| Sep 6, 2010 | Peace / SecurityWhen running from the law, one common maneuver that criminals make is to change their names. Adopting an alias has also been tried as a public relations strategy by corporations that find themselves struck with an image problem. Most recently, this deception has been...
| | Environment / HealthSeeing life,As West we roam;Sometimes best,To stay at home. For a Yankee, driving to the West can painfully confirm many previously unverified suspicions. First, of course, one must stifle guilt for driving at all. This burden is fortuitously lightened by discovering...
| Aug 30, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyDid you see those pictures of Michelle Obama sashaying around Europe–Spain I think it was–and staying at that fancy hotel? I mean, who does she think she is, Nancy Reagan? Isn’t she kind of getting ahead of herself, putting on airs? Whoa! Wait a...
| | Rights / DemocracyOh, please, Santa Claus, please! Please give us the political gift that keeps giving: Newt Gingrich. The Newt says he is planning to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012, and all I can say is: “Yes!” The corrupt former House speaker was forced...
| | Rights / DemocracyMade top sergeant,Earned my way;Till they found outI was gay. The glacial progress toward equality for gay Americans offers some revealing looks at our society. One is the weakening hold of religion, Roman Catholicism in particular. Until recently, church bias against...
