Before kids, I'd board a plane looking for my seat, beg, beg, begging the airplane god that no kid was near me. Once I had kids, my judgmental superiority came back to me in a rush. Now, people looked at me and my delightful cherubs as devil's spawn and prayed to their gods for mercy. The wheel of life and all that.
Trying the evil Sheikh in New York City under the American legal system is the dumbest idea ever in the history of dumb presidential legal ideas and that's when compared to the biggest poop pile of dumb Obama ideas generally which are the worst in any American presidency ever.*
Morally superior Gen X moms and dads seem entirely reasonable until they see the limits of "limits" like time-outs, banal blabbing and gentle cajoling. Kids regard their parents with utter contempt. Well, some do. Depends on the kid's personality. And parents, once exasperated, go there. No, they might not spank their child. They'll yell. Or arm yank. Or threaten. Or push. Or thump (thwack in the head with fingers). Or pinch. Something, anything, to reorder the disordered relationship--the one w…
Dr. Donald Palmisano, former President of the American Medical Association and Director of The Coalition To Protect Patients Rights joined me and discussed the Health Care legislation, the AMA's support of it and much more. It is a must listen.
This video is so ridiculously funny, it should be a movie. But it's real. Still, life is funny. And I'd be laughing harder if my taxes weren't paying this woman's salary.
A tale of two technologies. I don't care that blood draws by cops help stop drunk driving, I don't want a cop near a needle, period. Too many things can go wrong.
Was the President's address a win? In the short term, just like Bill Clinton, yes. Did Bill Clinton get health care reform passed? Don't think so. The speech, like most Obama soliloquies was rife with Strawmen. Neo Neocon knocks 'em down.
The press alternately calls Sarah Palin stupid or irrelevant. However, both in political instinct and policy substance, it's clear that she is neither.