Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

Politics & The Hollywood Bubble

I’m not trying to pick on Ashton Kutcher over an old misstep, but it perfectly illustrates my point. As a reminder, back in early November 2011, Joe Paterno was fired from his position at Penn State following public outrage at his actions (or lack thereof) in the Sandusky child molestation scandal. In reaction to that […]

Lessons From Tucson

There are many things we could learn from the horrific shooting in Tucson one year ago today. For E.J. Montini, it seems all that resonated with him was “Never let a tragedy go to waste” He should learn that sometimes simple is better, as Congressman Jeff Flake showed us with this statement: On the one-year […]

Hayworth? McCain? Door Number 3?

John McCain is up for reelection…again. For like the 400th time. He’s been in D.C. since 1982 (after settling in Arizona in 1981) Remember 1982? It also gave us the movies E.T., Tootsie, Tron, Ghandi…. In other words, it was a long time ago, people. (My first dealing with, and disappointment in, McCain & his […]

A Little Cyanide In Your Tea

Crash the Tea Party states: “Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely.” But they also: plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic. If Tea Partiers really are so horrible, why would you need to resort to […]

In Defense of Sarah Palin

Norman Podhoretz outs himself as an unabashed supporter of Sarah Palin, and it is refreshing to see. I think this sentence alone explains a great deal about her appeal to ‘ordinary’ Americans. She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president. […]

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