Category Archives: Times a changing

What Was the Point, Russia?

To the ones who give the orders,
I read today that Russia is beginning it’s withdrawal from Georgia after beating a violent path to the city of Gori. But what destruction came at the hands of the Russians was nothing compared to the destruction caused by the Ossetia, Russia, and, in one case, Chechnya looters [...] Read more »

The Most Important Voter Issue For 2008 is…

Finally! Truth in the media. Hope you enjoy this bit of commentary from The Onion as much as I did.
 

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

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The Market is Down. What a Relief.

I’ve been a bit worried about the state of the market over the past month or so. All this talk and news reports on how bad off the economy is getting, big businesses losing their rear ends, high price of oil and food etc, so why wasn’t the overall market reflecting all this? What [...] Read more »

An Icon of an Age Passes On

George Carlin, the originator of the original Seven Dirty Words (upped to eleven as time went on if I remember correctly), the one comedian that’s followed me throughout the my entire life–is gone.
This is the end of an age indeed.
He broke all the rules and made us laugh while he did it. He showed us [...] Read more »

The Irish Have Their Say, Perhaps Save Themselves in the Process

The Irish have had their say in the ongoing process of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty much to dismay and obvious surprise of their government. I say surprise simply because the Irish government seemed to think that all they had to do was tell the electorate to “trust us” and vote “Yes”. Then when [...] Read more »

Pat Who for President?

Okay Folks I’ve finally made my decision. My Presidential candidate of choice is Pat Paulson. Yessir, I had a flashback to my younger years when good ol’ Pat ran for President and cried when he didn’t win and Mister, that’s honesty in politics if I ever saw it.
Now it’s not that the present day candidates [...] Read more »

Not Smart Enough to Vote for Obama?

Hillary Clinton won W. Virginia in what Adam Nagourney of the New York Times calls an electoral shellacking. Well, good for her, it’s about time. However, Barack Obama’s advisors are waving her win aside blatantly hinting at the fact the state is filled with white, uneducated(?!!?) people.
To wit:
Mr. Obama’s advisers downplayed the West Virginia loss, [...] Read more »

Lights Out!

We have to spend an hour today with our lights out? Hell, I’ve been been doing that my whole life, not just for an hour either. Those that know me keep saying that I’m always running with the lights out.
That’s not what they mean? Oh…sorry about that.
Check out Earth Hour. Sure it’s half over already [...] Read more »