A Short Defense of Welfare |
There is little justice in any nation's welfare system. Let's face it -- someone is getting something for nothing from people who earned that money and had it taxed from their paychecks. Most citizens...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:52:00 GMT |
Unfathomable, Ridiculous, Beyond Belief |
The subject line is paraphrasing someone critical of evolutionary science that I recently met on the internet. This person could not believe that genetic mutations and speciation have produced the lif...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:14:00 GMT |
Vote or Revolt |
I have several friends who claim that they do not vote, and all for this general reason: "My choices are between a liar and a liar, a corporate-stringed puppet or a corporate-stringed puppet, someone ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:02:00 GMT |
X-Prize Cup 2007 |
The air shows were spectacular, the hardware on display phenomenal, the exhibits pretty darn good, the Lunar Lander Challenge. . . abysmal from a spectator's point of view. And that's what I had come ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:49:00 GMT |
In the Shadow of History |
Most people don't examine their place on the timeline of global human history. Understandable, there's laundry to be done, perhaps a hobby to be attended to. People living in the late 1400s in Spain w...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:16:00 GMT |
Betrayal of a Dead Friend |
I called him Saturday morning specifically to check on his status to make a judgement call on when to schedule our trip to say goodbye. Biff was in Hospice dying of leukemia. Would he last a month? Mo...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:33:00 GMT |
On This Memorial Day . . . |
Let us respect the troops, and do what we can to bring them home safe.
From today's New York Times:
"To Sergeant O'Flarity [Delta Company, stationed in Iraq], the Iraqi security forces are mil...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 15:12:00 GMT |
Junk Food Tax |
Has anyone else thought of this? Certainly no presidential candidate would dare propose raising ANY taxes. I would. In fact, I emailed the idea to Jennifer Grandholm, governor of Michigan. My former h...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:12:00 GMT |
Iraq: More troops will just make things worse |
Seems Congress doesn't have the brains or the balls to stop the surge. Why do so many forget the lessons of history? We kept pouring more and more troops into Vietnam, untill we had over 600,000 stati...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:56:00 GMT |
Absurdity |
So I was looking at a photo from the Hubble Space Telescope yesterday. It was one of those deep field shots that contained about 10,000 galaxies in the frame, some as old as just over a billion years ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:39:00 GMT |
