The Real Lessons of Labor Day
I found this article by Robert Reich on the web today. In the article, he complains: “Face it: The national economy isn’t escaping the gravitational pull of the Great Recession.” That’s because the...
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More on Lady Gaga
Found this article on the Internet today about the growing debate between young Lady Gaga and feminist Camille Paglia. Leading feminist author Camille Paglia, 63, has hit out at the singer’s...
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Why I Listen to Rush Limbaugh
I consider myself an intellectual, so, yes, I expect some blowback to my assertion that I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Even my conservative parents, who agree with him on economic issues, can’t stand him....
View ArticleA Get Well Soon Wish for Gabrielle Giffords
I’ve been avoiding the mainstream news show in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. News people tend to emphasize the positive and overlook the negatives in stories like these....
View ArticleGun Crazy
I was reading today’s column by Mark Steyn, and in it he’s talking about Dalton Trumbo. He credits Dalton as “the screenwriter of Spartacus, Exodus, and Roman Holiday,” but he leaves out what I think...
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David Brooks Has It Wrong
I like David Brooks, the moderately conservative columnist for the New York Times, but he’s missed the point in this week’s column on ‘The New Humanism.’ In that column, he writes: We emphasize things...
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Where I Get My News, and Why
When I was a much younger man, my father told me that casual conversation is built on topics like the weather and sports, but that I should avoid topics like politics and religion, since those topics...
View ArticleWhy I Like Twitter
So I’ve signed off of Facebook, and I told you why a few days ago. Today, I want to tell you why I switched to Twitter as a better social network for my purposes. The reason is simple: I have had bad...
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Steve Jobs’ Culture
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer...
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Response to Adam Luebke
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been...
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Goin’ to Brazil
The things statisticians will come up with to measure are simply amazing to me. This week they have measured where the people of the world are spending their cash. Take a look at alcohol and tobacco...
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Snoop Dog’s A Muslim
Found this today. The article reveals Snoop Dogg’s a Muslim. At Sunday’s event, the rapper sat on stage while Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave a speech. He said afterwards that listening to...
View ArticleThe Changing Media: My Father’s Generation
I found this oldie but goodie on 51 things your father should have taught you. My father taught me well, and one of the things he taught me was how to watch the news. Things have changed somewhat since...
View ArticleThe Changing Media: The Baby Boom Generation
The is a continuation of a post on the changing media atmosphere. The New Media of the 1960s In the 1960s, people were polite to one another in the media. They were not obsessed with the goings-on of...
View ArticleDeaf-Mutes in Chairman Mao’s China
I found this horrific post on Michael Berube’s blog. It concerns deaf-mutes in Mao’s China. They are robbed of their speech until the “Mao Zedong Thought Medical Team” brings Mao’s thoughts on health...
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Obama, IBD, and P-E Ratios
I read Investors Business Daily (IBD) daily because it satisfies me that their system works more perfectly than any I have ever found for the single purpose of picking stocks. That’s not to say that it...
View ArticleReply (and Apology, if Necessary) to Alan Reynolds
I suppose I ought to be more careful when I write, because, although I started writing this blog for the purpose of rehabilitating my stroke-ridden mind (and for no other purpose, really), people...
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The Return of the Bus Plunge
Today, I found this article, entitled “12 dead in S.Korea bus plunge,” on the web. As you can see from the headline, it is the story of 12 people who have been killed in a ‘bus plunge’ in South Korea....
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