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...
Records attest that the hottest days occurred before WWII! Perhaps it just seemed that way since the only relief other than fire escapes was in the better movie theaters having air-conditioning? Can you imagine going on a vacation trip w/o air-conditioned cars—oh, well, at least in those days there were rumble seats.
The cure for baseball’s dwindling popularity is for ESPN and sports magazines to take a hiatus and end the alarm: “The NFL and NBA are coming! The NFL and NBA are coming!” throughout the boys of summer season. It might also help golf, especially the LPGA.…Sometimes, I think Newsweek is propagating all faiths with its articles by the volumes on religion—most recently “Islam in America.”… Convicts in NY are dissatisfied with the prison libraries that contain only 150 books each for twenty reli...
Much of my early childhood was engrossed in comic book heroes and I was fascinated by the artists’ talents to the point that I, too, used to sketch a likeness of each of their heroes. I would marvel at their physiques and wished someday that my skin and bones would take on the same. The thought never occurred to me that because they were all in tight fitting garbs that they were homosexual. To my surprise, much later in life I learned that some psychiatrists actually postulated that these ...
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.
Since most tires on our cars are now from China--defective, by the way--it is only fitting that the Good Year blimp fly over the Olympics next year.
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?
Player 1 st yr age Games to age 35 AB HR HRs after 35 DiMaggio 22 1481* 5881 317 44 [age 36-37] Mays 20 2071* 6319 534 126 [age 36-42] Bonds 22 2002 6974 445 311 [age 36-43] Aaron 20 2271 8889 510 245 [age 36-43] Williams 21 1557* 5573 368 153 [age 36-41] Ruth 19 ** 1790 599...
Lacking spirit and loss of reason, tonight’s speech had echoes of Johnson’s announcement that he would not seek reelection. Bush showed no spirit because he has lost his “gotta believe” tact. In postulating an illogical premise that 21,000 troops will squash the resistance, even though he admitted in years to follow it would still be bloody, is simply a cry of desperation. Strategically with so few troops there was no need for a speech or thinking of it as a “new strategy.” Actually it is but...
“Escalate - More boots to the zone - counter insurgency - special force incursion - surge” — are irrelevant terms for the current Iraqi scenario. Rather, the linguistics of reality is “redeploy - troop withdrawal - cut and run - timetable.” A surge not unlike a tsunami overwhelms but then recedes for victims to resurge havoc. Not since the last Great War has there existed the merciless but realistic integrity of military strategy. From Korea onward skirmishes consist of eggs unde...