I have never been one to muddle around in or, for that matter, even recognize the grey areas in any debate. Not that my perception or the position I take on issues is always correct, but my track record, based in the clarity of hindsight, is way better than the…
Rush Limbaugh wallowed in his self-produced muck last Tuesday as he blathered to his fans that Judge Roger Vinson, of the Federal District Court of Pensacola, Florida, had the right stuff to rule on the constitutionality of Health Care Reform. “After all”, Fat L blubbered, (I’m paraphrasing, the quotes are…
Thanks to a plethora of TV courtroom dramas, we are all aware of the essence of the 5th Amendment giving us the “Right to Remain Silent”. It’s intent was to protect individuals from self incrimination, although, truthfully, I’ve never understood why we need to be protected from ourselves. It seems,…
There were no primaries this week so a lot of talkers either took the week off or rehashed some old tired topics. Some were talking about the Middle East Peace Talks, (as if there was anything new to talk about); others talked about the nut job that hated the Discovery…
Did you hear? The war is over in Iraq. This feels a lot different to me than the end of Viet Nam, Desert Storm or even Grenada, except for the part where I’m ashamed of my country’s participation. As usual, on the positive vs negative checklist, the categories of useless…
I just spent a gloriously, (way-too-short), exhausting week with my six and two-year-old grandchildren. Although the visit also included many other loving members of my large family, (plus a wedding, some birthdays, peanut allergies, cookies, pie and an obstacle course), the energy, timetable, activities and mood swings were nearly exclusively…
There’s that ‘bliss’ reference and the “what you don’t know” presumption. Personally, I subscribe to the notion that probably has not made it into Bartlett’s yet, that, “ignorance is, well, just ignorant.” In a reverse anthropomorphic sense, we have become a flock of head-in-the-sand ratites choosing to remain blissfully ignorant…
There are many kinds of separation. There’s the pining separation from a loved one, the painful separation of flesh from bone, the boggling separation of anyone from their senses, the mysterious post partum separation and the fundamentally important, albeit fictitious, separation of church and state. One thing that troubles me about the…
ethics [ˈɛθɪks] n 1. (Philosophy) (functioning as singular) the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it; moral philosophy See also meta-ethics 2. (functioning as plural) a social, religious, or civil code of behaviour considered correct, esp that of a particular group, profession, or individual…
I did a little research to see if the term ‘polling’ existed prior to the rise to prominence, (so to speak), of the iconic porn star, John Holmes…it had, although the Holmesian variety, I realized, contained one less ell. One of the earliest political polls was a straw vote by The…