Vidi, vici, veni — I saw, I conquered, I came
Posted in Culture, Life, News, Rants, history, opinion on Dec 17th, 2009
In recent news reports I read about a four year old pre-kindergarten Texas boy who has been suspended from school for having long hair. Say what? Is this 1959 or 2009? I thought that the right of male students to wear long hair had been settled years ago. Indeed, when I was in high school [...]
Posted in Culture, Life, News, People, Social Issues, opinion on Dec 14th, 2009
I’ve not so far written about the Tiger Woods story because I viewed it as yet another story about a straying celebrity and that it would quickly become yesterday’s news. Reports such as these are now rather commonplace and are hardly worth reporting on, let alone commenting on.
But this story outlived its fifteen minutes a [...]
Posted in Life, News, Politics, Rants, opinion on Nov 17th, 2009
The other day while out driving, I was monitoring the Neal Boortz show, looking for ranty blogging fodder. And, as is almost always the case, I found what I was looking for.
Because it was Veteran’s Day, he was relating anecdotes with that theme in mind. He told a story about a man attacked by four [...]
The ship pictured above is the Oasis of the Seas, which is currently the largest cruise ship in the world.
Ship statistics:
Length: 1,191 feet (compared to 8821/s feet for the Titanic)
Tonnage: 225, 282 GT (compared to 46, 329 for the Titanic)
Beam: 154 feet
Height: 236 feet above waterline
Draft: 31 feet
Depth: 74 feet
Decks: 16 passenger decks
Speed: 22.6 knots [...]
I was very much impressed with Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger when I first heard of the tragedy he and the rest of his crew averted back in January.
After reading this book, I’m even more impressed with him. Not just a recounting of the Flight 1549 incident, this book is a biography that highlights the many experiences [...]
Most people by now have heard of the justice of the peace in Louisiana who recently refused to marry an interracial couple. When I first heard the news, it boggled my mind, as I could not imagine such a thing happening anywhere in the United States in 2009. I’m not at all surprised that such [...]
I woke up this morning to find that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Prize, which left me scratching my head.
Don’t get me wrong, I voted for the guy and think he shows a lot of promise. But I think it’s premature, to say the least, to award him such a prize so early [...]
Posted in Entertainment, News, People, Social Issues, opinion, sex on Oct 3rd, 2009
This morning while idly surfing the net, I read one woman’s rant about the latest sexual brouhaha du jour; that of David Letterman being blackmailed over the many sexual dalliances he’s had over the years with women he’d worked with. In complete indignation, she ripped Letterman up one side and down the other.
She reviled [...]
Posted in Life, News, Politics, Social Issues, history, opinion on Sep 28th, 2009
While talking with a coworker recently, he stated that he was against health care reform because Nazi Germany had a nationalized, or “socialized”, health care system.
Oh, where to begin with this blockheaded black and white thinking?
First of all, Hitler made the trains run on time in Nazi Germany and it was his idea to invent [...]
Recently, I read about a pre-op transsexual prisoner in the UK, convicted of murder and attempted rape, who has won the right to be transferred from a male prison to a female one. The prisoner, who still has a penis, scrotum, and testicles, had not yet, at the time of incarceration, had surgery to remove [...]
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