The big weekend is just about upon us. No, not the Super Bowl. We already had that one. The Oscars. The Academy Awards. That gaudiest of all gaudy award shows that allows all of us to feel like we are better judges of great cinema than the 6,000 or so members of the Academy […]
Archives for February 2011
Lies that Make No Sense: the Republicans’ View of the Economic Meltdown
In the hilarious film spoof of the free-love movement of the 1960s, “A Guide to the Married Man,” a married man, played by Walter Matthau, seeks guidance from a true womanizer, played by Robert Morse. The story revolves around Matthau’s burning desire to get some action outside of his marriage, with Morse more than […]
The Reagan Legacy: How He Spoiled Us
Ronald Reagan would have been 100 this past week. The media folks have made a big deal of the anniversary of his birth, with a major special on HBO and even a PBS close-up of his second wife, Nancy, who still survives, seven years after her husband’s death. Conservatives treated the event with all […]
The Egyptians Rise Up: What are the Lessons for the U.S.?
Foreign policy is a tough business, especially when you are the world’s only real superpower. If the policy makers in Washington didn’t understand that fact before the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt rocked the world this week and last, they surely must at least be thinking on it now. What’s a country supposed to do […]