Archives for December, 2005
Shoes, It’s Raining Shoes
The first shoe to drop in the sordid (and wonderfully cinematic) tale of graft and corruption in the Congress was Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff’s sometimes business partner, occasional bagman and…
Writing in Silence, Editing at Risk
Who could find Belarus on a map, or even knows such a country exists? I live in Europe, the second country to the left and below Belarus and had to…
Encouraging Responsibility (Yours, Not Mine)
All you displaced poor folks, listen up! Ol’ Joe Barton, Representative in Washington for those proud Texans hailing from Arlington, which is just barely a smidge to the west of…
Taking a Bead on Bambi
First Walt Disney and after that the outpouring of Saturday morning cartoon fare for children has raised us a generation of non-hunters. The Bambi-Generation, well-meaning but uninformed, they see each…
Don’t Talk About Leaders, I want to Hear About Lenders
President George has reawakened to the reality of New Orleans once again. It must have to do with his going to the ranch for Christmas. Memories there on the high…
Entrapped By French Philosophy, Without a Clue
And who would strike us clueless but a Frenchman and aren’t they all Frenchmen, these mystery thinkers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Darrida. And now, come to haunt us on…
Senator Proxmire and the Golden Fleece
Fifty years ago a Wisconsin Senator by the name of William Proxmire took his seat in that hallowed chamber called the United States Senate and for the next 31 years…
Major Ben Connable Checks In
Major Ben Connable has written to me through his friend, who copied and pasted the note and forwarded it to me; all a bit deep cover for my taste, but…
Following Up on the Elusive Ben Connable
Something in my December 14th Who and Where is Ben Connable must have struck a nerve out there in cyberspace, a place that tends toward nervousness. I got an e-mail…
America May Strike Out at the World Baseball Classic
Baseball is America’s game but it traditionally does some really odd things. For me, one of those oddities is calling the championship a World Series. If it were truly that,…