Since retiring, we’ve done a lot of travelling, and we’ve also adapted our t.v. watching to those discovery channel history channel programs that explore archeology, or some previous society. I remember one about Easter Island. It was focused on the disappearance of the island’s people. As I recall it, they had a fairly solid case […]
A few years back, I was helping do a web site for the rural county where I live. I was making this graph to show how the coming of the railroad in 1896 and the later construction of an interstate had a major effect on the population of the county. I noticed the obvious "dip" […]
Out of Touch By BOB HERBERT May 1, 2009 The incredibly clueless stewards of the incredibly shrinking Republican Party would do well to recall that it was supposedly Abe Lincoln, a Republican, who said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Not only has the G.O.P. spent years trying to fool […]
A Hundred Days Of Bush The Atlantic Apr 30 2009 by Ross Douthat Every President’s early months in office are shaped by circumstances and policies inherited from his predecessor. But few presidencies have enjoyed opening acts in which the previous administration loomed as large as the Bush record has in the first three months of […]
Here, I prove that I can stop talking about torture and about Iraq. You can henceforth refer to me as looking-forward-1boringoldman. I’ve chosen to comment on a Paul Krugman’s op-ed in the New York Times because Krugman had been a broken record too about the Stimulus Package being too small. If Krugman can change topics, […]
I believe this post is near the end of what I think about the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq. One doesn’t have to invoke a quest for oil to explain what they thought. We can just read what they said. By this time, most right-thinking people know that the distorted intelligence and their media campaign […]