By Wink God bless you John McCain. War hero. Alleged iconoclast. You now tell us you never considered yourself a maverick. Really? Never? Did you read your autobiography, or at least the COVER of your autobiography? You are an extremely smart man. You know the word “autobiography” indicates you wrote the book, about yourself. You [...]
By Wink The makers of the Comedy Central series “South Park” have apparently offended somebody. This may be a first for this otherwise placid cartoon. Of course, if you are familiar with the show, you may have noticed a tinge of sarcasm in the above remarks…. South Park is outrageous. Always has been. It is [...]
By Wink I normally don’t do book reviews. Any I do would probably be dated, because I rarely feel the need to purchase any book the first moment it appears at the bookstore (Harry Potter being the notable exception, of course) I read a lot, but have specialized interests. Most of what interests me, history [...]
By Wink When was the last time our government made a profit on anything? The post office used to run in the black, but doesn’t right now. No doubt the current PO fiscal crisis is due to the fact that nobody mails anything. (It is of note that the PO is self-funded and DOESN’T use [...]
By Wink There are educated people in Texas. Many of them. I am guessing they mostly live in Dallas. (No offense to the rest of Texas. I am confident you are strong and brave and no one loves America any more than you.) Erudite Texans, whether from Dallas or not, do not appear to be [...]
By Wink One thing that everybody seems to agree on is that we need universal health care in America. All Americans should have health coverage. Nobody should lose their house because they got sick. We all agree, right? Right? Okay, good. Now we can get on to a problem that really needs to be addressed. [...]
By Wink The Winter Olympics are now over. Did you enjoy them? Did you watch ANY of it? I did, and am startled to announce my personal conversion: The winter games are more fun than the summer games. Can’t believe it? I can hardly believe it either. I have always been one (of the many) [...]
By Wink Tiger apologized recently. It was broadcast live on TV. This was a really big story. Whole televised sports hours were dedicated to discussing all aspects of this. Countless hours of radio programming, even on non-sports stations, have parsed his words and vocal intonations. Newspapers and magazines are swimming in articles about this. Was [...]
By Wink We had a flat tire the other day. Noticed it outside, at work. Since we are deep in snow (for what seems like three straight months now), I just went to the store and purchased a product that is supposed to fix a flat. I won’t mention the name of the product, but [...]
By Wink Are you a guy? Did you have a brother? Was he older or younger? I am a guy, with an older brother. I don’t know what it is like to have a younger brother because I WAS the younger brother. I am sure I was pretty annoying…. hanging around, saying stupid things, bugging [...]
