As I’ve said before several times in this Web log, if the United States does, in fact, sincerely want to solve the illegal alien problem, all that we need to do is treat the Americans who hire them the way we treat drug dealers. Certainly, diddling with tax policies isn’t going to accomplish much, except… Continue reading Snakes on the Ecliptic Plane!
Category: Art and Culture
Tonight’s XO Movie – “Top Gun Misfires”
Military types love to get up early, and so it made sense that Gretchen found a Navy lieutenant waiting for her when she came in at 7:30 to open up this morning. She told me he’d been there waiting since “oh-seven-hundred” as he put it. And he didn’t seem to mind waiting a while longer,… Continue reading Tonight’s XO Movie – “Top Gun Misfires”
The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
My father’s older brother, Edward, never changed his last name back to Martini like my father did. As a matter of fact, when Dad resigned his position as an engineer at General Dynamics and left the Connecticut suburbs for Little Italy in Manhattan and a job tending a bar at the Stuyvesant New Amsterdam Hotel… Continue reading The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be
How Can 500 Million Bozos be Wrong? Right?
It was only a matter of time, really. Congress finally got around to sending a few pointed questions to Facebook. The next step in that time-honored minuet, of course, is a subpoena. Hey, it’s happened to a lot of people considerably more intelligent, more creative, more insightful, more honest and much, much, much more useful… Continue reading How Can 500 Million Bozos be Wrong? Right?
The Palm Beach Hillbilly Runs for Senate
When Gretchen came in to open up this morning, there was McMurray, waiting outside the door for her to open it. He followed her in and immediately asked to see me as soon as possible. Given my schedule today, unfortunately, poor McMurray had to hang out in the reception area with Gretchen until a quarter… Continue reading The Palm Beach Hillbilly Runs for Senate