I've been trying to wrap my head around the BP oil spill in the Gulf. It's truly a sad and unfortunate chain of events, where many trails of responsibility ultimately broke down. BP, TransOcean, various government agencies and ultimately to the very top of our government itself. This is not meant to take away from the ...
Tag Archive: Current Affairs
Softball prodigy commits suicide
It's been bugging me for the past several days and has to be one of the saddest stories I've ever read: Brianne Matthews. How does one begin to explain or simply understand why a young lady who holds the world in the plam of her hand would commit suicide? Honestly, I don't think you can. There simply ...
Chile’s earthquake may speed earth’s rotation
Oh for the love of God, can we just go back to worrying about global warming. Heck what's it all matter anyway - all life parishes on December 23, 2012 or there about. Anyway for those of you without enough to worry about: Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth.
Claire McCaskill gets it
Re: the "manufactured health care mob" Claire McCaskill seems to get it (via twitter), even though most of her party doesn't. It gets pretty interesting when the politicians of a representative republic lose their way or perhaps intentionally stop listening to those ...
Glad to meet you, I’m Negative Nancy
So today I'm Negative Nancy, all because I pointed someone to Preston Gralla's article, "Why Chrome OS Will Turn to Lead". They didn't even want to hear a differing opinion, sorta like sticking your head in the sand pretending all is right in the world, I guess. I don't know if Gralla is ...
Spector becomes a Democrat – again
Anyone surprised that Arlen Spector would switch political party, yet again to win an election? Personally, I'd rather see the Dems hold 90 seats in the Senate than keep just one of these so called moderates. Now, lets go chase out the rest of the pollution. And as naive as it sounds, if you have no ...
John Adams understood the rich could be victimized
It is agreed that "the end of all government is the good and ease of the people, in a secure enjoyment of their rights, without oppression;" but it must be remembered, that the rich are people as well as the poor; that they have rights as well as others; that they have as ...
A boy and his dog
I couldn't help but post this. Yes I know it's all over the internet, but having grown up with a pit bull (mix) before folks starting wiggin' out about them, it sort a strikes close to home. I wasn't as young as this little boy, maybe ...
The demise of Capitalism
When one considers the spectacular success, the unprecedented prosperity, that capitalism has achieved in practice (even with hampering controls) -- and when one considers the dismal failure of every variety of collectivism -- it should be clear that the enemies of capitalism are not motivated, at the root, by economic considerations. They are motivated by ...
Election — thankfully that’s over
There were days when I thought this election would never end, but fortunately, time marches on and the end has in fact come. I try to keep the political posting to a minimum around here, but a few leaked out recently, so I figured it's worth a wrap up. I'll keep it short. This past elections ...
