Let’s say you’ve got a 14-year old kid in school. It’s show-and-tell day, and your child’s classmate brings a device to class purporting to be a home-made clock. It doesn’t...
Back during the Chicago Conspiracy Trial when I was just a wee lad of 19, I had the luck and privilege of being a member of the defense team, mostly handling...
Just imagine… you and your spouse-to-be did your blood tests, you’ve put your documentation together and you pile into the car to get your marriage license. You get to the...
I’ve been working at a popular culture website for the better part of the past decade, www.comicmix.com. That’s way past my usual sell-by date, but I’ve stayed around for a...
It is such a cliché to quote George Orwell’s 1984. It’s been done to death. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Yeah, we get it. But our...
It would be swell if I could like Mike Huckabee. The guy is just so damn affable. He’s funny, self-effacing, pleasant to watch on teevee, and for a politician he’s...
Those of you who are regular readers of Brainiac On Banjo know that I enjoy the history of political corruption, particularly as it applies to larger-than-life personalities: Anton Cermak in...
Money doesn’t talk, it screams • Bob Dylan You’ve got to give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu credit. American politicians campaign on talk shows, eat pizza with a knife...
There are so many reasons to dislike Rudy Giuliani. When he became mayor of New York City, he cracked down on petty crimes instead of focusing on offenses such as...
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. • Mark Twain Since we’ve been on the subject of free speech vs. religious zeal, I would like you...
Here are a couple of recent facts that trouble decent people. 1) Despite pleas from the police commissioner, union officials and even from their hallowed Rudy Giuliani, at today’s New...
“There’s a new kind of warfare out there,” our mass media have been telling us these past weeks. They are pointing to the Hacker-Warriors’ attack on Sony Pictures that resulted...
We all know the story: a group calling itself “Guardians Of Peace” – GOP, no kidding – declared the Christmas movie The Interview to be a blood libel. The Korean...
Now that we’ve seen over 100,000 Americans of all races and ages and both sexes take to the streets to make a stand against the current fad of white policemen...
American way, How did it start? Thousands of creeps, Killed in the park American way, Try and explain Scab of a nation, Driven insane Don’t cry, Gotta go bye...
