February 10, 2005
Do You See What I See?
Sometimes I feel like the little boy in the cortege at the end of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
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January 30, 2005
The Purple Badge Of Freedom
When they write the History of the 21st Century, George W. Bush and his Presidency will not be ignored. At least that much is true.
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January 16, 2005
Where We Stand Today
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.
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January 8, 2005
A Name Game
I fully intended to sit down tonight and write about the courage of California Senator Barbara Boxer, who stood on the floor of the US Senate today and demanded, alone among her 99 fellow senators, that our government take notice of its democratic obligations.
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November 28, 2004
Getting Better All The Time
The British statesman Leonard Henry Courtney noted in 1895,
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November 15, 2004
Choose Your Poison
As the great man himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan, would say, “There you go again.”
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November 10, 2004
A Fade To The Finish
When I was a sophomore in college, a friend of mine’s father came to town to watch a horse he owned run in the Louisiana Derby. It was an exciting week. We got full privileges at the racetrack and spent lots of time hanging around the paddock with Dr. K and his horse trainer, watching Spartan Emperor get put through his paces, getting the inside dope on the mysterious world of high-stakes thoroughbred horse racing.
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November 3, 2004
The Horror, The Horror
America no longer has a Bible Belt.
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October 28, 2004
Sports Update
From the “I Just Have To Say” Sports Desk:
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October 23, 2004
The Fear & Ad Hominem Approach
With ten days to go before a presidential election billed on both sides as the most important in a generation, our incumbent’s desperation is on full display. Sadly for John Kerry, who, barring outright election fraud, should receive enough popular and electoral college votes on November 2nd to become the next President of the United States, any victory will be a pyrrhic one.
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