I know I don’t normally talk about local Arizona politics on this blog, but recent state-wide idiocy has really gotten me up in arms. Arizona is one of this country’s last true bastions of Spaghetti Western libertarianism, where “get your government off my guns” meets “...

What is typical Vancouver music for the Cultural Olympiad?  I think it is the cultural fusion music of Andre Thibault and Qiu Xia He''s Silk Road Music! For Chinese New Year, Qiu Xia He and Andre Thibault organized a truly multicultural show, featuring many ethnic performers and musical styles ...

For Sunday April 11 , 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Brit Hum will be the host this week, interviewing the country’s two Presidents Bush. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama then has his roundtable. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory offers us an entertaining l...

Sunday, January 4, 2009 PREFACE: Opening ABC’s This Week, Israeli President Shimon Peres asserted that Israel had no desire to crush Hamas or occupy Gaza; rather, they wanted to eliminate terror. Next up for host George Stephanopoulos was Dick Durbin, who appeared to indicate that he would be ...

For Sunday, January 4, 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will discuss the first 100 Days of Dem Congress, 2009, with Steny Hoyer. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk to Senators Roland Burris (D-Illinois), Dick Durbin (same), and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). Meet the ...

This editorial cartoon ran in the Vancouver Sun, and has now been circulating the e-mails of certain Celtic/Gaelic-Canadian musicians....  with the added  quote: "The Islanders and Highlanders came to this country of Canada---- discovered, settled and governed it. Pipes are used for just a...

As the curtain comes down on 2008, it’s hard to let go. Political junkies couldn’t have asked for a better year — even news veteran David Broder dubbed the 2008 election the best he ever covered. Game-changing moments came from mainstream and new media outlets, traditional newsmaker interviews...

State Senator Gloria Romero It's all about MadProfessah's hood! Previously, I blogged about a scramble among prominent Latino politicians in Los Angeles that had started when word leaked that MadProfessah's congressman, U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA-31) had been offered a position in President Obama'...

The “trend toward dynasty politics” is getting out of hand, Charles Mahtesian argues in Politico. [Obama's] secretary of state will be Hillary Clinton, the wife of the former president. The Senate seat she’ll vacate is being pursued by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of a president and ...

[I used to write comedy until I put the lid on it when I left the old Prodigy online service a decade ago. I’m shaking off the rust as we speak, with little notice, but I’m having fun doing it anyway. This one is a song parody, a fantasy, about Obama believing that Rahm Emmanuel is Senat...