Will racial bias cost the President the election?

Here's some interesting campaign math: If the white vote constitutes 74 percent of the total vote, as it did in the last election, and Romney receives at least 61 percent of that white vote, Obama must either improve on the 80 percent non-white vote he received last time – and maintain the same turn out levels, or Romney wins.  Polls estimates are that Romney leads Obama among likely white voters 60-37. Can it really be true that 60% of white voters disagree with Barack Obama over policy? Or is there something darker that is being rejected?

What's My Line hosts a macabre Halloween visitor

A macabre Halloween visit with Alfred Hitchcock -1954

Will The Willow shutter FEMA? The daily update and a history lesson

During a debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether FEMA should be shuttered and states required to take over responsibility for disaster response. His response?

A musical playlist as Sandy's waters rise behind us

AS HURRICANE SANDY MAKES HER INROADS ON OUR SHORES, A MUSICAL WISH THAT ALL REMAIN SAFE, WARM AND DRY WITH SHELTER FROM THE STORM STARRING MAMAS AND PAPAS, JIMI, JOHN AND PAUL, NEIL, BRUCE AND FEATURING THE FATHER OF MOTION PICTURES, THOMAS A. EDISON

John Franklin Stevens Open Letter to Ann Coulter

As many of you no doubt know, self-styled pundit and provocateur Ann Coulter recently indulged in her penchant for the insult when she tweeted the following of the President:

Ann Coulter ‏@AnnCoulter                                                                             October 22, 2012

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard. 

She responded to the ensuing hue and cry with her predictably graceless flair:

Remember these Oldies But Goodies On The Big D?

The Beatnik DJ himself, Dick Robinson with some anonymous has-beens or 

never were in the first place fellers. 

John Keats' Ode to Autumn

Ode to Autumn by John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Mitt's foreign policy revealed: Cowboy up! Oops!

ETCH-A-SKETCH UPDATE: Oh great! Yesterday I was ready to grab my 10 gallon hat, boots, spurs and rusty cap gun and saddle up for Team Romney to play Sheriff to the world just like back in the good old Bush days when oliver sudden morphs into a peacenik and pulls the plug on the whole shooting match. All that fretting and fuming over whether Mittens was gonna steal the nuclear code and hit the button right there on the debate stage and it turns out all he wants to do is give peace a chance. Fooled me again, slick.

Keith Jarrett playing in the Autumn Leaves

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette playing in the Autumn Leaves.

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Mitt Romney, Robert Bork and abortion

It is now days before the election and we are still expected to peer behind a mask of obfuscating slogans in search of the very few clues we can find that tell us which way the Willow will bend when the winds blow and what it is that he will risk mussing his hair to fight for.

On one issue at least, help is here, courtesy of Politifact.com which has compiled Romney's abortion positions over the years, step by circuitous step.