Will We Gain Health Care but Lose Abortion?

Grrrr! My blood pressure is going sky high. To read the whole story, click on the first phrase below.
WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops have emerged as a formidable force in the health care overhaul fight, using their clout with millions of Catholics and working behind the scenes in Congress to get strong abortion restrictions into the [...]

Joe Schmo Lieberman

How irresponsible is it for an American Senator to pronounce the attacks at Fort Hood an act of terrorism before anyone’s even spoken to the attacker? Lieberman seems to want to whip everyone into a post 9-11 frenzy over this unfortunate, and probably much more complex, incident. This is not to defend the shooter, or [...]

Letterman Does Yankees

A few Dave Letterman jokes about you-know-who, taken from the MLB site:
“Long season, brutal season, 162 games, 40 or 50 playoff games, and then the best of 30 in the World Series. Finally, now, they get a well-deserved rest, and then on Monday they report to Spring Training.“
“The Yankees, your world champion Yankees, they have [...]

Game Four

Dirty Play
Three nights, three games, three pitchers: it was all the same story. Philadelphia pitchers pummeled A-Rod on every one of his first at-bats. The first time, you figure,  maybe it was intentional, maybe not. Second time, you strongly suspect something’s going on. Third time, it’s obvious their pitchers agreed beforehand to hit A-Rod at [...]

Outrageous Shoes

I do mean outrageous, not as in, WOW! but as in, What an Outrage! The designer–Alexander McQueen–obviously hates women.

Universal Insurance

So it looks as if, instead of universal health care, what we’re going to get is mandatory universal health insurance, with employers and individuals responsible for themselves, and a punishing fine if you don’t buy it. WTF?!
I should’ve been out there screaming and hollering with the crazies. Turns out they’re not so crazy after all.
The [...]

Not My Kinda Town

I’m having one of those days when I’m convinced I was dropped off here from some other planet. Call me an alien (as in alienated), but I just cannot relate to the crying people of Chicago. Rejected! It’s shocking! Absolutely unbelievable!
There could be, and probably are, about a million reasons the IOC chose Rio de [...]

Dept. of Parenting Inc.

A Daddy on the Ball
Steve Monforto, a Phillies fan who’d been trying his entire life to catch a baseball in the stands, finally managed to snag one during Tuesday night’s game against the Washington Nationals. Delirious with joy, he handed the treasure to his 3-year-old daughter Cecilia, who promptly threw it towards the field. Did [...]

Amerika’s True Colors?

Well, well, well. So, here we are at last. All these years of politeness towards people with disabilities were, apparently, just PCBS*.
I refer, of course, to yesterday’s town hall meeting on health care reform in New Jersey, where a woman in a wheelchair was heckled while trying to tell her story and how reforming the [...]

Justice For All?

As some readers may recall, I was recently, through no fault of my own, bitten by a dog. I reported it to the police, and was summoned to come testify about the incident. Today was to be My Day in Court.

Fantasy Scenario: I walk to the witness chair where I’m sworn in (having earlier decided [...]