Obama’s Afghanistan – Pouring Troops into Absorbent Sand
Blunt Answers – The past year or so, I’ve been developing a much more stringent policy of honesty. Not with authority, mind you, but with people I love. Either absolute truth, or an honest un-answer. Now this is what happens when that carries over into hollywood . . [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
8 Dec
Things I Read Today
23 Oct
The best-spent consecutive 8 minutes and 33 seconds of my day so far.*
A friend of mine in Germany introduced me to this great short today. (No worries if you are as sadly singular-lingual as I; the minimal words in the actual short are in English.)
The beginning made me think of James Thurber’s “The Great Quillow,” then it gets darker (and brilliant).
http://www.ehrensenf.de/node/7462/
-
*no sex involved
15 Oct
Ginger, Get the Popcorn
The West Wing
In the interest of full disclosure, I must note I have not seen West Wing in its entirety. I departed soon after Aaron Sorkin. One day, when I watch it again (and I intend to), I will finish it. But I’m not looking forward to the last few seasons.
While looking for clips, there [...]
9 Oct
Thoughts On The Week
If giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is to help him accomplish something worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, would giving him a Heisman make him a better football player?
-
Though Death Cab for Cutie has shattered my confidence in – well, humanity in general – by creating a song exclusively for Twilight, this here video did make [...]
4 Aug
Futility On Drugs
I do hereby assert I believe the major reason the government won’t legalize drugs like marijuana is because then it would have nothing to hold over the heads of people they ‘know’ have done worse things, but whom they can in no other way coerce confessions or co-operation from, arrest, or prosecute. Why actually nail [...]
8 Jun
Contradict Much?
Last week George Tiller was killed by a man who may or may not have been mentally ill.
I’m not going to comment on the specifics but the generalities.
First: the US declaring something is legal does not make it moral. People seem to think that once nine old men and women in robes decide there shall [...]
15 May
Earthquake
After many years of not-enough-time and - let’s face it - stark intimidation, I’ve started a behemoth, one bite at a time.* I began reading Atlas Shrugged last month, and plan on finishing it by the end of this month. I’m almost halfway through right now. The prose is verbose but picturesque, and it is long but [...]
18 Mar
Job Security
I wrote a while back about struggles I was having at my work, trying to get Medicare to pay for services rendered after making us re-enroll in their system entirely.
Medicare finally paid US, instead of the patients. Two days of phone haggling later, we sent the check back and they were supposed to redistribute to [...]
13 Feb
Mommy, She’s Touching Me!
Fourth In The Peeves
People who are overly-politically-correct and sensitive.
Some of my friends would say I am the too-correct one. I tend not to use ‘he’ but ‘he or she,’ ‘mailperson’ if I don’t know if it’s a man or woman. But I do it because I don’t want to assume. Why should I assume a [...]
10 Feb
Karma
If for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction, and I spent a month last year telling you things I loved and you needed to enjoy, then I assume you’ve all been waiting for this: my hate list.
Pet peeves, things I despise, items that irk me – all these things and more [...]
grassrootsmovement