GOP: Silence Speech November 21, 2009

Silence debate. That’s what the GOP Senate fat cats who pay $500 for their comprehensive health care wanted. America won tonight. The hurdles placed in the way of a rule requiring health insurance are absurd. Not just the constant cacophony of lies from certain business interests: Who would expect any less? But silencing speech on [...]

Obama and Microsoft Mistaken August 22, 2009

I like Obama and I can’t stand Microsoft. One hurts himself, the other hurts many. For twenty years, Saturday morning promised a radio update from the president and a response from the opposition. Shortly after Obama took office, the radio update switched to something like 6 am and the Internet. The radio update at a [...]

Picking on Frightened Sarah Palin August 9, 2009

First she drops her job because of an imaginary problem with sticking with it. Now she’s frightened by a bill that doesn’t exist? Can they get a medic for her, stat? There is no euthanasia bill in Washington, Sarah! Completing your job is the honorable thing to do! Just in case she hasn’t had time [...]

Next: Banish Sports Snouts from Public Troughs February 28, 2009

In the Washington region, there is a constant stream of sports teams demanding stadiums from the DC, Maryland or Virginia governments.  Meanwhile, they pay their employees salaries way above the President’s.  Ill-tempered and bad-mannered employees, that is, who would be fired from any other job. Even bankers, as a group, behave better than the sports [...]

New York Violins February 23, 2009

After screwing the country and small shareholders for years and getting ultra-rich on mania-mergers, Wall Street now objects to the nationalization of banks. Instead of thanking all of us. Heck, screw them — let them declare bankruptcy if they don’t want our help. Let all the super-merged companies declare bankruptcy as they see fit. What’s [...]

Stop the Bailout: Instead … January 30, 2009

Stop the bailout. Lend money to employers to retain employees. Money will trickle up.

Beware the Digital TV January 26, 2009

Installing the DTV converter boxes is easy. Getting a decent, persistent reception is the tricky part. The impossible part. Why don’t the spokespeople urging conversion own up to the downsides? Do they use converters?  I wish they would. The reception is occasionally as advertised: clear picture, albeit small. Decent, but not better, sound. Most of [...]

Two for the Environment January 26, 2009

Unbelievable. Only a few days into the new administration, NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, discovers that we’re damaging the ozone layer for a 1000 years. What happened in the past eight years? Did the researchers have the results but were muzzled? On public TV, channel 26, a speaker for the car makers complains that the [...]

Old Animals January 26, 2009

Among the Washington area rocks, I found these: Basically, an iron or heavy metal plate with things that look like maritime animals and could fit into Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. I found more such plates. Should I smelt them for my upcoming Spearworks BC Ltd.? Or send them somewhere for research? This [...]

Abducted to Guantanamo January 25, 2009

Does their opposition to the United States, or their mere presence in a US-made war zone, make persons in Guantanamo terrorists? Aren’t they political prisoners and abductees rather than terrorists? If they are suspected of terrorist activities, aren’t they political prisoners suspected of terrorism and abductees suspected of terrorism? Calling them terrorists is wrong. The [...]