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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Anniversaries

09-Jun-09

“Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.”
– Oscar Wilde

Six years ago a snapping turtle walked across my lawn and inspired the inaugural edition of this column.
I don’t expect anyone to care because six is not a [...]

Sunday Night Movie

07-Jun-09

Here’s how Microsoft would package the iPod.

Obama v The Religious Right

04-Jun-09

President Obama made a speech in Cairo today that was mostly directed at Muslims. At one point he quoted from an early American treaty with Morocco:

In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility [...]

Sotomayor v Gingrich

03-Jun-09

For those of you wondering whether Gingrich had taken Sotomayor out of context, you were right. And the media has done nothing to clear it up, even though the media is not under the 140-character limitation that Twitter imposed on Gingrich.
One hundred forty characters is just an excuse, of course. Gingrich deliberately took Sotomayor out [...]

One Nation Indivisible

02-Jun-09

Let’s not allow two little words to come between us.
It would be a shame, after all that we have been through together. From the Founding, when we stood together and knew that if we were divided, we’d fall.
We are one nation, indivisible. We don’t need more than that. But you insist, you say two more [...]