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 | 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 | 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 | Sep 30, 2008 |
In the last few days I’ve heard the number trillion used more than I can ever recall. In the instances where I can recall hearing trillion used it was always in a statement like, “there must be a trillion grains of sand on the beach”, or “I’ve tried to balance my check book a trillion times, and it’s always off”. I don’t recollect people using the designation trillion when talking about something specific as in, “those crazy idiots in congress are going to cost us a trillion dollars with this bailout”. But now that I think about it, the number trillion has been used increasingly for some time to describe stuff. For example: 1. The gross domestic product...
