If I were a teabagger, I wouldn't be eager to accept that Romney is inevitable either. But he is inevitable, small groups of dead-enders notwithstanding. Perry was already dead before his latest embarrassment and he was the last chance. You can't beat something with people...
Month: November 2011
On November 11, 1919, the people of Centralia, Washington, a small lumber town in the southwestern part of the state, celebrated the first anniversary of Armistice Day with a parade..
Now that the last combat veterans of World War I have passed, I'm ok with Veterans Day. Thanks to all those who have served.
I think every environmentalist is ecstatic to see the Obama Administration pull back on approving the Keystone XL pipeline, ordering it back into review at the State Department. Essentially, the pressure from environmentalists (and from factions within the Occupy movement, which helped publicize this) became...
That was the mantra of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s when we as a nation learned not to litter and that we shouldn't throw everything away. Of.
Shorter Verbatim Graham Spanier: "I have always acted honorably and in the best interests of the University." I...Jesus. What I said applies to his latest exercise in self-congratulation and self-exoneration..
Count me as one who is quite glad that William Tecumseh Sherman sufficiently recovered from his severe depression to burn Georgia and South Carolina.
I spend a lot of time around college students. As do all the writers of this blog and an impressive chunk of the readership. I feel like I know the.
Last Sunday I found myself in a twitter brawl after declaring that a nuclear armed Iran, while hardly ideal, would have no significant effect on the Middle East balance of.
I spoke too soon. Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach. Paterno said in a statement Wednesday that he would retire after the season,...
For some reason I feel compelled to post this again: ... and here's the video:
I'm about to take the worst kind of red-eye flight, i.e. the one that leaves at 6 so you don't get any sleep but it's morning when you land. But.