by WALTER and ROSEMARY BRASCH In January 2009, with a new president about to be inaugurated, we wrote a column about the stories we preferred not having to write, but knew we would. Three years later, we are still writing about those problems; three years from now, we’ll still be writing about them. We had wanted the U.S. Department of the Interior to stop the government-approved slaughter of wild horses and burros in the southwest, but were...
Bigotry
The Personhood of a Mississippi
by WALTER BRASCH “O.K., class, we have a few minutes at the end of today’s lecture about how the godless Communists created evolution to try to destroy the decent loyal patriotic capitalist society of America. Any questions? Yes, Billy Bob.” “Mr. Jim Bob, I heard about this thing called a person. What is that?” “Good question. With all the distortions by the lyin’ liberal left-wing, it can get confusing. But, it’s really simple. A person is an egg...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
With my kids getting a little older and not needing 100% constant supervision (including the fact, as we are doing lessons, they can follow me around the house for instruction when I give them homework) and with the limited time I chat with my husband, online, I am finally getting a groove where I find that I can actually accomplish many things of substance and in a short amount of time. I haven’t had that since before the little...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I know many people who visited my blog on April Fool’s Day, probably thought that I had jumped off the deep end. Rest assured, I am completely sane, at least according to my own biased standards… In the spirit of April Fool’s Day past, I offer this video: Steve Miller Band – The Joker. Some of the posts in today’s Ten Post Round-Up are no joke: 1: Ignored: Voter intimidation of African-Americans in Dallas… The FBI Ignored Threats to...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
No kidding, it’s April Fool’s Day and there are a whole lot of April Fools in the news and, alas, none of them are very funny. Just for fun, I thought you all would get a kick out of the footage of GWB getting booed: Bush booed at 2008 Nationals home opener There will probably be a few boos heard about today’s Ten Post Round-Up: 1: Lack of health care coverage is no joke, but the current initiatives in...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
It’s Monday and it’s April Fool’s Eve. I am currently planning what minor prank I shall play on my children. I’m also steeling myself for whatever pranks might be planned for me… Rest assured, Uncle Jay has a run-down of the political hi-jinx of the past week: Uncle Jay Explains the News – March 31, 2008 Let’s take a gander at the hi-jinx in today’s Ten Post Round-Up: 1: If this is the free-market conservatives preach about, I’d say...
One Jew’s Christmas
by WALTER BRASCH I am a Jew. I don’t mind receiving Christmas cards or being wished a “Merry Christmas” from friends, clerks, or even in junk mail trying to sell me something no sane person should ever buy. My wife and I even send Christmas cards, with messages of peace and joy, to our friends who are Christians or who we don’t know their religion. I like Christmas music and Christmas carolers, even if some have voices that crack now...
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