Romney to Detroit: Drop Dead
During the Michigan primary in January, former Massachusetts Governor and son of auto magnate Mitt Romney blasted John McCain for saying he didn't want to raise "false hopes that somehow we can bring...
View ArticleA Modest Automaker Bailout Proposal
I propose here an entirely new bailout loan plan with its own unique set of conditions for the Big 3 automobile manufacturers. It's a good plan and one that must be allowed to succeed. Therefore, as...
View ArticleHesiod tries to make sense of The Prisoner reboot [SPOILERS]
Now that AMC's ambitious Prisoner mini series is over -- and I have watched and re-watched it several times in order to make sense of it -- I think I have answers to most of the questions that were...
View ArticlePETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
AMC has hinted that they may not make room on their schedule for Season 5 of Mad Men until 2012 and the prolonged negotiations between AMC and Lionsgate further threaten Mad Men in 2011. Maybe no Don...
View ArticlePETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
(I'm reposting this because...Don Draper, Peggy, Joan, best show on TV, you and what army is gonna stop me?) AMC has hinted that they may not make room on their schedule for Season 5 of Mad Men until...
View ArticlePETITION: BRING BACK MAD MEN IN 2011!
(I'm reposting this because...Don Draper, Peggy, Joan, best show on TV, you and what army is gonna stop me?) AMC has hinted that they may not make room on their schedule for Season 5 of Mad Men until...
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The AMC Pacer -- Chariot of the Gods?
Who can not love the AMC Pacer? The Leisure Suit on Wheels, the glassine bolus of dorkiness? Win a car at your hardware store back when He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) by Tony...
View ArticleKansas closer to drowning the beast
I know there are a lot of smart people in Kansas. It's just that they tend not to manage a legislative majority there. The latest examples of Kansas-being-Kansas are staggering. Take for example the...
View ArticleThe haves, the have-mores and Mitt Romney
Back in October 2000, then-Gov. George W. Bush regaled the crowd at the Al Smith dinner. "This is an impressive crowd—the haves and the have-mores,” Bush joked, adding, “Some people call you the...
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Romney throws wife and father under the bus
By most accounts, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a devoted father, dedicated family man and committed church leader. But as his record sadly shows, Romney's family values often take a...
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The Father, the Son and the Holy Vote
One of the inevitable developments of any modern presidency is the "psycho-history" cottage industry. That is, academics, physicians, amateur psychologists and dishonest partisans predictably produce...
View ArticleWhen Private Equity Firms get to play by a different set of rules ...
Money may not be able to buy you Love -- but it sure can buy you a lot of Competitive Advantage, when it comes to taking-over the small-fry companies, who'd rather just be left alone.It's rarefied air...
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Welcome The Walking Dead
AMC depicts a world overrun by the undead, the nations reduced to rubble and decay. In the aftermath of a world-wide pandemic, mindless zombies are the majority while the living are awkwardly the...
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"I want to be a Ninja!"
"I want to be a Ninja!" That's what my four-year-old son said as he handed me his costume this morning. Eli likes to dress up in various guises all year long, Halloween etiquette be damned. I looked...
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Breaking Bad's Walter White Rips Rush Limbaugh a New One
El Rushenberg Rush Limbaugh is a BIG FAN of the TV series Breaking Bad. As he is also a very big fan of himself, the right wing talk show host attempted to take credit for the success of the show...
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Mad Men: A Day's Work (7.2)
Sola Bamis as Shirley and Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson There is a comfort in childhood innocence. The world seems huge, everything seems to make sense and there's an order to it, if only because mommy...
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Mad Men: The Strategy (7.6)
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson and Jon Hamm as Don Draper in AMC's Mad Men What is a family, and what is a family supposed to be? Sociologists have produced reams of information on that question. All of...
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The Walking Dead: No Sanctuary (5.1)
Melissa McBride as Carol and Chad L. Coleman as Tyreese in AMC's The Walking Dead There are more than a few definitions for the word ethics, but common to most of them are moral obligations dictated...
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'Better Call Saul' is as much about male ego as 'Breaking Bad'
Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill in 'Better Call Saul' Trying to create a spin-off to a successful television is a tricky thing. People remember M*A*S*H and Happy Days, but not AfterMASH or Joanie Loves...
View ArticleThe Walking Gays?
So AMC's The Walking Dead has featured it's first gay kiss between two guys and the Phobes are out in full force. This is not new. . .
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