The argument human activity is causing global warming is rather difficult to deny or accept in a whimsical planet driven by geological time. What is certain is the population and industrial explosion worldwide taxing the natural balancing act of the globe because humans—and there are more of them coming—make greater demands on the planet’s resources and stripping it of sensible and necessary conservation.Back in the ’50s and ’60s California, in particular the major cities, it was blanketed in sm...

It used to be that an Our Father and a Hail Mary would go along way in soothing the conscience by overriding the sin of gluttony. In the early ’60s to rebel against conspicuous consumption one bought a Beetle to flaunt and prick the conscience of the Cadillac driver. But the current lunacy rivals even the Vatican’s dishonor in commercially offering indulgences in the middle ages.This lunacy is in voluntary carbon offsets to counter the gluttonous energy user who guzzles down the planet’s resourc...

A recent Washington Post editorial points out that the 150 th anniversary of Dred Scott decision spurred in Maryland new protests that the chief justice [Taney] who wrote the decision: “… beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations.” Yet Maryland on public grounds has three statues of Taney causing activists to demand removal of these statues at the State House and City Hall. The Post’s view that in spite of this...

You really have to hand it to Hillary’s acumen to be so into the gay thing and still remain straight. Or is it simply Hillary being Hillary, like I’m for the war but against it?

It breaks my heart to see on TV so many beautiful women—Kellyanne Conway and ilk—boasting their Republican positions. ’Tain’t fair! I’m bad on names who are some others?

 Fred Thompson should get off his fat rump and declare his manhood or dropout and let his young wife run.

Should the rest of the nation follow these states by proportionately—based on statewide voting—by dividing up its electoral vote? What’s your take on it? And is it any different from a general popular vote?

The best thing for curbing global warming in lieu of countless esoteric alternatives would be nationwide commitment to drive less, slow down, attend to air tire maintenance, keep distance and brake less. At home light switch works both ways, buy fluorescent bulbs, adjust thermostat to stoic level, minimize opening refrigerator-freezer, shutdown computer and TV when not in use. Moreover does stores have to be 24/7, close them down at dusk and Sundays, shut down the damn Internet one day a we...

 Obama’s untiring reminder that he did not vote for the war as though a state senate vote was equivalent to one in Washington, I find glaringly ironic that he would be in favor of his own brand of unilateral action on the border of Pakistan.

 Congress—more accurately the dems—should end its fetish over Gonzales and simply let him fade away, along with his president, into irrelevance. With the administration on its last legs it’s pointless to harp on its obvious incompetence. What’s done is done; instead legislators should focus on how to make the Justice Department whole again for ensuing administrations.

 There’s a curious perception that by raising the minimum wage unskilled workers will not be hired and small proprietors will go out of business, lest they are forced to clean their own toilets and deep fry fish and chips themselves. ’Tis curious because it’s never happened in the history of advanced countries once the world’s slavery was frowned upon, and the Haves were not willing to forgo services.

How about a tentative dictum that all CEOs work for a dollar a year? And wouldn’t it be nice for a Lohann and A-Rod-ilk be required to learn some humility with a hundred thousand a year salary? And who wouldn’t want Paris to visit Paris with just a c-note in her handbag?

With China taking over America shouldn’t it be fitting for the first presidential primary be held on Labor Day in Beijing? It would seem only fair to have the most influential even before California dictate our choices.

 The hype over Obama and Clinton is almost as deadening as that of Bonds and Aaron. Clinton and Aaron have much in common: Hillary is smugly tolerant in allowing Barack’s fleeting moments of fame just as Hank is sure the surrealism surrounding Barry will in the end evaporate and whose stats will terminate at 1998.

If Bush doesn’t want a gasoline tax to underpin our nation’s bridges, why not a corporate tax on auto manufacturers? After all, did the old railway magnates ask for a handout to lay tracks?