by admin | Dec 18, 2009 |
I was signing some Christmas cards and thinking of the Merry Christmas and Happy New Year that we throw around so lightly at this time of year, and started to wonder what do we really mean when we say Happy New Year. Certainly we don’t mean it as an adjective modifying the noun, because it’s non-sensical to think that something inanimate, such as a new year, can be happy. Everyone knows that only people or puppies can be happy. And I am happy. Flat out. No doubt about it. If you would have asked me, I may have had a hard time defining happiness or even why I am happy, but there you are, I am happy. Having gone this far, however, I decided to go a bit...
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 | 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...
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...
