Random Observations about...
October 2003

Daylight Savings Time

Who's idea is Daylight Savings Time? What's the point? I don't know, and haven't Googled on this one, but that doesn't stop me...

You Know It's Not Funny When...

BBC is running a promo for "The Office." In it, they have people explaining exactly why the show is supposed...

Why Boycott Cuba or China?

Recently, a friend of mine said he didn't agree with politically or economically isolating despotic regimes. This is my answer as to why I agree with economic sanctions and boycotts...

Who is worse: US or China? Australia: The U.S.!

Who is a greater threat to the world today, the US or China? Apparently in Australia, the answer is the...

Grocery Strike: A Union Employee Responds

This morning, someone who appears to be a St. Louis grocery store union employee responded to my previous screed on...

Paul Manufactured the Christian Jesus!

There's a popular "meme" going around about the nature and origins of Christianity. But it flies in the face of the evidence it purportedly cites.

St. Louis Grocery Store Strike: Schnucks, Dierbergs, Shop 'n Save Insult Intelligence, Attempt Dirty Tricks, Ruin Public Image on Random Observations

A falsified comment blows up in its author's face. Not pretty, not pretty at all. But darned funny...

Filthy Rich Republicans!

Thomas Sowell uses election returns as further evidence of how innacurate the "Rich Republican" myth is...

Had an Epiphany? Please submit Federal Form A5834/3, "Permission to Change Religion" and we'll mull it over...

Yet another event reminds me why I'm grateful to live under the US Constitution, and grateful our judges haven't completely "intepreted" it's fundamental rights away just yet...

The Great St. Louis Grocery Store Strike

Those of you from other parts of the world may not be aware of it, but in St. Louis we're having a little grocery store strike at the moment...

I *Like* a Boring Life

Something odd happened to me on my way to REM sleep early this morning...

Diversity Day Aftermath

As mentioned previously, yesterday was "Diversity Day" at a friend's workplace. She's a sharp girl, but not the kind of...

Diversity Day!

Tomorrow is "Diversity Day" for a friend of mine who works for state government. Her workplace had asked different people,...

The World Trade Center

I stayed in the World Trade Center for half a week in the spring several years. In fact, I stayed in the Hilton, on about the eighth floor. I still have the door key...

Packers: 35, Seahawks: 13

I love football. In what other sport does a team owned by a small-town Veterans for Foreign Wars post have...

How to Write Like a Liberal

The Nation's Katha Pollit says conservatives can't take it when people disagree with them. Oh really?

Dirty Tricks Thursday: More Election Bias as the L.A. Times

Jill Stewart comments on the L.A. Time's bias: They sent two teams to investigate old charges Ahnold had groped women,...

The Need for a Liberal Voice

Liberals explain their need to completely dominate the one remaining format that isn't nearly or completely biased their way...

Exposing Secret Anglican Plans

I'm not Anglican, but it has been instructive to see how the battle between liberals and conservatives has played out...

The Great CNN/Krugman Suckup

Wow... I just witnessed the tail end of a nauseatingly fawning interview of "Princeston Economist Extrodinaire" (real quote, I'm not...

Michael Moore on Small Business

We think of Michael Moore, defender of smalltown America, as the opponent of huge, faceless business which put the "little...

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