Monthly Archives: August 2012

Red Hate Blue

August 15, 2012 – 11:59 am

After two months away in Thailand I’m rapidly re-introducing the chasm between Americans. The rift has many origins, however it’s an election year and the opposing camps are staking claims on the high and low grounds. The complete lack of humor is frightening. None of them can take a joke as witnessed in the following […]

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Waverider On The Loose

August 15, 2012 – 10:02 am

Until the advent of the steam engine the speed of man relied on our own muscles or those of a saddled horse. That barrier has been successively broken by trains, cars, planes, and rockets with the aim of getting someone somewhere somehow faster than before and yesterday the Pentagon launched the X-51 Waverider from a […]

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No Catholics Need Apply

August 13, 2012 – 8:30 pm

When my parents moved to Maine in 1954, my sainted mother asked the realtor if there was a Church close by. “You mean Catholic?” The woman regarded my family of six with anti-Papist disdain. “Yes.” My mother wasn’t one to back away from martyrdom for her faith, however the realtor said, “That’s no problem. We […]

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Goodbye London

August 13, 2012 – 8:02 pm

Nearly 10,500 athletes from 204 countries participated in the London Olympics including women athletes from Saudi Arabia. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney exited from a meeting with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street and openly questioned whether the British were ready for The Games. London Mayor Boris Johnson proudly defended the preparations and eighteen […]

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Rejoice Ryan Cometh

August 13, 2012 – 2:09 pm

GOP candidate Mitt Romney announced his running mate this weekend and arch-conservatives hailed the Massachusetts ex-governor’s choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan. The media touted the decision as bold gambit in the bid for the White House, while pundits cautioned that the Vice-Presidential candidate’s unyielding commitment to fiscal austerity, privatization of Medicare, revisionist views on […]

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