“You don’t tug on Superman’s cape You don’t spit into the wind You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger And you don’t mess around with HIM”   Secretary:  “The directors of the Thatcher Memorial Library have asked me again to remind you Mr. Thompson,” Reporter:  “Yes, but……” Secretary:  “of the conditions under which you may inspect certain portions of [...]

( Pigging Out With Koch) By Jerry Waxman In case you haven’t heard the news, the Chicago Tribune reported that headline the day that Truman won the election in 1948. Their track record has been about as accurate ever since that date. The great and iconic columnist Mike Royko went to work for them in 1984 only after [...]

  “You never let a good crisis go to waste.”……..Rahm Emmanuel   I have to admit a grudging respect for Rahm Emmanuel’s thought processes, even though I think he’s wrong most of the time. When he’s right he’s dead on and that quote from him says it all when it comes to the Sequester. The one time the President [...]

Ship’s Captain: “Bring her around hard aport 220 with a hard rudder amidships” Bosun:              “What’s that, Captain?” Ship’s Captain: “MAKE A LEFT! MAKE A LEFT!   U-Boat Captain “Hmmm…He brought her around hard aport 220 with a hard rudder amidships.” 1st mate:            “ Vas, Herr Hauptmann?” U-Boat Captain: “HE MADE A LEFT! HE MADE A LEFT!” With apologies to Charlie Manna’s War at Sea [...]

Random thoughts while driving to the Celebration of 2012 at the GLBT Center…… It has been a long struggle. The world has not treated the gay community kindly for practically forever. Up until the Stonewall riots in 1969 the gay community sort of lived with it in quiet desperation. After Stonewall, things were not the same. [...]

Throughout recorded history and throughout all of literature human beings have been subjected to temptation in myriad forms. Starting in Genesis temptation takes the form of a serpent who seduces eve to taste the forbidden fruit. Throughout the Old Testament temptation then takes the form of a woman; witness Delilah, Jezebel and others who drove [...]

What compels people to stand in line for hours on end to be able to buy something strictly because they can save a little money? What compels them to endure the abuse of not only the store managers but the insensitive and aggressive crowds that push and shove and occasionally assail them over a place [...]

  Clint Eastwood defies description. Most people remember him as either the two fisted action hero of the 1960’s spaghetti westerns or as “Dirty Harry” Callahan. It’s easy to understand why; his characters embodied what frustrated people wanted to do when they sensed injustice. He was the next generation of hero as delineated by John [...]

Aug. 27, 6:49 AM. Random thoughts while in the hospital waiting room as my wife is undergoing the final phase of reconstruction.   Yesterday several people I know went to Tampa to take part in a planned protest of the GOP, its candidates and its policy positions. It might have made 10 seconds on the TV [...]

*Author’s Note-I am an independent advisor to the Shayan Elahi Campaign. I have no responsibility for managing it, my opinions are strictly my own and I am not being compensated. I would normally only offer my endorsement, however, the circumstances here are extraordinary and I feel compelled to let the sun shine through this miasma. The Real [...]

“De Camptown Ladies sing dis song, Doo-Dah! Doo-Dah! De Camptown Racetrack five miles long, Oh! Doo-Dah Day!”   The primary season certainly does feel like a long distance race with the finish line almost in sight. Everyone concerned is practically out of breath and sleepless as we come into the clubhouse turn before the home stretch. [...]

*“I got the horse right here, the name is Paul Revere, and here’s a guy who says if the weather’s clear….”   Wow! To hear all the judicial candidates speak at all of the events they are invited to one would think that they are all the embodiment of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Learned Hand and Benjamin Cardozo [...]

  I did it! I finally sold off my last two working firearms and I feel as though a burden was lifted from my shoulders. Gun use was practically a rite of passage growing up. Many of the movies we love involve gun violence. True also of the TV series we watch. These guns weren’t [...]

By Jerry Waxman Prior to this year the date June 28 produced a few blips on the radar of some historical significance. Here’s a sampling: 1846   Adolph Sax patents the saxophone 1902  Congress passes the Spooner Act authorizing the building of the Panama Canal 1914  WWI begins with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria [...]