Election 2012 Economy Science Politics Technology Media Life Sports Latest
And Lukewarm Was His Name-O
By Will Durst on Monday, May 21st, 2012
Raging Moderate by Will Durst You don’t need a psychoanalyst to detect the latent theme running through the endorsements currently showering Mitt Romney like broken rain gutters pouring down on a concrete toadstool. And that premise is ennui. “Mitt? Really? Yeah. Okay. Whatever.” Makes tepid sound like a crazed bellow. With wild enthusiasm as MIA as World Series trophies in the Wrigley Field display case. Within the last 104 years, that is. Someone should warn ...
Evoluting Fabulously
By Will Durst on Monday, May 14th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst A thousand rainbows of congratulations to Barack Obama for bursting out of his own personal policy closet and fabulously proclaiming he believes “same sex couples should be able to get married.” Sir! Welcome to the third year of the second decade of the 21st century, sir! You also might want to check out some of the strides we’ve been making in communications. The president went on to explain he was ...
2012 Veepstakes
By Will Durst on Monday, May 7th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Since Gov. Romney has sewn up the nomination tighter than one of Chris Christie’s old suits, the only remaining Republican election drama is which name the Bairn of Bain Capital intends to place on the bottom of his bumper sticker. Yes, friends, it’s once again time to play that quadrennial game sensation sweeping the nation: Let’s Guess Mitt’s Vice Presidential Pick! Usually the question of the presumptive nominee’s prom date ...
Precisely Pivoting Polls
By Will Durst on Monday, April 30th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Now the general election has unofficially begun, you and I and pretty much everyone dear to us, except of course, beleaguered Kansas City Royal fans who eat BBQ at least twice a week, are about to be buried under such a blizzard of polls, we’ll be lucky to evade frostbite burns. The two campaigns are poised to pivot like a fat kid on roller skates clutching an expiring candy store ...
Shaking The Fleas Off The Dog
By Will Durst on Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Remember way back when his own staffer said Mitt Romney had the convictions of an Etch-A-Sketch? Well, stand back, because as we speak, the former governor of Massachusetts is being flipped over and shaken so hard the fillings in the back teeth of his whole family are starting to rattle and cascade like some great crumbling Utah Butte. Fear not the rubble, little ones. This simply means we’re entering general ...
Angrier Birds
By Will Durst on Monday, April 16th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Some small-minded pundits are guaranteed to grouchily opine this is neither the time nor the place to be re-circulating unfounded conspiracy theories. Then again, mightn’t it be more imprudent to ignore the latest rumors and dark mutterings concerning something as important as the nomination of a presidential candidate? Of course we’re talking about the uncanny similarities between the 2012 Republican primary race and a game of “Angry Birds.” The skeptical ...
Obama Care Bears
By Will Durst on Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Let us talk of many things, of Cabbages and Kings. Of Ultimate Arbiters. The Court of Last Resort. SCOTUS. The judicial graveyard where appealers go to die. The Supreme Court of the United States, which reluctantly deigned to hear testimony on a subject so obviously beneath them, it was an effort to keep their left eyes open: Obama Care. Due to the rarified air of the highest court in the ...
Romney, Inc.
By Will Durst on Monday, March 26th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst No. It’s not over. Well, okay, it’s kind of over. But the Republican nomination is not totally-otally over. As it very well should be. How over? So over, the fat lady not only sang, she should be back in her hotel room kicking off her shoes easing into a recliner with the remote in one hand and digging deep into a three-pound box of marzipan with the other. Yes, that ...
We’re All Muppets Here
By Will Durst on Monday, March 19th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Not easy being a Muppet. Referring to Greg Smith, formerly of Goldman Sachs, who wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about getting the hell out of Dodge, due to his company’s relentlessly spiraling moral depravity. According to Smith, associates are encouraged to pursue profit above all else, and that includes ripping out the eyeballs of their own billion-dollar clients at the same time they mockingly scorn them as ...
Not-So-Super Tuesday Report
By Will Durst on Monday, March 12th, 2012
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst And now your eagerly awaited Super Tuesday Report. Named for the quantity of contests and not the quality of participants. Perhaps it would be more apt to say Not-So-Super Tuesday Report. More of a Frenetic and Confusing but Ultimately Unsatisfying with a Slight Aftertaste of Desperation Tuesday Report. The biggest complaint is lack of resolution. No dragons slain. No damsels rescued. Not even a castle breached. Although there was that ...