I watched the development of a romance this evening. It wasn’t a story in a Hollywood movie, although it occurred in Hollywood.
This was the final debate between Hillary and Barack before Super Tuesday. Newsom reportedly attended the debate on behalf of Hillary but I didn’t see him in the audience.
Instead, I watched the two love [...]
Archive for January, 2008
21 reasons to invade Iraq
Posted in Current Events, Politics, Power, War, tagged Election Tactics, Iraq on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In its September/October issue, Foreign Policy (FP) magazine included a chart detailing 21 Rationales for War. Arrayed opposite the reasons is a list of the individuals who cited those reasons at one time or another.
Those cited were Bush, Cheney, Tom Daschle, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Richard Perle, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul [...]
Another ho-hummer
Posted in Current Events, Foreign Policy, Politics, Power, tagged Elections, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Presidential Debates, Ron Paul on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Republican presidential candidates’ debate yesterday evening was another exercise in listening to Mitt Romney’s monotonic, .50-caliber machine gun delivery. If the number of chug-chug-chugs per second is any criteria for success as commander in chief, Mitt wins hands down.
There were four candidates invited to participate in the “debate,” but only one active participant. Mitt [...]
Testing
Posted in Blogs, Current Events on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a test.
My Word 2007 crashes so often, I’m having trouble working up a post without the damned program going haywire.
So right now, I’m typing this on Word’s regular word processor instead of Word’s blog feature. I want to see how this looks on my site and check for unnecessary html, which tends to [...]
Shaping up: The way it might be
Posted in Age, Current Events, Foreign Policy, News Media, Politics, Power, War, tagged Clinton, McCain, Obama, Primary Elections, Romney on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The parties are moving closer to selecting their final candidates for the November presidential election, and as we observe the candidates and talking heads, we begin to get a sense of how the field is shaping up. Here is how it looks to us at the moment.
Democratic Party
A realistic assessment leads us to conclude that [...]
Moving to chic-dom
Posted in Current Events, Humor, Writing, tagged Beards, Chic, Sex Symbols on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two days ago, I decided to join the chic crowd.
My motivation? The words of a cashier in a checkout line who asked, “Are you growing a beard?”
“No,” I responded, “I just haven’t shaved in about a week.”
“Well, it looks good on you,” she said.
Her words set me to thinking. Why not become chic? Hell, unshaven [...]
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