoted by the Watertown, S.D., newspaper on ... well, on any subject,...
Like many of my nerdy friends, I am eagerly awaiting the return of  the second half of this season's "House MD." But let's be honest, the show basically substitutes a flow chart for a plot. No one...
Earlier this year, all eyes were focused on Iceland in a very negative way for the second time in 18 months. First their banks collapsed in 2008 which caused many in Europe who had savings accounts...
Today, I took the family to the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. If you've never heard of Rogers, then you might want to learn. He was quite a man.Rogers was an entertainer, a writer, a public speaker, amateur philosopher, etc. In 1931, he went on the radio with President Herbert Hoover to talk about the Depression. He seemed truly troubled by what was happening: So here we are in a country with more wheat and more corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world—there’s not a product that you can name that we haven't got more of it than any other...
Perhaps the only response to reprehensible exclusivity, or to the appropriation of common rhetorical resources ('America') for purely partisan purposes, is satire:Unreality Is Expanding.The question is: is satire enough? One clearly can't argue with "real America" language, so what can one do except satirize it?