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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Two hundred and thirty-two years ago representatives of thirteen loosely aligned colonies produced an open letter to the king of England. This document put to paper the notion that it was time for the people in these colonies to cut the umbilical cord that bound them to an increasingly abusive motherland. And so began the [...]
NO ONE TO VOTE FOR
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008In the presidential election of 2000 I voted for Harry Browne, the Libertarian Party’s candidate. I could not, in good conscience, vote for Al Gore, who I believed to be developmentally challenged (I still feel that way about big Al). I couldn’t vote for George W. Bush because I knew absolutely nothing about him, and [...]
Nancy Grace — Television’s Worst of the Worst?
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008I’ll admit right up front that I watch too much television. And until I discovered CNN’s harrier-in-chief, Nancy Grace, I honestly thought I had seen the worst of the worst. Boy was I wrong! This mouth without a brain has managed to incorporate every bad aspect of 24 hour news, talk shows, lawyer shows and [...]
Goodbye to Our Dog “Blue”
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007My wife and I lost a good friend Sunday (May 27, 2007). Her name was “Blue”. She was a Dalmatian and she was fifteen years old. Those of you who have never enjoyed the company of a good dog for a long period of time will probably stop reading this now. I understand. Blue came [...]
Sports, Race and PC Newspeak
Friday, April 13th, 2007If I may be permitted to misquote H.L. Mencken: No one ever went broke underestimating the memory of the American public. When the Revs. (Jackson & Sharpton), the news media, and all the other usual suspects fell all over each other in their rush to condemn three Duke University student athletes for raping a “poor [...]
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