More Stuff You Can’t Make Up

When I grow up, I want to write police blotter reports for the local paper! From the Tucson Weekly, Feb 19, 2009: Police Dispatch By Anna Mirocha Semi-Insane East Benson Highway, Jan. 21, 7:04 p.m. A lone woman, possibly impaired by serious alcohol or drug ingestion, put her own life in danger and annoyed many […]

Is Wall Street the Symptom . . . or the Problem?

It seems like whenever the news is good, the stock market tanks.  Unemployment down?  Stocks plummet.  Wages up?  Stocks plummet.  Orders for durable goods up?  Stocks plummet.  New home starts up?  Stocks plummet.  And now the new administration gets a stimulus package stuffed with tax cuts through the senate . . . and stocks plummet. […]

Only the Little People Pay Taxes

First of all, Barack Obama needs to replace Rahm Emanuel: discovering that Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer were tax cheats was his job, and he failed to do it.  He certainly wouldn’t be my chief of staff any longer. This whole rich-people-don’t-pay-taxes thing has got to stop.  We’ve been having our noses rubbed […]

Bread & Circuses (Updated)

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this Hero Pilot stuff is spinning out of control?  I dunno, it hits me as wrong.  Mawkish, lowest common denominator, on-display-for-your-beer-guzzling-delectation wrong. I’m surprised Sullenberger’s going along with all this.  It’s like Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: real pilots don’t strut around like peacocks when they […]

The Inauguration

At 10:06 MST, Barack Obama became our new president.  I don’t usually check the clock when important things happen, but I did this morning.  My overwhelming impression, watching the crowds in DC?  America’s finally coming to after an eight-year stupor.  Have you ever seen such an outpouring of optimism and goodwill? Now we wait to […]