Near Snow Experience
2014-11-16 – You call this snow? Nat did. Kit and I visited Nat yesterday in Beloit, WI, where he goes to school. He was complaining about the unseasonable cold and […]
Tag Archives: Culture
The News is Not “Reality TV”
2014-20-13 – Voter turnout this year was the lowest that it’s been since 1942. We complain about Republican efforts to suppress the vote through voter ID laws, cutting hours at […]
Waste Not, Want Not
2014-11-09 – Right-wingers love to complain about waste in government. Now I’m not going to disagree about this. I am not going to defend waste. Of course, it all depends […]
Listen, O Israel!
2014-11-02 – Good Morning Daylight Wasting Time! Isn’t that what you should call it? It’s the alternative to Daylight Savings Time. We are now plunging into the darkness of winter. […]
I’m Being Followed Around by a Eureka Hand-Held Vacuum
2014-10-23 – I am being followed around by a Eureka hand-held vacuum cleaner. And it sucks! It’s not the actual vacuum cleaner. It’s an ad for the vacuum cleaner that […]
The Purfuit of Happinefs
2014-10-21 – Don’t know if Thomas Jefferson coined the phrase “the pursuit of happiness,” but he surely made it popular when he included it in the Declaration of Independence: We […]
Getting Married Is Like Jumping Off a Cliff
2014-10-07 – Getting married is like jumping off a cliff. One moment you’re on solid ground, then next moment you are walking on air. And there are no Wile E […]
The Firewall Against Ebola—It’s the Government
2014-10-02 – No you don’t have Ebola. And you’re not going to get it either—unless you go to West Africa. Not in the United States. Why? Because we have effective […]
Happy Diogenes Day Eve!
2014-09-30 – Tomorrow, October 1, is Diogenes Day, the annual day devoted to the truth. In the spirit of the truth, I give you the final verse of Robert Burns […]
Next Phase in the Fight Against Gay Marriage
2014-09-28 – Activists on both side of the gay marriage debate are anticipating big changes from the US Supreme Court in its new term that begins this week. On the […]
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