Politics

Car Care vs. Health Care

Why is it that Americans easily understand the need for universal car insurance but so many can’t grasp that human beings deserve at least as much care as one would gladly give a car?

Opposition to Obama

Okay, America, admit it: 90% of you who “disapprove” of Obama’s Presidency are racists. RACISTS. You’ve all been hiding ever since George Wallace and Richard Nixon gave you a corner to hide in. But watch out, pigs: white people won’t be a majority in just a few short years. (I’m a white guy and I don’t give…
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Sarah Palin’s Farewell (First Draft)

Hello, my fellow Alaskans, who really — well, those liberals there, they’d have you — and those taxes, whooo-hoo, what makes us Americans?  Not on my watch, and that’s why I — my refrigerator, we call it a fridge, like most American families, and that is where the goodness in this nation is — we…
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Pig-Dog Conservatives

CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Committee met last week (and no, I don’t care to find out where and precisely when, but it was in February 2009 if you’re curious.)  Every Republican who wants his name in the paper was there (oh, and I am deliberately being non-inclusive in my choice of pronoun here,…
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Te Deum

Ah, how well the ancients knew that life is fleeting; that, indeed, all is vanity.  Not that I’m saying they were right in every respect: I’m just saying what they felt, more or less.  It must have been bracing to see a young friend’s body carried off in a cart, dead as a kabob, the…
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All that, and for what?

Okay, I just pretty much put the finishing touches on our first attempt at a web site.  It’s a lot more robust than the one I had 12 years ago, which was all done in raw html with a program called Web Edit.  Hoo boy, did I think I was fancy!  Unfortunately, the site was…
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