The Sunshine Empire

“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower 

This is pretty much the closest anyone had come to putting a dream of mine into music video format.  I found this band Lali Puna on Pandora.

Over close to sixteen years the American Left and the American Right have undergone transformations that have them standing on the opposite side of the pool screaming at the other one that their position is bad.  One example is spending.  In 1992 the Democratic Congress had a well deserved reputation of spending like there was [...]

Those of you who do not see the same dusty scrip from 2003 is being dusted off by all this Iran-o-hysteria are the same ones who probably thing George W. Bush is going to be vindicated by history.  Just like Herbert Hoover eventually won us all over.  I’m still waiting for the army of bi-planes [...]

Many people among the nattering talking heads say that Fox has a conservative bias, and that CNN has a leftward lean.  While I feel that Fox is a Republican mouthpiece that is this far from taking it over the line, CNN has only the center-left feelings that 70% of the American public hold.  But the [...]

David Letterman, the music of Garbage, and James Bond are some of my favorite things.  Here they are all together.

We’re still working the kinks out before the first Sunshine Empire video blogcast.  We plan an all out blitz of the same mindless bullshit that you are used to, but now on video.  I’m trying to avoid the tv because my Jaguars are getting pounded like the weak fuckers they are to pretty boy Nancy [...]

Just yesterday the last remaining member of the Rat Pack passed away. I have a framed photo of the group on the wall right next to me as I type. They are now all in that great casino in the sky and the chairman of the board has his full board in [...]

Following the NFL, I personally am a Jacksonville Jaguars fan. I make it a practice to read the paper of the home city of the team the Jags are playing. My father spends endless hours on sports message boards and I usually have no use for them. But I went to reading [...]