Category: Politics

Thank You Donald Trump

You are a gift to every Late Show comedian in the world. As the best gifts are those that keep on giving – your presence in this race to the 2016 White House guarantees that every monologist – should he sense audience is…

Charlie Hebdo is us

  The sign, displayed by a Parisian, translates as “We all are Charlie.” From England’s “Guardian” here’s one of the more intelligent editorials published in response to yesterday’s cowardly assault on freedom of expression.​ My own solution would be more radical.…

Well, now that THAT is cleared up.

NSA spokeswoman Marci Green Miller who reportedly said, “There are numerous avenues that Mr. Snowden could have used to raise other concerns or whistleblower allegations. We have searched for additional indications of outreach from him in those areas and to…

Come With Us

It used to be said of Republican President Gerald Ford, he was too dumb to chew gum and cross a room at the same time. His legacy lives on in the right wing inability to see the logical consequences of…

Five Days Without Television

I recently read an online complaint by a parent waiting for the cable guy to show up and fix a broken connection. “I scheduled the day off of work as I have three kids and 5 days without TV makes for…

Taking Government out of Christmas

A recent article in a small town newspaper began: For years, atheists have tried to take Jesus Christ out of Christmas. That first sentence is another one of those inflammatory phrases that is careful worded  to distort the truth. Speaking…

The Broken Chained Consumer Price Index

There is a sound that does not exist Philosophers torture themseves (and us) with silly questions such as, “if a tree falls in a remote forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?”…