It’s A Dogma Eat Dogma World
Check out almost any statehouse and legislature in this country – including Washington, DC. You will find an overabundance of single-issue extremists who, beyond the rigid orthodoxy of their beloved single issue, know almost nothing about governing intelligently. These orthodoxymorons have learned almost nothing about our collective history, or how we arrived at this crisis [...]
Return of the Dark Ages
I am most appalled by the ignorance and hubris exhibited by the current crop of asinine idiots recently elected (and almost elected) to various American governments – inspired, led, and urged to violence by the serial liars on talk radio and cable television. They rally behind the banner of “anti-intellectual” (as if they know what [...]
Ya Gotta Love Small Town America
1. The Courthouse Controversy The Warren County Commissioners have an edifice complex, so they decided to spend in excess of $6 million on a new courthouse to house all non-court related county offices. This in the face of decreasing tax revenues, and ignoring the numerous empty storefronts that could be refurbished within walking distance of [...]
The Mother’s Milk of Politics: Money Grubbing and Mud Slinging
Many people object to them; some say they refuse to vote for anybody who runs them (right!); others say they are a symptom of the erosion of decency and ethics in contemporary political discourse. (Have they ever studied the elections of 1796 and 1800, when real mud-slinging was invented? How about the ugly, racist lies [...]