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Category Archives: American Life

Republican woman breaks into mostly male winners circle

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A rarity: a woman beats the odds, and appears to qualify for more than honorable mention at the Darwin Awards. Not surprisingly, she's a Republican: A low-level Republican official in Michigan was adjusting a gun in her bra holster last month when she accidentally shot herself to death, local newspapers reported. Christina Bond, 55, shot […]

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One of life’s mysteries

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

For the most part, this story from Talking Points Memo is not surprising: A new Public Policy Polling survey found that 37 percent of Republicans who voted in the Mississippi primary runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) said they would back the Confederate side if there was […]

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Future Darwin Award Winners?

Saturday, July 12, 2014

I've often often written about the fact that our area of the country ranks higher than the others in most measures of intelligent thought and action. But of course, we're talking averages here, and we're also talking about the United States of America, so, all things being relative, our superiority is nothing to get too […]

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Only in America

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Here's a question. Has there ever been a time in our national history when so many people have been so crazy? The immediate impetus for this question? This: Glenn Beck plans to bring soccer balls and hot meals to migrant children this month, his career be damned. “I’ve never taken a position more deadly to […]

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Let’s get it right this time

Friday, July 4, 2014

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been a semi-tongue in cheek advocate of secession by the rational states. It is coincidentally the case that the rational fringe contains all the states (or nearly all, Indiana can be a problem, as can West Virginia) that fought for the North last time the issue […]

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Just another day

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

There was another school shooting yesterday; this time in Oregon. Mass shootings have now become such a regular event that it takes something special to get them on the front page. The Arizona shooters made it, but they had to work on it. Maybe it was draping that “Don't tread on me” flag on their […]

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Soylent? Really?

Thursday, May 29, 2014

I make it a regular point to read the Times Tech Section, which appears every Thursday, the same day Apple posts a new free App on the App Store. Thursday must be a day favored by the tech gods. Anyway, today it took a while for me to decide that today's column by Farhad Manjoo […]

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A typical case of American blind justice

Monday, May 19, 2014

Every once in a while you see a story like this and you wonder. I'd like to think it couldn't happen here, but this took place in Washington State, not Alabama: At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led police on a high […]

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Say it aint so, Stephen

Thursday, April 10, 2014

It is now official. Stephen Colbert will be taking over for David Letterman. I realize this is a promotion of sorts, and that, being one who doesn't own a television, I have no standing to complain, but complain I will anyway, because lack of standing or not, as an American I have a right of […]

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The right finally gets the joke

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Apparently whoever tweets for the Stephen Colbert show screwed up, and sent out a racially offensive tweet, for which act many on the right (e.g., Michelle Malkin) are demanding that his show be cancelled. This can mean only one thing. They must have finally figured out that Stephen is not an actual narrow minded conservative […]

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