Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on Russia in response to the takeover of Crimea, and threatened more actions. Meanwhile FOX News asks, “Is it enough?” Both positions are idiotic. In the case of the sanctions, what was passed were mostly a freezing of U.S. assets of Russian officials. The response from Russia has been
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
Pop Quiz: If a school’s students are passing math exams at a 52% higher rate than average, the city will… A) Encourage other schools to do whatever the successful school is doing B) Cut that school’s funding...
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
A thousand generations of parental caring stands behind a bargain with your mother. A hundred good experiences stand behind your reliance on a friend. And just as surely, the long shadow of the future hangs on your...
Monday, March 3rd, 2014
What the hell is going on in Ukraine? It’s a fair question. But not one likely to be answered on the “news.” Condemnations by politicians, calls for military threats, appeals to human interest, are mostly smoke. Much...
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
Erik Voorhees lost over half a million dollars last week in the collapse of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Here is his statement: Hello friends, MtGox is gone. So let’s prepare ourselves. On Tuesday, and for the rest...
Monday, February 17th, 2014
Here are two jokes that can no longer be told on TV. First, Bob Hope, a year after the passage of the 1975 Consenting Adult Sex Bill, told this one: “I’ve just flown in from California, where...
Monday, February 10th, 2014
Mention the word ‘slavery’ and most people think of the American South from the 1600s to 1800s. But in truth, the evil of slavery has afflicted mankind all over the planet, before and after that time. According...
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
In his State of the Union address, President Obama said he was going to “give America a raise.” Gee, what a nice guy. He explained that he was going to issue an executive order that federal contractors...
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
Why won’t those dummies on the other side smarten up and compromise by doing what we know is best? That is the state of politics in the US of A, and has been for some time now....
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has some interesting ideas about crime and punishment. He thinks that prisoners ought to be punished He doesn’t think taxpayers should pay any more than absolutely necessary Based on these “radical” viewpoints, Sheriff Joe...
Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time. Sometimes...
Monday, December 30th, 2013
Looks like the New York Times Paul Krugman has some new competition in the economic baboon championship. Last week, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post wrote, “The Federal Reserve Bank’s focus on keeping inflation below 2 percent...
Saturday, December 28th, 2013
“What you’re seeing is how a civilization commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. According to the self-described “Amazon feminist:” Americans undervalue manual labor, schools neuter male students, opinion makers deny the biological differences between men and women, the...
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
Edward Snowden says he feels like a winner despite the espionage charges against him. Denying that he is a traitor, Snowden said that he’s “already won” because society has begun to address the issue of government surveillance....
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” in the hope of earning enough money to pay off a debt. Dickens was obsessed with debt. His father had been imprisoned for debt, and Dickens was taken out of school...