Monthly Archives: October 2016

Vote Cyr if you want Pilgrim closed ASAP and decommissioned property.

If you’re undecided between Julian Cyr and Anthony Schiavi, a more-reasonable-than-many- Republicans Republican, compare them on the issue of the closure of Pilgrim. There is no more pressing issue at this time than the need to close the decrepit Pilgrim now, rather than risk two more years of increasing dysfunction. (Not to mention the risk […]

DEMOCRATS: WHEN IN DOUBT, VOTE THE BRAND

I see from a recent poll that more millennials would rather see an asteroid wipe out the planet than either of the candidates get elected. Seems a little extreme. We hope that’s just the younguns’ way of saying what a lot of us are saying about voting holding our noses. A lot of us can […]

NEEDED: SINGER-SONGWRITER NOBEL

Life was Dylan-flavored in the mid-’60s, at least in the Bay Area where I lived at the time. Everywhere you went, it seemed, there was “Bringing It All Back Home” and then “Highway 66” on the turntable, or their songs on the radio, refusing to conform to the usual 2-3 minute-per-song format of the time. […]

HURRICANE TRUMP

Yet another revelation of a Trump nastiness. Another debate that in an ordinary election would  doom a candidate as certainly as if he had shown up drunk.  How does Trump shoot himself in the foot? Let us count the ways. Is it the complete lack of substance behind the inane bragging that he’s great, that […]

THE ELECTION PROCESS: TRIAL BY ORDEAL

It’s been said before and I’m going to say it again: the presidential election process is a ridiculous, wasteful, abusive–and even repulsive—ordeal for candidates and citizens alike. Probably the most visible part of the pageantry of our democracy, it’s a prolonged, dehumanizing, often humiliating assault on the dignity of those we’d like to be able […]