Bill Clinton has certainly been in a sour mood during the recent campaign season. He has a tendency to really lose his temper and go off, not only on smart-ass reporters, but also on average citizens. He has managed to insult a great portion of the Dem…
Whatever will Lindsay Do Next?First she shows us her fur burger-Now, come to find out, she’s a fur burglarBoth cases reveal that evidently Lindsay is suffering from a fur shortage. I don’t really want to think about what might happen next, but hell, I …
All previous installments are listed at the end of this chapterRadu-Chapter XXXXV (A Novel by Patrick Kelley)13 pages approximatePhillip Khoska watched intently the replay of the Senate Select Committee on International Crime-for the third time, as tho…
One of the greatest of all thoroughbred race horses, of all time, was Native Dancer, who won all his career races, with one exception. This, ironically, was the Kentucky Derby in the early nineteen fifties.The irony to this is that Native Dancer was th…
Thanks goes out to Rufus from Grad Student Madness, who sent me the link to this article in the New York Times by Frank Rich. It points out a great many things I have said all the time. All of this hoopla about the Reverend Wright fails to take into ac…
Links to previous installments are at the end of this chapterRadu-Chapter XXXXIV (A Novel by Patrick Kelley)4 pages approximateFor the first time in such a long time that it felt like the very first time in Edward Akito’s life, the unthinkable occurr…
No sooner did I post about how reasonable Jeremiah Wright seemed to me on Bill Moyer’s Journal on Friday Night than he comes out and seems determined to make an ass of himself in an appearance at The National Press Club. Admittedly, I did not see the…
The most obscene thing about Miley Cyrus of Disney’s Hannah Montana isn’t this article from Vanity Fair, or the photo above of Miley in what has been described as a suggestive pose with her father Billy Ray Cyrus, or any of the other photos from the ar…
Just what the world needs-another Manson movie. This one revolves chiefly around the women in Charlie’s life, and it is obviously supposed to draw crowds looking for blood and gore and especially for the sexcapades typically associated with Manson’…
I took the time last night to watch Bill Moyer’s Journal, something I rarely do, but last night the guest star was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I saw very little about his appearance or the replay of his now infamous sermons I viewed as objectionabl…
Well, as of now there are only three chapters left of Radu, plus an epilogue. That is, unless I decide to break the last chapter up in order for the ending to not be so abrupt. More than likely, however, I will stick to plan A, because I want to get th…
Carly Smithson got booted off American Idol last night, though not to my surprise. She went down in a blaze of glory, obviously among the most gifted of an extraordinarily talented (for American Idol) group of finalists. Her song choice, I think, did h…
Links to previous installments are at the end of this chapterRadu-Chapter XXXXIII (A Novel by Patrick Kelley)10 pages approximateToby looked sullenly at the headline of the latest issue of the Baltimore Inquirer. His fists clenched as he read, inadvert…
Not too long after his first and only term as President of The United States ended with his disappointing and humiliating defeat by Ronald Reagan in 1980, Jimmy Carter related how, while on a fishing trip, his fishing boat was boarded by what he descri…
This article in Slate goes a long way toward explaining John McCain’s tendency to cross the aisle and to try to achieve bipartisan solutions to problems. Thanks to Mo Udall, that is precisely what got him where he is today. Regardless of what you think…