Funny isn’t it, how freedom rings. We slaughtered Indians in this land of the free — to make it our democracy. They slaughtered a tyrannical demagogue, a mass murderer who made political dissent reason for execution. Is the barbarous murder of the leader of such a vile regime wrong? Murder …
Sad Songs
I boarded my flight ready to sleep. Hope was dashed when I ended up next to a woman with a history of “working in government”. A history she was was ripe to share, with someone, anyone, preferably the person in the seat next to her — ME. I rank plane …
Red Eyes Monster Makers, Funerals, and Birthdays
I’ve seen a lot of airports lately. As a matter of fact I’m currently in another, waiting to board the red eyed monster maker. I miss my bed, but it’s not all bad. No, not at all. Airports give me time to contemplate death, dying, and funerals. By that I …
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Circa 2007
via Balloon Juice Professor Warren, in her capacity as a specialist in bankruptcy law, uses actual facts & statistics to back up her Cassandra predictions. Despite the Burkean vapors of Brooks & Doubthat, she pins the decline of the American middle class not to our moral decay and piggish consumerist …
Labor Day
Labor Day, according to Wikipedia a Federal Holiday now mainly celebrated as the end of summer. Though typically no one wants summer to end, this summer’s wretchedness has many applauding its passing. Here’s to hoping the autumn air blows off the stink of the summer of 2011. I’ll be traveling …
