by admin | Aug 19, 2009 |
I’ve been watching political town halls late. Yes, I know that it’s geeky and more than a little strange. I would counter that it’s political theatre of the highest order. Wow. The anger, the finger pointing, the squinting of eyes, and yes, screaming and shouting. It makes you think that maybe we got the 1st Amendment wrong. None of us who are drawing breath and have electricity can have avoided images of citizens remonstrating, protesting, shouting, and arm waving at their political representatives, and the cameras lurking nearby at these so called Town Hall meetings. These gatherings were ostensibly intended to engage in a civil...
by admin | Jun 30, 2009 |
There has been much hoo ha-ing about the American Clean Energy and Security Act recently passed by our esteemed House of Representatives. But as far as I can tell, no one really knows what it’s all about. In fact, the GOP minority leader (who was on his way back to the Rayburn building from a meeting of the Flat Earth Society) referred to the nine hundred page document as, “a pile of s**t”. Which I guess, could describe much of the legislation that’s been produced over the last two hundred years. That a republican would publicly disdain legislation Obama wanted is not surprising, and it’s not even surprising that he couldn’t explain what was in it, but it...
by admin | May 27, 2009 |
Some of you intrepid readers have advised me to stick to “funny stuff” and leave serious discussion to others. That’s advice I’ve more or less adhered to with few exceptions. I ask for an exception for this blog, however, under the theory that the practice of jurisprudence, particularly in the big leagues of the Supreme Court, often devolves into pretty funny stuff. Take the Sotomayor hearings for example. There was an awful lot of funny stuff, most of which emanated from the old white men (and a few old white women) asking the same questions over and over and over again. The term judicial activism was thrown around as an epithet repeatedly. Most often it...
by admin | Apr 13, 2009 |
The most persistent of you patient readers may recall my previous writings on springtime critters. If not, I refer you to Springtime: It’s: It’s Not All a Bed of Roses published March 28, 2007 wherein I recounted the life and death of the most vernal of creatures….the June Bug (Melonthinae Phyllophago). My attention was redirected to this virulent springtime pest when I approached my office at the ranch yesterday morning and learned that I had not only failed to close the door tightly, but I’d also neglected to turn the lights off. Both of those failures were more than enough for S. to commit me to the penalty box for a five minute major, but worse...
