Sorry, can’t write about this today. Must file incorporation documents so I can get out of paying for my staff’s doughnuts. I have a religious objection to sugar, you see, and now the Supreme Court has said that’s good enough for them. I’ll save billions! Hey, government! Where do I send the bill for my …
On Thursday the Supreme Court told Massachusetts that its 35-foot buffer zone around clinics which provide abortions was too big. On Saturday the protesters who used to have to remain behind that line moved closer. Activists chanted, prayed, and sang during a nonviolent six-hour protest that occasionally erupted into vitriol and shouting. “Please don’t kill …
I’m currently using a Netgear WNR2000 wireless router. It’s several years old and runs the 802.11n standard. I’m discovering that its signal is fading when I get to the kitchen to try to use the tablet, and using Mom’s Mac out in the family room is becoming hopeless. Has anyone bought an 802.11ac wireless router …
In April, the Southern Poverty Law Center designated ALIPAC as a hate group. I can see why. “Instead of using our tax money to buy illegals 42,000 pairs of new underwear, we would like to send the illegals and DC politicians a message by mailing them our used underwear, and some of our pairs are …
Three-term Republican Senator from Tennessee Howard Baker died Thursday in his home state. He was 88. “What did the president know and when did he know it?” That phrase, uttered by Republican Senator Howard Baker during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings on June 29, 1973, will forever be associated with Baker, who died Thursday at …
Those kids may be yours biologically, gentlemen, but who cares? You’re gay, and Texas doesn’t approve of gay marriages, so you can’t adopt them. Charming. More than that, unnerving. At the moment the only name on the twins’ birth certificates is the surrogate mother’s. “Without [co-adoption], if something happened to either me or Joe we …
Out in Colorado along the Continental Divide rises an obelisk surrounded by a low wall of flat stones. The obelisk consists of seven carved marble blocks engraved with the names of the countries from which soldiers fought and died in Vietnam, from the French, the Gurkhas and the Indians in World War Two through Dien …
I have a new hero. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen somehow maintained his equanimity in the face of screeching banshees masquerading as Republican United States Congressmen in an investigative hearing about missing emails. I know damned well I’d have lost my temper multiple times while having my sentences cut off, my honesty impugned and my work …
Hard as it may be to believe, the biggest sports news of the day here in Hawai’i was unquestionably Michelle Wie and her first LPGA major tournament win. She’s won several other tournaments, but the US Ladies Open is one of the five majors on the ladies’ tour, and it’s a huge win for her. …
No, that’s not my word. That’s the word Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards use to title the lead article in the summer issue of Washington Monthly. What they mean is that the moment the Republicans took over the House in 1994 (Gingrich and his crowd), they took a meat ax to Congress’s permanent workforce. …