Where politics is involved, I have strict standards of exposure to which I rigidly adhere. DIRECT MAIL DURING PRIMARIES:  Democratic candidate submittals are trashed without review.  Republican offerings are scrutinized with great care. TELEVISION ADS AT ANY TIME IN THE PROCESS:  Like most American males, the television’s remote control is my scepter.  It is always [...]

Last week the dunces driving America’s automobile industry down the washboard road to oblivion, left their corporate jets in Motown and drove hybrid cars to Washington, DC to once again plead their case for a bailout. Having seriously misjudged the symbolic (and, therefore, political) importance of modes of transportation, these transportation moguls were, for a [...]

History is made! For the first time since 1961, small children will live at the White House. Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but neither was really a child anymore, and neither was (at the time, at least), particularly photogenic. Some social scientist somewhere should examine why three of the last [...]

(With an Added Bonus Regarding Negative Politics) What follows is an excerpt from a book I sort-of published in the mid-1990′s.  By “sort of”, I mean that it was rejected by some of the finest publishing houses in America because it was too long (560 pages) and had a limited potential market.  The Republican National [...]

Here’s an old joke most of us have heard: Q:    How can you tell when politicians are lying? A:    Their lips are moving. Here’s not-a-joke that most people don’t know: Q:    Why do politicians lie? A:    Because voters will not tolerate truth from politicians. Bear with me as I take a somewhat roundabout way of [...]