Hammer Mill Days

Well it's been a while. Time to open up the old mailbag, right? Right, then, right! Here's a little missive from alert listener Ozymandius Lake in southern Nevada, somewhere near the Arizona border. ("No fixed address" is a strange name for a street, but anyway...)   Dear ignorant buggers, It is manifestly obvious to me, Ozymandius Lake, that you people are a bunch of frauds. Stinking, lousy frauds! I may have no fixed address, but that doesn't mean I'm gullible. You don't live in the Cheney Hammer Mill! That place was knocked down decades ago. And even if it hadn't been, it was hardly large enough to accommodate everything that you claim happens there. And that Rick Perry album you're producing - there ain't no such thing. I've been living in these bottoms for nigh onto twenty years, and I ain't never seen no Rick Perry album. Yours respectfully, O.L. Well, Ozymandius - taking your last comment first - I would have t...

Coming down to the wire, here. A little more than two weeks to the general election and it's going to be a nail biter. Thing is, it shouldn't even be close, but it very likely will be. And that's not good news for the 47%. Or the 99%. Because we all stand to be screwed big time if it goes the wrong way. Right now, Mitt Romney is running around the country like the freaking Candyman, promising everyone everything they want with zero cost. We'll cut your taxes twenty percent and you'll get to keep all of your deductions! We'll make sure rich people pay the same percentage (key term) of taxes that they pay now! All of you middle class folks will be able to deduct 18%, no, 25%, no, 40% of your taxable income! Pick a number! We'll do all that, raise the military budget a trillion dollars, and reduce the deficit at the same time! I'll create 12 million jobs! No rain ever again ... unless, of course, you like rain! It is often said that incumbency has its...