The Impossible Takes Longer
Once again RWA1 has come through for me (unintentionally, of course), this time with a link to a Wall Street Journal op-ed on the "GOP's Payroll Tax Fiasco: How did the Republicans manage to lose the tax issue to Obama?"The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy
The Impossible Takes Longer
Once again RWA1 has come through for me (unintentionally, of course), this time with a link to a Wall Street Journal op-ed on the "GOP's Payroll Tax Fiasco: How did the Republicans manage to lose the tax issue to Obama?"The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy
Reagan: The Other Third Rail
Thanks to my Tabloid Friend on Facebook, I know that Ron Paul was foolish enough to criticize Ronald Reagan some years ago. First below is the 1987 quotation from Paul, then Politico writer Ginger Gibson's commentary.“I think we can further thank Ronald Reagan for doing a good job [on furthering the Libertarian Party]. He certainly did a good job in 1980 pointing out the fallacies of the
Reagan: The Other Third Rail
Thanks to my Tabloid Friend on Facebook, I know that Ron Paul was foolish enough to criticize Ronald Reagan some years ago. First below is the 1987 quotation from Paul, then Politico writer Ginger Gibson's commentary.“I think we can further thank Ronald Reagan for doing a good job [on furthering the Libertarian Party]. He certainly did a good job in 1980 pointing out the fallacies of the
Grace in Division
I'm not really a good judge of these matters, but I think the South Korean government handled the question of condolences for the death of Kim Jong-Il rather well, as the Hankyoreh reports it: Regarding the death of North Korean National Defence Committee Chairman Kim Jong-il, the South Korean government stated on Monday, “We offer our consolation to the citizens of North Korea. We hope that
Grace in Division
I'm not really a good judge of these matters, but I think the South Korean government handled the question of condolences for the death of Kim Jong-Il rather well, as the Hankyoreh reports it: Regarding the death of North Korean National Defence Committee Chairman Kim Jong-il, the South Korean government stated on Monday, “We offer our consolation to the citizens of North Korea. We hope that
Wisconsin first grade teacher sets great example for dealing with gender variance among children
Thanks to Shannon Minter for alerting me to this heartwarming account of a Jackson County, Wisconsin teacher's experience with a gender variant first grader. Melissa Bollow Tempel, in "It's Okay to be Neither," sets an amazing example of how to deal with gender issues in the classroom, including a girl, Allie, who was often taken as a boy. Equally heartworming, the girl's parents were accepting
Wake Me When It's Over
After a bit of a lull, RWA1 has been linking again. Much of it of course was about the deaths of Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel (nothing about the death of Kim Jong-Il, though -- yet), but the fun part was this article at The New Republic, "Why Obama's New Populism May Sink His Campaign," by William Galston, a hack from the Brookings Institution. "Vain hope that this will be heeded,"
Wake Me When It's Over
After a bit of a lull, RWA1 has been linking again. Much of it of course was about the deaths of Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel (nothing about the death of Kim Jong-Il, though -- yet), but the fun part was this article at The New Republic, "Why Obama's New Populism May Sink His Campaign," by William Galston, a hack from the Brookings Institution. "Vain hope that this will be heeded,"
Boy Culture in the Nineteenth and a Half Century!
I've been reading H. Bruce Franklin's Future Perfect: American Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (revised edition, Oxford University Press, 1978), which turns out to be more of an anthology than a critical study. It's worth reading because of the commentary he supplies; he's written a good many books on various subjects, including Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (Oxford,
Boy Culture in the Nineteenth and a Half Century!
I've been reading H. Bruce Franklin's Future Perfect: American Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (revised edition, Oxford University Press, 1978), which turns out to be more of an anthology than a critical study. It's worth reading because of the commentary he supplies; he's written a good many books on various subjects, including Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (Oxford,
There Goes the Sun King
Kim Jong Il is dead, as I'm sure everybody in a position to read this blog knows by now. (Judging from what I've been reading online all day, it might be helpful to some readers if I explain that East Asian names usually put the surname first. So Kim was the dictator's surname or family name, Jong Il his given name; Jong Il Kim in Western order.) I certainly don't mourn him, but it's hard to
There Goes the Sun King
Kim Jong Il is dead, as I'm sure everybody in a position to read this blog knows by now. (Judging from what I've been reading online all day, it might be helpful to some readers if I explain that East Asian names usually put the surname first. So Kim was the dictator's surname or family name, Jong Il his given name; Jong Il Kim in Western order.) I certainly don't mourn him, but it's hard to
What If Bach Was One of Us, Just a Slob Like One of Us
An old friend of mine posted a link on Facebook today to an article on the worst pop song lyrics of all time. The article attempted to provide the top (or bottom) ten, but many deserving examples didn't make the cut. No Stevie Wonder? No Prince? No Neil Young? No Paul McCartney? No Ira Gershwin? All the examples were relatively recent, and thanks to the "Golden Age" program on our local
What If Bach Was One of Us, Just a Slob Like One of Us
An old friend of mine posted a link on Facebook today to an article on the worst pop song lyrics of all time. The article attempted to provide the top (or bottom) ten, but many deserving examples didn't make the cut. No Stevie Wonder? No Prince? No Neil Young? No Paul McCartney? No Ira Gershwin? All the examples were relatively recent, and thanks to the "Golden Age" program on our local
My Evening Constitutional
One of my readers wrote to suggest that I was "slightly wrong" when I wrote about Bob Garon, the sixty-something gay Vietnam veteran who got all up in Mitt Romney's face a couple of weeks ago:The U.S. Constitution doesn't say anything about marriage, so it's not correct to say that denying him marriage denies him his Constitutional rights.My correspondent pointed out that while the Constitution
My Evening Constitutional
One of my readers wrote to suggest that I was "slightly wrong" when I wrote about Bob Garon, the sixty-something gay Vietnam veteran who got all up in Mitt Romney's face a couple of weeks ago:The U.S. Constitution doesn't say anything about marriage, so it's not correct to say that denying him marriage denies him his Constitutional rights.My correspondent pointed out that while the Constitution
The Grinches of the Far East
Those wicked Chinese! According to this vigilant piece at The Week, if you can't afford as many Christmas gifts as you'd like this year, it's all their fault. And why? Because greedy Chinese workers are getting paid more than they used to.Economists note that labor costs in China have been on the rise for years, but they are now reaching a point where exporters can't simply absorb them and
The Grinches of the Far East
Those wicked Chinese! According to this vigilant piece at The Week, if you can't afford as many Christmas gifts as you'd like this year, it's all their fault. And why? Because greedy Chinese workers are getting paid more than they used to.Economists note that labor costs in China have been on the rise for years, but they are now reaching a point where exporters can't simply absorb them and
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