I don’t pay much attention to advertising, especially TV adverts. Years of resenting the intrusion of advertising into the shows I watch have conditioned me to pay very little attention. Whenever I select a show to watch, I simultaneously select a second show to have as an alternate. By using the ‘previous channel’ button on […]
Over at The Smoking Gun I found this story about a woman in Jessup Iowa who was actually booked into the town jail for ripping off the library for a $13.95 book. Yes, the library deserves protection, and yes, it is wrong for anyone to just steal public property. But booking her into jail? It […]
I was browsing through the TimesOnline, which is the English Times of London online version. The story is about the ‘world’s first’ convertible auto/airplane. I don’t want to dive into the discussion of whether it’s the first or not because the story is incidental to this comment. My comment is more about the comments that […]
One of the guilty pleasures I’ve come to enjoy is a TV programme. Now that in and of itself is an unusual thing for me to say. As I’ve said before, I’m not much for TV. The networks are ridiculous, the ads are intrusive and most of the content is just not of much interest […]
I found this posting at American Thinker. I thought this was a light-hearted, yet telling poke at the press which is working so hard to insert itself into the political process this election season. A tip of the hat to the poster, BillG at American Thinker.
Someone sent this to me. I do not […]
Democracy is nothing more than an operating set of balances. The three branches of government were set up to be a perpetual “rock-paper-scissors” game, each having the power to stop the other. There is the constant struggle between the forces of freedom and the forces for regulation of freedom. It is that […]
Have a safe, pleasant and relaxing Memorial Day - and remember to think about our troops today. This day of relaxation is from them and for them.
A couple of people have filed suit (what else?) to keep the Large Hadron Collider, the big science project in Europe, from going fully operational. The LHC is supposed to get theoretical physicists closer to the conditions of the Big Bang than any other device ever built, and they hope it’ll help them detect […]
Two articles at World Net Daily point to some sort of problem in Wisconsin. The first is a follow-up on a report about a student at a Tomah Area School District who was penalised for handing in a project that contained a Biblical reference and depicted a cross. When the student told the […]
