Why We Need Government
There has been a lot of discussion, mosty on the Right, about cutting down the size of government. It’s a pretty senseless argument because anyone who has reached the age of seven should be able to understand why we need
Now That Its Over
Looking back, now that it’s all over, one sees an inevitability in what happened in the recent presidential election. I find it hilarious that a good cross-section of Republicans are now attacking Romney almost as viciously as they did Obama before
The Real Blunder in Benghazi
The Republicans love to run up the flag by attacking Obama about his supposedly apologizing to foreign countries about America. Well, sometimes we need to apologize for the dumb and antagonistic things we do but what Obama has really been
Sportsmen- The joke
The latest massacre in Colorado has not and will not make any impression on what remains of the gun debate. We are a warlike nation of killers and we will remain that way regardless of how many psychos mow down our
Nuclear Disaster
I have always been one of the most ardent backers of nuclear energy. I was one of the many to point out that the entire human damage done throughout the world by Chernobyl from the time of that accident, until
A Take on the Mortgage Mess
I was having a discussion the other day, with my son, who is in the business of developing real estate. He was upset at the fact that there are people out in the marketplace who have stopped paying on their mortgages
Bits & Pieces #28
On This Week with Whoever Shows Up, Ed Gillespie, the Republican Party’s attack liar used a quote by George Stephanopoulos. George noted the misquote but didn’t even have the stones to seriously call him on it. What use is a host
Post Election Thoughts
Well, the elections are almost a week behind us, and the country seems to have recovered from its political madness so it’s time for our new group of politicians, which actually looks a lot like our old group, to settle
ON TAIBBI’S RANT
Read a brilliant column by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone yesterday in which he savagely attacks the whole election process for the time wasted, the money spent and the unending hype produced. He goes on to advocate that the whole
Krugman’s Lament
Paul Krugman, in Friday’s New York Times, brings up a point that I have railed about many times in this much less significant space. He comes at it from a different angle but it’s really the same rant. We