My wife, Kathy, and I have a running argument about that bulbous lightning rod of public opinion - Michael Moore. I used to be a Moore fan (when I knew less about his methods - get it Moore and Less… ha, ha, ha I slay me), but a few years ago I gave up […]
This morning as I was getting my first dose of the day’s news, I was struck by the conversation between the BBC World host Dan Damon and an on-air correspondent/expert who were discussing today’s report of the execution by the Chinese of former government official Zheng Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu was executed after being convicted for […]
Ahh, summer time in the city…
Last night as my family and I were huddled down in the flammable 3-story victorian bomb shelter we call home in our “fashionable section” of the city of Cleveland, we watched and listened to the never-ending caucophony of firecrackers, bottle rockets, gunfire, roman candles, dynamite (I shit you not) and sundry other […]
With tomorrow’s holiday and the “out with the trash” approach by the Bush administration in announcing the President’s decision to commute the sentence of former Vice Presidential staffer Scooter Libby, I’ve been wondering what freedom means.
I mean Libby will be spending the 4th of July with his family instead of sitting in a jail cell […]
What else can I say other than occasionally, just occasionally the people who work for us actually do what they’re told. Yesterday’s failure of the shamnesty bill in the Senate (and the associated waving of the white flag by the White House on the issue) marked a victory for we the people. Then later in […]
Ah the sweet smell of failure.
This morning the current iteration of the immigration/amnesty bill died in the Senate as the proponents of this compromise legislation failed to earn the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture on the measure. What’s more encouraging is that they could not even muster a simple majority.
Today is a victory for the […]
Well the emails are already starting to roll in from the folks who think I was being unfair to Elizabeth Edwards in characterizing yesterday’s Hardball estrogen-laced verbal arm wrestling match with Ann Coulter as a stunt.
Here’s my favorite from 3:56 this morning:
How dare you question Elizabeth’s reasons for calling the Hardball program yesterday? Any mother in […]
Ann Coulter’s blithering statements designed to get attention, or Elizabeth Edwards calling Hardball to “politely ask” Coulter to stop making the statements?
I had a lot of respect for Elizabeth Edwards. I never had respect for Ann Coulter…
…now they’re in the same league.
Just got an email from my friend Barry Winovich. This weekend the Cleveland Wine Festival will be giving a portion of its proceeds to benefit Barry’s Bright Side of the Road Foundation which is dedicated to ALS prevention, education and treatment.
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, why not come down? Chill out […]
As the recent tragedy that befell a pregnant Ohio woman and her unborn child occupies the airwaves both locally and nationally, I’ve found myself fascinated by the terminology used by the different news outlets to describe the crimes committed and upon whom they were perpetrated.
Let me preface this by telling anybody who’s reading this (and unaware) […]
