Is McCain a PC or a Mac Guy?

“Neither. I am, I am a, ah, illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all the assistance I can get.” However, that conflicts with another statement of his the other day, about how his search for a vice president was going: “You know, basically it’s a Google. What you can find out now on the Internet — it’s …

Lobbyists Are Getting A Raw Deal

Snap! Screw the politicians! Elect corporations to run our government. Look at the bangin’ job they’re doin’ in Iraq.

The Obama Zeitgeist: UPDATE

In my post, The Obama Zeitgeist, I wrote: Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. I suggested that this turn to hope and idealism found resonance in the teachings The Urantia Book re its depiction of The Seraphic Planetary Government, and in its distinction between ideas and …

Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

While the Obama campaign depicts the ontogeny of Organism McCain as the phylogenetic recapitulation of Species Bush, aka “running for Bush’s third term,” one has to wonder how McSame will respond. Perhaps he will take a page out of the old (and not so old) Kremlin playbook, as mentioned in Monday’s NY Times editorial titled Airbrushed by the Kremlin, Again, …

Let The “Tired Negative Attacks” Begin

A McCain spokesman recently accused Sen. Barack Obama of “launching … tired negative attacks” against Sen. McCain for simply pointing out McCain’s most recent gaffe, claiming he had “supported every investigation” into the causes of the Katrina response when in fact two of his votes were actually cast to prevent investigations. McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers: It doesn’t bode well …

RFK’s Obama Prophecy

From yesterday’s Meet the Press: He gave a speech to the Voice of America all around the world 40 years ago. And despite what was going on in the country, particularly in Alabama, Bobby Kennedy said this: Things are “moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years.” This is in 1968, we’re now in …

The Scattered Brotherhood

A Time Will Come IN THESE TIMES OF CHANGE, you cannot afford to meet the shock of life with emotion; you cannot hate; you cannot fear. The evil that you see has always been here; the ignorance is not for you to judge nor can you respond to it even in the sense of so-called righteous indignation. We have tried …