A while back, I wrote about Reggie the Alligator, an abandoned pet who had made a small lake in Harbor City his home and grown to a length of over six feet and recently re-appeared after apparently disappearing for eighteen… Continue Reading
The President has found his war czar. Should When things don’t go very well as Iraq’s parliament retires for a two-month recess and eventually reconvenes for its rigorous schedule of meeting for two hours a day three days a week,… Continue Reading
At Oval Office 2008, I offer an objective assessment of the candidate forum last night at the Ronald Reagan Library. As you might expect, I was rooting for my candidate, but even so I have to assess that there was… Continue Reading
Two fools tried to raise an alligator in their back yard in San Pedro. When the gator grew too large to keep in their pool, they dumped him in a lake down in Harbor City. After scaring the piss out… Continue Reading
Here’s an article in the Spectator (the British version) suggesting that we’ve had credible information about Saddam’s WMD bunkers since 2003, and haven’t exploited that rather splashy information because we moved too slowly to prevent the Saddam-era Iraqis from selling… Continue Reading
I’d been doing a good job of keeping my thoughts brief, until I perused the Fish Wrapper site today looking for news of something other than the massacre at Virginia Tech. Not that those terrible events weren’t worthy of considerable… Continue Reading
Further to my thoughts below about the Virginia Tech killings, there is a sad but heroic story from within the massacre to tell. Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Israel from Communist Romania, and a world-acclaimed aeronautical… Continue Reading
It seems that earlier Internet rumors about the Virginia Tech shooter were about half right. The guy who killed 32 other people and then himself had a history of stalking women, according to CNN. Also, he had a recent traffic… Continue Reading
At least 22 people shot and killed in a rampage at Virginia Tech. The shooter, apparently despondent over a romantic issue, checked himself out after doing all this damage. Worse yet, it is initiating a debate about gun control,… Continue Reading
After being confused yesterday about why it should be such a big political deal about the U.S. Attorneys being fired, I found as good a write-up about the U.S. Attorney flap as I could have asked for can be found… Continue Reading