Aliens in the Press

It is not OK to say it, but it is OK to talk about it. Where is Lenny Bruce when we need him? How did we get to this place where free speach is punishable by city ordinance?

So, Carly Fiorina like many freshman politicians is caught by an open microphone. UH-OH!

I'm still not sure what she said about Barbara Boxer's hair, but the NYT has already suggested it's a gaffe that will haunt her the rest of her campaign. If it was a guy, it would be sexist, but since it's a gal it's catty. PUHLEASE.

Now let me get this straight. It doesn't matter what Carly has to say about her opponent as long as no one hears her?

It looks like Carly's already creating the big lie, saying she was just repeating what a friend had said.

Somewhere along the line, the newspaper has sold out. The TV reporters never had any integrity anyway, but I always expected more from the newspaper people. I remember when Dad would come home from his day at the paper and the phone would be ringing from advertisers and subscribers in an uproar. Eventually, the advertisers came back and the subscribers came back and, in the meantime the Truth was served.

OK, there are hard truths and soft truths. That's why we have fluid reality. The Truth is in the mind's eye of the beholder. One can be ignorant of that fact if one desires.

Hard truth is that if one jumps off a 50-foot balcony, one is going to die. A soft truth is a question of Carly's veracity. 'Let's give her the benefit of the doubt.'

OK. But you and I both know she's lying and that she will never admit it in public.

I'm back to Atlas Shrugged today, but I'm not done.

Ain't it grand that a 16-year-old girl gets dismasted in the Indian Ocean and rescued by technology before she had an opportunity to die for her arrogance. Who's paying for THIS rescue?

Speaking of rescues, the Wall Street Journal today suggests that now is a good time to margin up, crazy as it may sound. Isn't that what led to the bailouts? Does it sound crazy? Is it crazy? Go ahead, make my day. My seven-hundred-dollar gold coins need a boost. Not to mention the four-hundred-dollar ones.