The man behind the curtain?

Former VP Cheney just can’t seem to stay home and write his memoirs now that he’s been released from his undisclosed location.  That’s what other Former VPs have done.  But Cheney is eager to stay in the public eye.  Is he trying to take some sort of revenge against George W. Bush for not pardoning [...]

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So, liking Dijon mustard makes me an elitist. Hmmm…

They say confession is good for the soul.  So here’s mine.  I also prefer Dijon mustard to the yellow kind.  I guess that makes me an elitist.  And, horror or horrors, if yellow mustard is the only kind available, I’ll do without — even on a hotdog.
This whole “controversy” about President Obama’s ordering spicy or [...]

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The drift towards irrelevancy

This morning I came across an article on Politico that’s worth reading.  Seems that despite their drubbing in the last two general elections, the Republican party continues to drift to the right.  Meanwhile, the majority of the electorate is moving the other direction.  While the country as a whole, county by county, is actually a [...]

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And the “let them eat cake” awards keep coming

Today it’s Vikram Pandit of Citibank’s turn, and he gets a “twofer.”  Mr. Pandit announced recently that Citibank has turned around and begun to show a profit.  And he talked proudly of how he was being responsible and taking a much lower salary of only $1 million.  Great, we thought, now he can start repaying [...]

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Science is cool again

Yesterday, President Obama announced that science is once again COOL!  He signed a memo declaring that science would guide decisions by his administration, not ideology.
And no sooner did he announce that than Eric Cantor came out blustering that taxpayer money would be wasted on unproven research.  One wonders whether Rep. Cantor is that ignorant, of [...]

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Possibly unrelated items – updated

As I scanned the news tonight, several items caught my eye.
First was this list of the 15 states having the highest percentage of $200,000 plus earners.  Interestingly, only one of the states listed, Texas, voted for John McCain last November.  The others voted for Obama, even knowing that their taxes would go up should he [...]

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Catalyze. He said catalyze!

More evidence that our new president is an educated adult.  Not only that, but he thinks we’re adults, too.  When President Obama used that word last night, I whooped with joy. Not only that, but he pronounced nuclear proliferation correctly, without even the hint of a stumble.  So nice to have an adult in charge.
Listening [...]

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Ongoing stimulus debate

A commenter suggested that the funds allocated to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus package) would be better spent by handing out checks to each person.  The final package comes to a bit less than $800billion or just under $2300 per person, not the $25,000 suggested in the comment.   The commenter also [...]

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On the road to that one vote

The California budget has passed — 106 days of stalemate have been broken.
An interesting tidbit surfaced yesterday — the state senate minority leader was ousted from his position.  He had been one of the Republican senators who was willing to buck his party.  True to recent form, he was replaced by someone who is more [...]

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Stimulus vote post-mortem

Each week my local paper encourages readers to have their say on a particular issue.  While it’s certainly not a scientific survey, it does provide some amusing and maddening reading.  Many of the same people voice their opinions on a weekly basis, and given the frequency with which their comments appear, I figure there aren’t [...]

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