Author: Curmudgette

Will the Chicken-Hawk-in-Chief never tire of hiding behind our troops? Follow the pretzel logic if you will. We must attack Iran in order to “protect our troops.” At Rice’s Senate appearance in January,...

Let us do a postmortem on the archetype of the warrior king. We shall have no more great leaders, tested in the cauldron of battle. Today’s leaders let the peasantry do all the fighting and the dying for the advancement of...

I’m someone else. I’m white… white… WHITE! — Imitation of Life (1959) Some years ago I worked with a woman, of Jamaican descent, who could have been fairly described as a light-skinned black woman....

A few weeks ago, I almost fell out of my chair when I heard Hilary Clinton tell Keith Olbermann that she had opposed preemptive war with Iraq at the time. Not only did she say it with a straight face, she breezed through the...

The New York Daily News is one of a handful of news venues to pick up on a key revelation in the New Yorker’s recent profile of “24”. The show was approached by military and FBI leaders, who asked them to stop...