Every year on this day, the Romans celebrated the founding of their great city by killing two goats and a dog, smearing the blood on the foreheads of two noble youths. The rite referred to Romulus and Remus, the Original Romans, half divine and half mortal, by Mars, out of Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, to […]

By the time the re-run of The Simpsons was over, the whole thing was wrapped up. I enjoyed the episode; it was the one where Crusty the Clown is framed for robbing the Quicky Mart by Sideshow Bob, whose voice is provided by the actor Kelsey Grammer. Kelsey has quite a back-story in his personal […]

Dr. Jack Wheeler, letter jacket and former man-eating tiger, Vietnam I slept in, since there was no point in getting all wrapped up in something only to have to drop it to go vote. Based on the 2000 election, I assumed the lines would be long, and I was out the door and padding down […]

Sukoy-30MK in flight The Obama campaign continued to hit the Clinton machine in the midriff yesterday, another victory, this one in Maine. Expectations were managed, and the loss was expected. Still, Senator Clinton sent her campaign manager packing in the biggest shake-up since the parade mounted up last year. Things are getting serious, and an […]

Bobby Seale on the cover of his Cookbook www.BobbyQueSeale.com There is alarm abroad in the land, and hope. This morning the balance is tilting toward the latter one, at least in Nebraska, Washington and Kansas. The money is going that way, too I have a sense that the country as a whole is ready for […]

Bobby Seale on the cover of his Cookbook www.BobbyQueSeale.com There is alarm abroad in the land, and hope. This morning the balance is tilting toward the latter one, at least in Nebraska, Washington and Kansas. The money is going that way, too I have a sense that the country as a whole is ready for […]

Oh, the wires burned last night! Romney quit, which did not surprise me, and I was distracted, trying to dig myself out of an editorial hole. I should have been working on the Spring issue of the publication I produce as volunteer labor. Instead, I was cropping pictures of the first concrete that is going […]

The commentary is starting to die down a bit, since the prospect of the coming months on the campaign trail is distressing at best. This area has the highest concentration of political commentators in the known universe, and even the local radio is awash with national-level discourse. The Liberals I listen to were all over […]

I stayed up too late last night, trying to figure out California. As if anyone could. Things in the dirt had erupted to alter the course of events in my little world, and I was having trouble coming to grips with it all. The dirt across the street at the George Schultz Foreign Service Training […]

The big screen in the living room- it is paid for- is barely cool from the late run on Sunday night. Today, it is going to heat up again when I get home from work to tally up the votes from the Super Primaries. Forty-three races in twenty-four states to pick over three thousand delegates […]