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Get your priorities right (before rolling that r)! »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Aug 9, 2009 in Humor | 13 Comments

Why did the ragged rascal run around the rugged rock? There are searching questions to be asked!

Finding my own way (or why I find it impossible to toe any political party line) »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Aug 5, 2009 in Current Affairs | 21 Comments

I have been attending a video editing course with the Arts faculty at Ohio State University and was asked to write an “artist’s statement”, spelling out why I was an artist.
I wrote: “I am an artist because I have no choice in the matter. It is something that is hard-wired in me.  I have an [...]

Don’t trust a man (except me, of course) »

By Old Grumpy Guy on May 6, 2009 in Feminism, Gender Bias, Misogyny, OldGrumpyGuy, Open Thread, Sexism, Women's Suffrage | 15 Comments

Here’s one for the feminists. It’s another tongue-in-cheek song from my musical $ucce$$! (now seeking a Broadway home). The song is sung by an Irish-Latino character named Juanita Fitzgerald. The lyrics are as follows:

The Marketing Game (who or what does it remind you of?) »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Apr 18, 2009 in OldGrumpyGuy | 15 Comments

I wrote the song in this video for a musical called “SUCCESS!” (which I recently revised and which is currently looking for a Broadway home). It occurred to me that the observations in this song could be applied to a lot of the people and situations discussed here since the start of the elections.
Part of [...]

A sign of the times? »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Apr 16, 2009 in Current Affairs | 61 Comments

A friend sent me a link to this delightful video that recalls an innocence that belongs to a different era, when there was less cynicism around. The popularity of this video, along with the astounding impact of singer Susan Boyle on “Britiain’s Got Talent”, suggest a possible wind change in the general [...]

What changes will Spring bring? »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Mar 15, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Economy | 23 Comments

Is it just coincidence that the stock market began to show gains just as the first buds of Spring began to show themselves after a particularly dismal winter?
Whatever the effects of the Obama Administration’s policies, I have a feeling that the general outlook will at least marginally improve as the weather improves.

Tea Party chain letter rebellion »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Mar 9, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Economy | 76 Comments

I just received the following message in an email chain letter, author unknown. Has anyone else received it, or know where it originates?
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There’s a storm abrewin’. What happens when good, responsible people keep quiet? Washington has forgotten they work for us. We don’t work for them. Throwing good money [...]

Inner and outer lives »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Mar 4, 2009 in OldGrumpyGuy | 7 Comments

As I say in the video, it seems to me that many, if not most people tend to live their lives on the surface, hiding their true natures from the world so as to present a facade of normality, whatever the concept of normality happens to be at the time and in the circumstances [...]

Into the streets »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Mar 3, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Nancy Pelosi | 51 Comments

The eruption of street protests around the country against the “stimulus bill”, as depicted in this video, certainly took me by surprise. I never expected anything like this so soon, if at all.
So what happens next? Is this the start of something that is likely to snowball? Will others take to [...]

A Civilized Consensus »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 27, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economy, Gay Rights, Political Strategy | 54 Comments

In defining myself politically, I like to think of myself as representing a civilized consensus that does not fall into any particular political camp. More specifically:
On social issues, I am a liberal. As I said in my video “Why I should be President (I am the Very Model of a Modern Intellectual)”, [...]

Why I should be President (I am the very model of a modern intellectual) »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 33 Comments

The reasons for that headline are, as I state in the video:
I am the very model of a modern intellectual
I always know what’s wrong and right; I’m never ineffectual
I’m tolerant of peccadillos cultural and sexual
provided they don’t frighten children, horses or marsupials
(yes I know marsupials doesn’t rhyme exactly, but this is modern verse for heaven’s [...]

This supernatural Dickens provides models of the human spirit at its best »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 24, 2009 in Current Affairs | 19 Comments

I am not a great fan of literary narratives that stray too far into the supernatural, but Dean Koontz has succeeded in seducing me with the quality and invention of his narratives, which he churns out with the regularity of a modern-day Dickens (a writer admired by Koontz as well as myself and will be [...]

Stifled Voices »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 20, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Media, Radio, Media, Television | 200 Comments

In response to a passing comment in an earlier piece on NQ about the debate over global warning, one of the readers responded that the issue was settled, and suggested that all independent serious scientists were unanimous in their conclusions that the “fact” of global warming could not be disputed.
Yet here is a video [...]

Keeping Things in Perspective: What has not changed. »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 18, 2009 in Current Affairs, Economy, Infrastructure | 17 Comments

Just to help put a broader perspective on the problems of America and the Earth in general, here’s a video entitled “ANDROMEDA” that focuses on the Cosmos, of which the Earth is such an infinitesimally small part. Whatever happens on the surface of our planet, it continues to spin through space just as it [...]

Criticizing America: “Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You” »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 18, 2009 in Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Nancy Pelosi, OldGrumpyGuy, Open Thread | 42 Comments

This recording was apparently unearthed in Australia. Written in 1915, with words by Thomas Hoier and music by Jimmie Morgan, it was recorded in 1929, the year that saw the start of the Great Depression.
It raises some interesting questions, particularly for someone like me who arrived on these shores rather late in [...]

An alarming video every Westerner should see »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 17, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jews, Jihadists, Terrorism | 179 Comments

Anyone (like Barack Obama) entertaining ideas of western democracies establishing friendly relations with the radicals of the Islamic world should watch this video.
While watching the inflammatory rhetoric of the speaker, remember that this is not a jahidist from Iran but a professor from Kuwait - a country with every reason to be grateful to [...]

On being an outsider »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 15, 2009 in Current Affairs | 43 Comments

In my latest video on great writers I discuss D.H. Lawrence, with whom I identified as a cultural nomad and a general outsider from the mainstream.
I have pointed out in a number of videos and writings on my Youtube channel and here on NQ that I have no affiliation with any particular political [...]

How America passed the most costly bill ever totally blind »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 14, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Emperor's Clothing Syndrome, Nancy Pelosi, TARP, stimulus tax package | 22 Comments

In Uppity’s earlier piece on “You’ve Been Stimulated” she presents John Boehner’s video about the indecent speed with which the “stimulus package” was passed.
No doubt I will have the Obots screaming again about being partisan in siding with a Republican spokesman about the “stimulus package”, but GOP Congressional leader John Boehner raises [...]

Nancy Pelosi and her $30 million rats »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 13, 2009 in Current Affairs, Democracy, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Nancy Pelosi | 229 Comments

This video, featuring Congressman Jack Kingston from Georgia, would be very funny if it wasn’t so scary. In it he talks, among other things, about Nancy Pelosi’s $30 million earmark to save California rats!
For those who are suffering economic hardships, Kingston suggests you go to Los Angeles and borrow some money from [...]

Cher: Another example of airhead Hollywood bigotry »

By Old Grumpy Guy on Feb 11, 2009 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs | 123 Comments

With her latest pronouncements Cher has added her name to the list of botoxed bigots who populate the self-congratulatory circle of mutual masturbators in Tinseltown.
In asking how anyone could possibly be a Republican, she insulted half of America and displayed that kind of smug, self-satisfied, holier-than-thou attitude typical of the not-so-liberal celebrity left.

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