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  1. Current Affairs, The Ultimate Golden Parachute

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-09-08
    If you are an American taxpayer, that's you, dummy. If you thought gasoline prices, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were the pits, hold your breath. There's a whole bunch of freeloaders lining up ...

  2. Current Affairs, Obama, The Pasteurization Of. Read All About It.

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-07-12
    A few days ago, possibly during some drug-induced trance or, more realistically, after sleeping through a Lou Dobbs rant, one wrote a piece, here published, entitled "The Pasteurization of Barack...

  3. Current Affairs, The Pasteurization of Barack Obama

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-07-09
    For a while there, Obama was really something. We were knocked sideways by the rhetoric. Martin Luther King out of J F Kennedy out of Winston Churchill. And that hesitant "ah" that made him s...

  4. Current Affairs, Summut Stinks, And It's Not The North End Of a South Bound Cow

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-29
    So here's Hilary. She's in a bind. Sez to Obama. She sez, yo my man, get your donors to pay off my debt, I'll get my donors to donate to you so you can pay off my debts so my donors can donate to ...

  5. Books, Writing. You Have To Pass Awful To Be Good. Sometimes, Awful Is Good.

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-26
    A lot of writers I meet or hear from are in despair. They've been rejected a zillion times by agents and publishers. Sneered at by their creative writing (whatever that is) teachers. Seems they do...

  6. Books, Writers, Empower Yourselves!

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-26
    Time was, writers were seen to be respectable members of society. Valued, even. Nowadays, writers as a whole are viewed as a marginal bunch, bad credit, slackers, and liberals, dangerous, eve...

  7. Family & Parenting, A Perfect Evening

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-23
    Picture this if you will. Sunset, the witching hour. A back yard somewhere in Quebec, not far from Montreal. A mass of greenery, could be deepest Vermont. Fresh, not a hint of muggy. Cool, ...

  8. Current Affairs, Tha Can Tell A Sheik From Jidda, But Tha Can't Tell Im Much.

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-23
    Like telling him, and the rest of the cartel, (excuse my French) "Get your finger out." If you are a masochist, still read newspapers, watch CNN or Fox, you'll know about Jidda conference, ak...

  9. Current Affairs, Who Was That Sheik I Saw You Out With Last Night?

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-06-23
    That was no sheik. That was my cartel. Ok. One hates to say it's the same old same old but, it's the same old same old. Those Saudi sheiks must have learnt the fine arts of flim-flam, rip-off...

  10. Current Affairs, LET'S ALL BLAME THE CHINESE

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-05-20
    Oh, so you've noticed? Over the past six, twelve months, everybody has been knocking the Chinese? Leaving aside the lead paint and Melamine scandals that were, truth be told, probably so...

  11. Advertising, Advertising Agencies: Dinosaurs

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-05-15
    Once upon a time, advertising agencies were just that: somewhere you went to get your advertising done. They were a one-stop. You got your advice on how to advertise your product. You got your cop...

  12. Current Affairs, Why don't we just shoot them all?

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-01-26
    It's illegal, dummy. But, when you hear stuff like: "Americans don't dislike wealthy people; they want to be wealthy people.". Or, "Canadians like paying taxes." you are sorel...

  13. Current Affairs, Afghanistan. Light at the End of the Tunnel?

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2008-01-02
    My daughter, the apple- as we used to say before Elmore Leonard took over- of my eye, has an Afghan boyfriend. For over a year, already, oy veh. He is, in the patois of my Yorkshire mining vi...

  14. Current Affairs, Up Clough On't Second Floor, Hanging From't Bathroom Peg

    by DAVID LOVATTSMITH - 2007-12-01
    Up Clough On't Second Floor, Hanging From't Bathroom Peg Many harvests ago, before cell phones, iPods, computers, Valium- even Hitler, there existed, in the North of England, a bucolic hamle...