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Stick Close to Your Desks
Monday, March 1st, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham
Stick Close to Your Desks and never go to sea and you all may become rulers of the Queen’s Naaavvvvvy.” Gilbert and Sullivan are timeless.
Consider Admiral Mike Mullen, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a prime example of G&S, although it is improbable that he is surrounded by his [...]
State of Disunion Address 2010 Part 2
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Publisher Mike Rough
O: Our most urgent — our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis. It was not easy to do. And if there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans — and everybody in between — it’s that we all hated the [...]
To Tell The Truth
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Author Tony DeMaio
TO TELL THE TRUTH
(It depends upon what you mean by “is”.)
LBT: In considerable frustration recently your Editor howled, “Don’t they teach logic anywhere in the United States any more?! Do we have to write a basic handout on syllogisms and modus ponens?!” The answer, fortunately, is “No.” Tony De [...]
The Entitled’s New Clothes
Monday, October 19th, 2009By Author Mike Rough
Thought the entitled, though it seemed not to matter, the economy in tatters,
with aliens that it had to feed, its muscled might atrophied,
choking on federal excess, foreign wars, and IMF largess,
barbarians at the border it seemed “A new set of clothes are in order.”
Enter the tailor and his entourage, dashing, smooth, the [...]
Clean Water for Bitter Pills
Friday, October 9th, 2009By Author Tony Demaio
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, a man rose up among the people and was elected president. He had no real political persuasion, but had a great desire to “do the right thing” for “his” people.
One Good Fee Deserves Another!
Friday, October 9th, 2009By Author Richard Marmo
Otherwise known as another tax. Take my phone bill, for example…and I wish someone would. Just figuring out exactly what you’re paying for can leave you with a hernia of the mind! And don’t bother trying to get one of their agents to explain it. They’ll make everything perfectly [...]
City Slickers on the Farm
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Farm and ranch work does not appear to be obvious to the meanest intelligence. I’m going to regale you with some tales of our experiences based upon hiring men with military backgrounds in need of stable, happy, long-term employment who try very hard. They’re darlings, but some of the mistakes they make would never be duplicated by a six-year-old reared in a bucolic environment.