Yankee great Yogi Berra, a humble and wise man, once said, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” One thing Berra did say was “It ain’t over til it’s over.” It’s on his plaque in Yankee Stadium.
The plaque also calls Berra a “legendary Yankee.” While it is true that he is one of the greatest [...]
Category Archives: Politics
2010 Mission Accomplished Awards
03-Mar-10The Great Chili Debate
07-Oct-09Last Saturday I won the Candlewood Lions annual Chili Contest (individual category). This is a big deal for me and makes up for my lack of a Nobel Peace Prize for now. If you missed it, you missed a lot of great chili.
The Chili Contest is an annual event. Every two years it’s a little [...]
The American Way of Life
06-Oct-09This bit has been floating around the Internet. Dastinct found it, here it is.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned [...]
This isn’t the column I was planning to write this week. All I wanted to do was celebrate the magic of today’s date: 9/9/9.
I was all set with a pile of facts, starting with: when you multiply any number by nine and add up the digits of the result, you’ll always end up with nine.
All [...]
Obama v The Religious Right
04-Jun-09President 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 [...]
