Archive for October, 2009
29 Oct
Blame George!
25 Oct
Stereotypes
On a more personal note this time… It occurs to me that by venting my political frustrations at the same time I’m inviting people to listen to my musical compositions, I may be working at cross purposes. Read my posts including cartoons, and you’ll quickly realize that I’m a conservative. Knowing that, how many visitors [...]
11 Oct
Obama’s Ubiquity
Dwight – 10/11/09 While trying to explain President Obama’s constant speech-making, TV, radio, and magazine appearances even when it seems not to advance his agenda, I gradually realized that this is an application by the Obama administration of Marshall McLuhan’s famous theory that “the medium is the message.” Imagine you are an extraterrestrial sociologist traveling [...]
5 Oct
Deputies and “Czars”
Why has President Obama appointed so many “Czars” who are unaccountable to anyone but him? Besides creating a mechanism for pushing programs in multiple fields outside public awareness (goal number one), it’s an ideal way for him to maintain “plausible deniability.” When election time rolls around, anything that didn’t get done or didn’t work out [...]
2 Oct
ACORN
There’s much controversy these days about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the place where President Obama got much of his early experience and training. Supporters of ACORN plead that it does good work for the poor. Critics charge that it’s set up as a criminal enterprise. Lately, the critics have made [...]
