This will likely be my final day as a Jeep owner–at least for a little while. Frame rot has weakened by 2000 TJ Sport to the point that important parts of the drivetrain are at serious risk of falling off of the undercarriage. Rather than put the driving public at risk, I’ve decided to park…… READ MORE
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Exploit Her While You Can
The ESPYs are tonight. In the realm of made up awards shows ESPN’s effort is especially unnecessary because sports is one of the few areas in life where you actually have scoreboards and standings to determine who is a winner and who is a loser. I tend to doubt that winning “Men’s Basketball Player of…… READ MORE
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Remember when Ron Popeil developed the modern infomercial and “amazed” enthusiastic studio audiences with a food dehydrator or a rotisserie oven? Did you ever wonder what happened to the people in those audiences who were so excited about knife sets that could actually slice tomato skins so thin you could see through them or how…… READ MORE
Consequences
A Facebook friend who is a bit of a hippie re-posted a picture on their wall yesterday: I/m sure that she meant this picture to be about tying yourself down to the “corporate rat race” or missing out on the “little things in life”–but I hope that she also agrees with the idea…… READ MORE
Social Justice In Action
It certainly has not been a good summer for those who espouse more “progressive” forms of law enforcement in America. The idea of neutering police actions and is turning many cities–with overwhelming Democratic leadership–into killing fields–all in the name of “Social Justice”. In San Francisco, an illegal immigrant who had been deported from the US…… READ MORE
Just One Dollar More
Remember back when you were in high school and you had five or six classes a day with five or six different teachers? At the end of each class they would say you just had to read the next chapter, or you just had to complete a couple of pages of questions in your workbooks,…… READ MORE
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Remember when Republicans swept into power in Madison back in 2010 and promised to change the way the Legislature operated? There would be no more budgets developed behind closed doors in caucus. There would be no more midnight votes on the budget and that the general air of transparency would be improved from what Democrats…… READ MORE
Finally Something For Me
After six and a half years in office, President Obama has finally proposed something that could actually benefit me. I mean, I already had health insurance. I’m a legal citizen of the United States. I paid off all of my student loans without government help. I paid off my house without government assistance. I don’t…… READ MORE
This One’s For the Girls
I hope there were a lot of girls in front of the TV yesterday for Team USA’s Women’s World Cup Final victory over Japan. I think it would be good for them to see 22 women celebrated for accomplishing something that did not require them to show off outrageous amounts of cleavage. Or to have…… READ MORE
Under Cover of Darkness
President Ronald Reagan once quipped “The nine scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help’.” With apologies to The Gipper, the six scariest words coming from someone in government is “You don’t need to know that”. Unfortunately, the 12 Republican members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee…… READ MORE
