Boston? Why?

Monday, 8 June 2009, 7:43 | Category : Authors, Wink
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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 they [...]

Bits O’ Blaspheme

Friday, 31 October 2008, 7:00 | Category : Authors, Free-form Friday, Hypocrisy, Politics, Wink
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We have photographic proof that FDR met with Stalin and Nixon met with Mao. Two murderous communists!  Good thing that both FDR & Nixon are dead, or we would feel obligated to destroy their reputations.
J Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a “terrorist”.
All other details being identical, how close would this presidential race be if [...]

Our President is What???

Friday, 24 October 2008, 7:00 | Category : Authors, Free-form Friday, Obama, Politics, Wink
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Let us focus on November 4, 2008.
This has the chance to be the most significant U.S. election since Abraham Lincoln.
 
A brief list of the most significant U.S. elections, and why…

George Washington – Could easily have run America as a dictator. There was no restriction on how many terms a president could serve. By choosing to step [...]