By Wink I expect this topic to be a little touchy, but stay with me here. Why do churches get a pass on paying taxes? Churches do lots of good work. I get that, but lots of people and organizations do good work and STILL pay tax. I hate to pick on the Scientologists here, [...]
By Wink So your child becomes sick, or gets hurt in an accident. You don’t have health insurance and the bills are mounting up. What do you do? You have a pancake feed or a spaghetti dinner, that’s what. Have you gone to the pancake feeds and spaghetti dinners? I have. Sometimes they raise more [...]
By Wink I grew up surrounded by all kinds of music: big band, pop, soul, country, jazz, blues, classical, metal, disco, and so on. Beatles? Mozart? Hendrix? John Philip Sousa? Aretha? I heard it all, and then some.. The music that still ‘drives’ me, to this day, is rock and roll. But I do have [...]
“Ode to a ‘Tired Liberal’”
By Evangeline McAllister (Nov 4, 1937)
In youth he swore to rend the hindering bars
That held his people from the Promised Land…
By Wink In my September 1, 2009 article I made a perfectly rational argument that members of the U. S. House of Representatives are morons, compared to those who reside in the Senate. I would like to update you on that, and let you know that I was mistaken, and the House members have really [...]
By Wink Opinions are like aardvarks, everybody should have one, but they are mostly useless. Winkest Link is and always will be fact-based. Disagree with us if you wish (in fact, we encourage this), but please try to stick to facts. “Obama is a commie who is trying to ruin the country” is fact-free sentiment, [...]
By Kasson The state legislature of Massachusetts is working on a bill to allow the Governor to appoint an interim Senator so that their state is fully represented in congress until the special election takes place on January 19, 2010. This bill was one of Ted Kennedy’s final wishes. It seems logical that the state [...]
By Wink In my August 28 article I mentioned (in passing) that the IQ of the average U.S. Congressman is 20+ points lower than that of the average U.S. Senator. My opinion on this has not changed, although I constantly wonder if I am being too generous to the Congressmen. Another case in point….. Kansas [...]
