Tiger Putts
When I’m 66 feet away from the pin with three strokes to par, I’m generally daydreaming. In those rare instances when I’m 66 feet away from the pin with three strokes to par in real life, I’m weighing the difference… Continue Reading
Month: June 2008
Kern County Non-Discriminates For A Discriminatory Reason
Tonight, at 5:01 p.m., county clerks throughout California will be under orders of the Supreme Court to issue marriage licenses to same-sex applicants and opposite-sex applicants alike. The clerks have no discretion but to obey the Court’s order, in light… Continue Reading
Is George Bush Going To Convert To Roman Catholicism?
For those who follow stories about religion, this could be quite interesting. President Bush, on his European “farewell tour,” met with Pope Benedict XVI and their meeting included a half hour meeting in the Tower of St. John, whose gardens… Continue Reading
Enemies In The Mirror
Today’s big intellectual stimulation was a thorough dissection of Taxi Driver, the 1973 Robert De Niro – Martin Scorcese movie. De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, is a mass of irreconcilable contradictions, driven past the edge of psychosis by the demons… Continue Reading
Mileposts
More than three years. More than 2,000 posts. More than 40,000 page hits. Not bad for a rank amateur blogger with no commercial support.
On The Difficulties Of Adopting A European Constitution
Ireland voted against the Lisbon Treaty a couple days ago, scotching efforts to knit the European Union ever closer to a single political entity, a United States of Europe. Irish voters saw too many downsides to Lisbon, too many infringements… Continue Reading
From The Sports Page
Fantasy baseball players who thought they had it made with the Cardinals’ best pitcher, Todd Wellmeyer, should nevertheless have been apprehensive going into yesterday’s game against the Phillies despite Wellmeyer’s 7-2 record. You expect good pitchers on good teams to… Continue Reading
A Naked Appeal To Your Prurient Interest
This just in — hot young princess caught frolicking naked with other young college girls. The young lady in question, whose antics are described as nothing more than end-of-the-semester hijinks, is Princess Eugenie Windsor, who is sixth in line for… Continue Reading
What Matters In The Voting Booth?
NAPP voters were given an impressive array of choices about what would matter most to them in choosing between Obama and McCain come November. The result: A three-way tie between three subjects — “Change,” “Economic Recession,” and “War in Iraq… Continue Reading
Superstition Kills
Many have made this point before me. But adherence to irrational supernatural beliefs can be deadly. Like when mobs go after “witches.” Not black-hat-and-broomstick witches like you’d see at Halloween or in a Harry Potter movie, but animistic witches, practicing… Continue Reading