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A new year, and new random opinions
Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel to House Speaker John Boehner -- finally, two months too late
Just in case anyone is still reading this blog, here are some random thoughts on a few topics — sort of in the category of, “You know what really chaps my hide?”
One of the most demeaning social trends is the way people get laid off or fired. These days, when someone loses a job, they also cease...
Coming soon to a political theater near you
They say that life sometimes imitates art. If so, life in 2010 could look like bad movies and lame remakes of good ones.
"Whaddya mean I get 30 seconds to discuss 2,000 pages of boondoggle Obamacare?"
Mr. Smith Goes to Purgatory: Let’s assume for a minute that there really is a noble, innocent, Jimmy Stewart-style “Mr. Smith” in Congress. I know, you are more likely to run...
You can’t get ‘serious legislation’ from crooked, dishonest, corrupt politicians
I started reading David Broder’s column in the Enquirer this morning. “Historic bill, hideous bargaining,” the headline said.
Hmmm, I thought. Could this be something interesting from the Dean of Dullness? Could the Washington Post’s King of Beltway Consensus actually be criticizing Democrats? Could the Professor Emeritus of the Media College of Liberal Knowledge say something...
The UPS commercial you won’t see on TV
This is clever and interesting. I found it at the RightOhio blog.
It’s worth a few minutes to understand what kind of package the Democrat are trying to deliver for their pals in organized labor.
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Surrealistic reality TV — when life imitates art
We need a name for people who get hooked on a sniff of celebrity and start chasing TV news cars.
Call it Publicity Addiction. Or Attention Surplus Disorder. Or maybe we should name it Falcon Henne Syndrome, for the balloon boy whose dad punked the whole country in a sad bid for another fix of TV attention. Apparently, he missed the family’s short fame from a Wife Swap reality show so much, he...
A health care bill that will make you sick
Some confusion is accidental — forgetting to set your clock back, mixing up your socks, trying to find the logic in anything said by Joe Biden.
And some is deliberate — the BCS formula, fine print in your insurance policy and the Ohio school-funding formula that could not be unraveled by a whole faculty of Einsteins using slide rulers.
Here’s confusion that is definitely deliberate:...
