by admin | Mar 26, 2009 |
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to put up with it any more.” So spake the little remembered Eddie Chiles, former owner of the Texas Rangers, Western Supply, and past seeker of the governorship of the great State of Texas. Today he would be a good running buddy for those members of the 5th estate, howling public masses, and driveling politicians who compose the latest screech of public opinion demanding the economic lynching of the recipients of the so called “stay bonus” from AIG. At the risk of being accused of being a corporate apologist, let me say that I’ve rarely seen so much heat with so little light. Perhaps that should be excused in the case of...
by admin | Mar 16, 2009 |
I’ve long had a love affair with languages, and the fact that I have no ear or particular talent for languages not my own has deterred me not one whit. My first encounter with another language was on the playground in elementary school in San Angelo. Of course the words I learned, or maybe just repeated, would make your average parson blush. They, in English, ran to “Do you want to fight” or worse, “f***k your mother”. I, of course, knew not what I was saying, but if they could say it to me, I could say it to them, and I sounded really good. For some mysterious reason, I took Latin in the 8th grade and can still recite the opening passage of Caesar’s...
