Month: October 2007

Thoughts of a Verizon Customer

Nothing increases my confidence in the communication systems set up by private enterprise than the knowledge that the company I buy services from would give information on me to federal investigators without a court order....

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Putin Sticks Finger in Neo-Cons’ Eye

Vladimir Putin is in Iran. And events there are going to make the Bomb Iran Contingent’s heads explode. The leaders of the five countries that border the Caspian Sea pledged at a conference in Tehran Tuesday not to allow...

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Obama Stands Up

I want to like Barack Obama. I want something to make me enthusiastic about voting for him. Yet, he hasn’t been showing me much. Today, he stepped up and did something to make me believe in him. He placed a hold on the...

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Notice a Pattern Here?

A far cry from the taunts of a “permanent republican majority” that we were hearing a few short years ago, there has been a major flurry of resignations and announcements of “early retirements” and “not seeking re-election” over...

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