IN GOES SENATOR CRAIG AND STICKS HIS TOOTSIE UNDER THE WALL TO PLAY A LITTLE FOOTSIE, AND OUT POPS THE UNDERCOVER COP TO ARREST HIM
In a perfect world, I wouldn’t be writing about some guy from Idaho getting arrested for “lewd” homosexual acts in the bathroom at the Minneapolis airport.  But this isn’t a perfect […]

ONCE AGAIN SCIENCE TRIUMPHS OVER SUPERSTITION
In the what if department, could any of the more devote of our readers explain to me how this tooth can be one million years old when we are told again and again that the world is only six thousand years old? Is the good book wrong or […]

WE NOW HAVE INSURANCE COMPANIES DICTATING THE MAJOR HEALTH ISSUES OF OUR TIME
We are in the midst of a health care crisis in our country. 
In fiscal 2005, nearly 16% of our population had no health insurance.
According to CBS News, right now, a full 25% of the children of our country do not receive adequate health […]

WE ARE EXPERIENCING THE DEPARTURE OF A TELEVISION PERSONALITY FROM A SUCCESSFUL SHOW DUE TO HER EXPRESSING A POLITICAL OPINION.
Do you remember Al Campanis?
Campanis was a widely respected coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.  On his death, Al Campanis was remembered by former Dodgers manager, Bill Russell, who said “He was just […]

THEY ARE OFTEN DENOUNCED BY TRUE CONSERVATIVES, MEN LIKE LEE IACOCCA AND WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
They are not the flesh eating ants of the seminal 1950s horror move. 
They are, however, as destructive, insidious and, yes, as monstrous as those ants.  Worse yet, unlike the creations of Hollywood’s special effects department, these monsters are real.
Who are […]

EVERYONE SHOULD HEAR WHAT JUDGE YOUNG HAD TO SAY 
The following relates to Richard Reid, the shoe bomber arrested as an agent of al Qaeda.  It is the story of his sentencing, but it also illustrates why I believe that Denis Kucinich (D-OH) is too naive to be the Democratic candidate for […]

IMUS IN THE MORNING – NOT!
It was very difficult to see the self immolation of Don Imus culminate in what may be the end of his career.  But, perhaps the time has come for him to go.  He began his career as a shock jock humorist, and, somehow, ended as a political […]

NO OFFENSE FOLKS, BUT IMUS HAS NEVER MADE A SECRET OF WHO HE IS
As a young man growing up in New York in the 1960s, I woke up every morning to the sounds of the Good Guys on WMCA radio. The morning man was Joe O’Brien, a guy who made you feel […]

 AND THAT’S OK.  OR MAYBE IT ISN’T
Every year, twice a year, in fact, I have an experience that makes me feel like a stranger in my own land.  It usually happens in December and April, and the discomfort that I feel is palpable.
The people perpetrating the offense have no malice in their […]

MY FEELINGS FOR THESE TWO PEOPLE, POLITICALLY, DOES NOT ALTER MY WISH THAT THEY BOTH SURVIVE AND RETURN TO HEALTH
With all that is going on in the Bush Administration, we have all forgotten some of our humanity.  Republicans are busy defending their president, while Democrats are seeking to get to the bottom […]