3 days after the Exxon Valdez ran agroundOkay, so rules have to be broken sometimes. George Will likes to wax about the time he accompanied Ronny Reagan to some repub gathering during the '80 campaigns. Seems something was...
POLITICAL FLUFFYou may have heard about it; The Civil War. The North fought the South to preserve the Union and free the slaves--except for those conscripted to work on the railroad for ten cents an hour. It has always...
KENTUCKY CHICKENRon Paul is no fan of the so-called 'Gold Standard'. Yet Paul has a quirky obsession with the gold standard that just doesn't add up... Paul sent a lengthy email to supporters attributing his recent success to...
I had not seen Monty Python's The Meaning of Life for some time (1982). The beginning is all of four minutes and then the credits are shown as if the movie is over before it began; normal Python really....
Mythbusters! You hear some strange myth in the urbanhood; Who will test it out? Mythbusters! Jamie's stache is weird, Andy's beard less rude Who'll remove all doubt? Mythbusters! They will make no idle boasts Tests are run by our...
TWO LOVES I HAVE OF COMFORT AND DESPAIR (SONNET144)What has happened down here is we are lost againThis time the crude got loose and it's causin' a lot of painThe crude gushed real hard and gushed for a...
STEVE KING'S HEROI just came upon some secret correspondence between that namesake of that guy who likes to write about zombies and talking cars addressed to Sharron Angle, the current repub Senate Candidate in Nevada. I SHALL...
SYMBOL OF WORLD GOVMENTWinston Churchill has come back from the grave to make this announcement: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For...
AINT THIS DEAN MARTIN A KICK IN THE HEAD?Mrs. Birtholt: Do you really think we knew of these things? That women and children were murdered like that? Do you really think that? It was Goebbels and the SS....
! THE SNOW JOB Well let us begin with this: The Government Accountability Office has issued recommendations to make MMS more efficient in gathering revenue, but they have yet to be...
Once upon a time there was the Mineral Management Service. Basically it is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental...
PRUDENCE "Empowered by faith, consistently, prayerfully, we need to find our way back to civility. That begins with stepping out of our comfort zones in an effort to bridge divisions... Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without...
LAURENCE STERNEWe can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our story dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. Robert Burton...
AESCHINES, THE PLAY ACTORYour health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike... Our...
Overheard playing at a recent meeting of the Young Republicans: I want my senate seat (a bunch of music) Now look at them ya ya's that's the way you do it You run for office toward a...
A three-legged dog is a survivor. A tough, sure sign that life is difficult. Yet sometimes, leaping for a frisbee or bristling at the sight of a cat, he will become graceful, his fourth leg magically visible as he...
