A Two-Fer

Rush on The Colbert Report.  You don’t see these guys in interviews very often, especially all three of them, but the more I see them the more I really enjoy their sense of humor.  Oh - and the music?  “Do you ever get tired of being so awesome and kicking so much ass?”  “No, I [...]

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Still a Bad Idea

Two weeks ago I was critical of Senator John McCain’s proposal for a national “gas tax holiday.”
Now Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a similar idea.  Though she has added a twist to the proposal with a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, the idea of a gas tax holiday is still a bad one, regardless of [...]

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Papal Visit 2008

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States on April 15.  Since then he has been reaching out - to the Catholic faithful, to Catholic youth, to the victims of clergy sex abuse, to our Jewish brothers and sisters, and to the world.  On the whole, I have to say I have been very pleased [...]

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4,000

4,000 U.S deaths in Iraq since the war began five years ago. The Associated Press has one way of calculating the death toll, The New York Times and Department of Defense another. Regardless of the exact number, it is exactly that number too many.  Of course, this is just the number of U.S. dead in [...]

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GEICO Caveman Defeats Giuliani

Since posting about the possibility that cavemen had and used language, my prehistoric friend has come to account for nearly 20% of all the traffic to this blog.  With numbers like that the GEICO caveman would have beat Rudy Giuliani in the Florida primary.  Not enough to be a serious candidate this time, but I [...]

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Cover-Up

Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007 
As was observed over at BrianKaneOnline on the day of her assassination, the blame for Benazir Bhutto’s death appears more and more likely (though it seems there was little reason ever to doubt) to rest at the feet of Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf and his government.  Early conflicting reports as to the cause of death (”She [...]

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SUV Owners Are Hypocrites. Or Not.

In a recent editorial, the editor of our local weekly (weakly?) paper said that people who drive SUVs and then complain about gas prices are hypocrites.  Aside from trying to trying to provoke a reaction - which he has obviously accomplished - he is just plain wrong.
Let’s start with what a hypocrite is:

a person who [...]

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Where to Start

In my mail at work the other day I received a copy of “For I Was Hungry,” an editorial series run this summer by the central Maine newspapers the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.  The series is about hunger in Maine, manifested in what has come to be called “food insecurity.”  Food insecurity is, depending [...]

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