Tag Archives: Politics

What Roseanne can teach us

Roseanne Barr is back again, this time with a reboot of her iconic, eponymous television show “Roseanne.” It is 2018, so everything that has ever held any kind of cultural significance is being rebooted in a desperate attempt to cash in on the ever growing nostalgia industry. Unlike most reboots, though, Roseanne’s is worthy of the […]

Sometimes, you need to explain yourself

The world of sports, and the world of politics have many similarities. Winners and losers. Fierce competition. Obsessive, almost cult like, devotion to individual people and teams. Cheering crowds. The biggest similarity, though, is the reliance on the public. A football team is a business enterprise that relies on consumers of their product. In the […]

Angus King’s phony independence

Stop trying to fool us, Angus. I’ll admit, you are a talented salesman. You have built a carefully crafted image over the years, and have created a very successful personal brand. You have used that mythos to make quite a career for yourself. But what you have built is a phony house of cards, and it is […]