The Pope’s recent speech has started the hornets flying, stingers out. I’ve been wondering if this was going to die down. Current indications are that it will not. Like all offended minority groups, a signficant portion of Muslim leaders have decided to be offended by this speech. I say decided because that surely must be…
Op-Ed Blog
5 Years Later
Americans often have short memories, as shown by a recent CNN poll that people are shifting their blame from Clinton to Bush in regard to 9/11. Many do not, however, and a cool thing is happening in the blogosphere today – blog-based tributes to the victims who died that day. Here are some: Matthew Vianna,…
The Future of Food
Rick Strahl writes an pretty good, seat-of-his-pants programming blog. But today he’s talking about the commoditization of food. Scary…
Where Would We Be?
Great Question, Dick… Dick Cheney says that “the fact is, the world is better off today with Saddam Hussein out of power” and that we should be grateful and “Think where we’d be if he was still there.” Polimom, a Houston-area blogger of some note called gives an him answer I can’t take issue with….
A Female-only College No More
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College is going co-ed, to the dismay of its students. It’s amusing as hell that chicks broke down the door at the Citadel and virtually every other males-only organization in the country but now whine when the shoe they threw drops on them.
3 Years Ago…
…I wrote this slam in response to a newspaper column by Ana Veciana-Suarez about child care.
Mandatory Organ Donation
Elizabeth Chapman says that “Organs should belong to public, not deceased“. The thing is, after a person dies, the body isn’t really his own to donate or keep to himself. No matter how one looks at it, property rights are for the living. … The disconcerting truth is that, after death, human bodies are as…
3 Years Ago This Week…
I wrote this about the war in Iraq. Choice quote: “What I wonder is how long it will be before we’re training and turning out respectable numbers of Iraqis capable of defending their own country? Will this in fact ever be possible?” I still wonder. And I doubt it.
Bad Time for a Strike
US Airways machinists must be living in a different country than I am. They’ve rejected the airline’s offer of a minimal wage cut. Read about it on MSNBC.com Any job is a good job at this particular moment.
Illegal Wiretaps Bad…Ya Think?
The Constitution got a bit of good news today as a judge invalidated W’s illegal wiretapping operation. This isn’t the end of the story, I suspect, as the decision is already under appeal. Bill Frist says: “Terrorists are the real threat to our constitutional and democratic freedoms, not the law enforcement and intelligence tools used…