Yes, it’s 2013. We’ve survived December 21st, when various perversely optimistic hucksters were telling us we would all be “saved” from our humdrum, unsatisfying existences by the ultimately grand cosmic gesture of an Apocaplypse as predicted by some incorrectly deciphered Mayan calendar. Most of us survived “Superstorm” Hurricane Sandy, which, as predicted by so many for so long, demonstrated what the effect of raising the world’s sea-levels and ocean temperatures by willy-nilly burning everything that would burn as fast as possible in the name of… what, again?… would do to storm intensity and resulting damage, when a storm finally hit...

I have nothing to say, nothing to add, nothing… NOTHING. What can you say after a tragedy like the shooting up of six and seven year old kids, leaving twenty of them dead along with six adult members of their school staff in Newtown, CT yesterday. Well, the White House tells us “this is not the day to talk about gun control.” No. Of course not. Why would it be? After all… this isn’t Britain, where one similar incident at a school in Dunblane, Scotland resulted in the banning of virtually all private hand guns in the country ( country...

Anything that might help anyone, excepting the military [and the other components of the ruling class.] And so, amidst the fake crisis we’re told is a “fiscal cliff,” the Republican House has nonetheless found some money and voted to provide lifetime Secret Service protection to all living Presidents (right now, Democrats outnumber Republicans three [Obama, Clinton and Carter] to two [Bush Pere and Dubya])… but paranoia has bipartisan consensus. [the change, btw, is that current law provides for Secret Service protection for up to ten years after the President leaves office; this will provide such protection for life of the...

Well, the always-opportunistic Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, who famously questioned the patriotism of his opponent, triple-amputee-as-a-result-of-military-service Max Cleland, in a senate race some years back, now takes… a stand?… and suggests that he may breach his “no new tax” pledge with Grover Norquist. Yawn. [Oh… and my college classmate, the President, forgot to mention the One True God in his Thanksgiving address. The fact that he’s going to use these “Fake Fiscal Cliff[TM]” negotiations to set in motion the eventual handing over of social security to his backers on Wall Street… what did you think this was about?… will be...

First, a happy birthday to TD Sister, and belated happy birthdays to TD Nieces #2 and 5 (ages 14 and now 4 days respectively) and to Mrs. TD. And now… on with the all too tragic soap opera that is the Middle East. Israel’s Haaretz reports that a cease-fire deal is in the works between Israel and Hamas. The deal being brokered in Cairo with the assistance of Egypt would, hopefully, shut down the ongoing rocket barrage into Israel coming from Gaza and the Israeli air-strikes in retaliation (as well as the possible Israeli ground invasion of Gaza). Some things...

No… not the vote total of the winner of the Fake Election[TM], my college classmate, Barack Hussein Obama, but the fact that at measuring stations in Arctic and other Northern climes, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have come in at the devastatingly high 400 parts per million. Even as much of the New York area continues to reel from the aftermath of “superstorm Sandy,” with a new “Noreaster” storm expected within hours, it would appear that, whether Americans chose to recognize reality or not, reality has decided it won’t wait for us. Ah, I remember a candidate who suggested that “today...

Thanks to whomever posted this gem from the Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror VII.” Be it Kang or Kotos, Goldman or Sachs… my vote is “no thanks.” Vote any way you want. You know where I stand.

All is well here in Stately Dog Manor in Brooklyn… alas, Familia TD in the NYC suburbs, especially up in Rockland County, continue to be without power. On a broader note, the Grey Lady gives us this round-up of frustrations associated with the (inevitably) slow recovery in many places from last weekend’s Hurricane Sandy. One of the frustrations that had been a growing irritant was the running of the NYC Marathon (given that there remain hundreds of thousands without power not to mention a seeming inability to get here– and frustrations involving the intersection of marathoners with hotel reservations and...

Discuss amongst yourselves. Or not. As you see fit.

As y’all know by now, the machines bureaucrats over at the Norwegian Nobel committee awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the machines bureaucrats of the European Union. Obviously, that committee has been phoning it in for years, with awards to such famous peaceniks as Henry “I Secretly Bombed Cambodia and All I Got was this lousy Peace Prize” Kissinger and, of course, my college classmate, Barack “Drone King… but I’m still not Dubya… really, I’m not…” Obama. At some point a while back, Candace asked me if it were possible for for the Nobel Committee to take back its Peace...