http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755649066303381.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone Because– I can imagine the scene in the Bentonville boardroom– God forbid we at Walmart actually have to respect the little people. Hell, they’re not there to be respected, they’re there to be used and discarded at the first sign of dissent or lack of team playership. Bad enough …
The pronouncement of a man who can use his connections in order to duck having to serve in the Texas National Guard calling any war “romantic” is (to borrow yet again from Spider Robinson) as fucking stupid as a basketball bat. The immediate response is to wonder what kind of …
One month after my last post, and with the holiday season finally behind us all, here’s a little something for the Ides of January. See how the various presidential candidates match up with you. As if they’d listen to you to begin with.
When I was a kid, we only had four or maybe five sources for news of any variety– the Big Three television networks, maybe PBS too (don’t recall whether they were doing news then), and the local paper (morning and afternoon edition). Now, we have the internet, and a dizzying …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/bs_nm/halliburton_mideast_listing_dc Say, you don’t suppose Halliburton has anything to hide, do you? Anything they would really like to keep the U S Government from examining? Anything that might land them in a whole mess of hot water once The Bush and Cheney Show leave office and Congress finds it a …
I figured it was a good time to start having opinions, after actively avoiding having them for 45 years, and at the same time figuring that my life could be anywhere from 50 to 99% over by now. The main thrust of this blog will be my music, the various …