I am not quite sure what I am campaigning for… …but I certainly appear to be…

After Barack Obama’s election, one of the jokes that I most frequently made was… “After the next 8 years of unqualified success, I will still somehow run for and be elected president to succeed his two already wonderful terms.” This is to make light of the fact that even before the election was final, the […]

Inauguration Day. An emotional day. Indeed… Let us let it cloud our judgment of the president, his government, and their actions. Distracted and empowered by the horrors of the preceding King, and warmed by the kind, moral words of a forceful, confident tone – an authority that has to, just has to be true – […]

Revenge Politics n: a practice by which one political faction’s capricious or otherwise questionable policies and actions are fueled by or rationalized by an opposing faction’s previous transgressions of the same order, alternatingly favoring one class or segment of the population above the other, creating a vicious, compounding cycle of unprincipled government to the detriment […]