Romney, There You Go Again

Romney, There You Go Again

by | Feb 24, 2012 | 0 comments

I said I’d never do it but I did.  I watched another episode of the long running  political comedy called The GOP Primary Debates-2012.  I can’t explain why I did it.  There were some perfectly good basketball games on as well as some reruns of NCIS that I had only seen three or four times.  I guess it must have been the Icarus effect.  I won’t insult your intelligence by retelling the story of hubris and arrogance that led Icarus….suffice it to say, I couldn’t help myself. I knew I was going to have a problem with this one though because the field is now reduced to four, which means that each of them would have more time to talk.  I don’t mind listening...
Sticks and Stones…

Sticks and Stones…

by | Feb 1, 2012 | 0 comments

My first memory of name calling is personal.  I was in the third grade in Anchorage, Alaska and a fifth grader called me “a little spic” or maybe it was “little wop”.  I wouldn’t have known what either meant, but I knew by the way he said it, it wasn’t good.  I reacted the only way I knew.  I jumped him.  This wasn’t really very smart for the next thing I knew he was on top of me rubbing my face in the snow telling me I had to say ”UNCLE”.  I took me about three tenths of a seconds to figure out that saying “uncle” quickly would prevent me from suffering a lot of pain and further indignation. Sidebar:  I leaned two important lessons.  You could both talk your...