By Wink Do we still have troops in Iraq? We do? Are you tired of reading about it? Imagine serving without air conditioning in 120 degree heat every day. I bet the soldiers get tired of it. Just like they get tired of wondering if they will die in some random bombing. Who knows the [...]
By Wink What do ruthless dictators and theocrats fear the most? Guns? Nope. They fear an educated citizenry, and they fear the ballot box. A few decades back Iran was overthrown by religious zealots, and they still run it today. They are not good at paperwork, or dealing with foreign dignitaries, so they installed a [...]
By Wink According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll one-third of Republicans hold an unfavorable view of their own party. This is not a good sign. The party is already shrinking. A third of Republicans in the poll (obviously a DIFFERENT third) said the GOP should not moderate its policies in its quest to regain [...]
I am going to Boston. I don’t really have a reason why, except that I have never been there before. Boston has the Celtics, but there won’t be any basketball while I am there. They have the Red Sox. I guess I can try to catch one of those games… What about history? I heard [...]
By Wink I can’t predict the future. Heck, sometimes I even have a hard time predicting the PAST. I have no idea whether or not Sonia Sotomayor will be an especially effective Supreme Court Justice. I know anybody can be a racist, but I really don’t get the feeling that Judge Sotomayor is. While I [...]
