It's a pity when good candy goes bad. It sits on the shelf and its once sweet shell begins to break down into its essential chemicals, it's snappy nougat becomes flinty and flakey and its eye-catching wrapper fades and becomes brittle.

Sic Semper Zagnutis.

When Bill and Hill presided over...

So now she's gotten mean and he's gotten weak. And the disappointment is palpable in both their faces.

Oh, for the heady days months ago when there stood before us a virtually intact, ready-to-go cabinet of intellects, activists, statespersons and progressive Americans, each with passion, zeal and breadth of knowledge...

The Huffington Post reports that the media's only now turned away from Obama. But did you really think for one minute the MSM would let it be otherwise?

The obviousness with which the media has historically evaded stories about Armenia, the Holocaust, East Timor, Cambodia, Darfur, the oligarchic...

Yay! More of the same! No real change at all! Cynicism and division rule! Huzzah! Vivat! Ya-frikkin'-hoo!

And I almost forgot I was an American for a second.

Perhaps "audacious" really is how to describe it. Because anyone who tries to lift the leaden, bullying, tribal, grunting dialogue (which...

That Mainstream Media is one crafty critter, an exemplar of Darwinian perseverance. It's secured a place at the top of the food chain by seducing its rivals, secreting a soporific perfume to subdue its prey, sinking its fangs into the main artery of the body politic, draining said body of...

If one were to evaluate -- for the umpteenth time -- George Bush's presidency over the last eight years, it would most likely be graded with a colossal, red, angrily scrawled F, the presidency along with an overarching American policy having been remade in Bush's own fatally imperfect, inconceivably incurious...

With all the to-do about who would make the most effective leader (especially after eight years with George "Huh?" Bush drunk at the tiller) and the genuine excitement among many about a possible Obama administration, there might still be validity in the following bleak consideration:

It's silly to think that...

Has anybody actually taken the time to watch Rev. Wright's much maligned sermon in its entirety? The one that the MSM's diced and sliced and handed out like amphetamine-laced communion to its maddeningly impressionable flock? It's there, right on that cyber-commons otherwise known as YouTube.

Yeah, there's all manner...

You know what? It's not Orwellian. It's not a conspiracy of the Illuminati. It's not even Operation Northwoods or Halliburton or The Carlyle Group or Poppy weeping because all along it should have been the smart one, Jeb. It's none of the things that make the colossal failure that is...

It's becoming more crystalline every day that a stirring of the soul yields more than a heart full of fear.

Barack Obama's abilities as a leader are gleamingly apparent as his wisdom, eloquence and brilliance stand in stunning contrast to the deadening vacuum of the Bush years and their litany...

"...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor." ----Mark Twain

As the eight years of failed Republican-lead policy threatens to crest at epic heights, swamping...

The spectacle of the media manipulating its wrung-out genitalia with one hand while wagging its finger at the object of its arousal with the other fully illustrates the command shallow salaciousness has over the news cycle. Once again suggesting that the defining characteristic of modern western culture is a slavering...

We've already had eight years of a president who throws entire populations under the bus. Why in the hell would we want another president who'd do the same? And then cannibalize the remains? All to win, win, win?

Yecch.

With every passing minute, Hillary demonstrates more overt desperation...

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach...

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The dreaming man kicked...

Look, it's simple: if Hillary's ready and experienced, why the hell is she losing ground, credibility and support day by day to her lesser equipped, less experienced, hollow dreamer of a rival?

And if restoring the reputation of America, if unifying its disenfranchised, underrepresented and undervalued citizens, if taking...

Geez, I almost forgot: where's Dick Cheney?

Our esteemed VP?

Here, Dick!

So visible, always willing to help out.

An inspiration. A leader.

He's where he's always been: in the center of his circular desk at SMERSH headquarters compulsively applying aloe to his dried and...

Here comes the Goya-esque moment where the giants bludgeoning each other, stuck knee deep in sludge, begin to spatter the tiny people at their feet with blood, bile and bilge. While it's never a shock that as the tighter presidential candidates are squeezed the more their froth-flecked teeth are bared,...

A postscript to "Tumbling Dice": after having had ongoing conversations since the last Democratic debate, I just want to add a few further thoughts. While I came away from the evening thinking Hillary "won," after a lot of back and forth with my fellow cranks, I think in the end...

So it comes down to a roll of the dice.

Clinton and Obama showed themselves to be everything the Republican candidates aspire to and insist they are but will never be, given their mad aversion to introspection and their inability to utter basic truths. Watching those guys on a...

Young guy, handsome, rugged, athletic, breaks into movies, wherever he goes people know his name and face. Has genuine talent, got the world on a string, everything an actor could want. A family. A future.

And then he's dead. Too young. Too soon. Standard story.

From early silent...