Today is that quadrennial day of days, February 29th, the day that takes the only perfect month in the entire calendar — that is, the only month with four identical seven-day weeks — and turns it into an unbalanced mess of 29 days. Ordinarily, February and March start on the same day of the week, [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Taking a Flying Leap
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 |
Little Ricky’s Weak Stomach
Posted in Uncategorized on February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments »
By now, everyone’s had time to digest Little Ricky Santorum’s recent comments that John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s 1960 “religion” speech made him (Little Ricky, that is) want to “throw up”. “I think it shows weakness,” Little Ricky said on ABC’s Sunday show. “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is [...]
Temporary Linsanity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 27, 2012 |
Here at OMT, we don’t mind telling you that we’re sick and tired of having to endure all of the hype surrounding Jeremy Lin, the point guard with the New York Knicks. Granted, the story of his rise from apparently out of nowhere — having been cut by two other NBA teams before joining the [...]
Bob Casey’s Apocalypse
Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2012 |
Last week, in a move virtually ignored by the media, probably because they couldn’t seem to find a breaking point in their saturation coverage of the Republican freak show that has dominated the airwaves for months now, Senators Joseph Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, and Pennsylvania’s own Bob Casey introduced a Senate resolution whose aim is to [...]
Blues in the White House
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“Turn on channel 6 The president comes on the news, Says, ‘I get no satisfaction, That’s why I sing the blues.’” — Bob Weir ——————– President Obama caused quite a stir a couple of weeks ago when, at a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, he sang a [...]
Godspeed, John Glenn
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It was 50 years ago today that John Glenn made his historic flight, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. It was the third Mercury mission, after the sub-orbital flights of Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, and it came 10 months after the Soviets made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space. The Russians [...]
Low Turnout
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2012 |
Never has so much of a fuss been raised by so many media outlets about the presidential preferences of so few. Considering the numbers of people showing up to actually cast votes in the primaries and caucuses so far — numbers which represent anywhere from less than one percent to about five percent of those [...]
Newt Goes to the Dogs
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2012 |
Little Ricky Santorum’s recent “surge” in Republican circles appears to be gaining momentum, with more and more conservatives now seeing him as the logical “conservative alternative” to Mitt Romney that they have been searching for throughout this entire campaign. Polls show him going toe-to-toe with Mitt nationally now, and money has finally started flowing into [...]
Holy Mother — The Church
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The brouhaha centering around the White House’s rule requiring health insurance plans to provide women with coverage for contraception comes at a time when Republicans are looking for clubs with which to pound President Obama in this election year, and they are only too happy to pick this latest one up and start swinging. That [...]
Crazy Cat
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 |
We thought we’d get an early jump on the upcoming weekend, with its promise of measurable snow, by lightening up our schedule, as well as our mood, a bit. And since we have been in something of a rut lately anyway, OMT topicwise, perhaps some time away from the keyboard would prove to be beneficial [...]
