Archives: February 2007
Tue Feb 27, 2007
German Engineering Meets the Thought Police
I remember sitting placidly in my living room watching the TV when I first saw the Volkswagen commercial; little did I know it would become another victim on the long list of untimely casualties of political correctness. I should have known it was only a matter of time before the Zeitgeist’s sensitivity meters would detect it and target it for extermination.
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Thu Feb 15, 2007
"The Sky is Thawing", and other Global Warming Folktales
There is a bit of irony in the fact that a hearing to debate whether or not Greenhouse Gas Emissions from human activities are contributing to a warming of the planet was postponed by The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality due to inclement weather. I suppose it would be hard to be taken seriously when waxing poetic about the scourge of Global Warming amidst one the harshest cold spells in this country’s history; but if the Global Warming alarmists are entitled to frolic in a parallel reality, what is to stop us skeptics from engaging in similar flights of fancy?
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Sat Feb 10, 2007
The Task of Revisionism
When asked how he thinks history will judge him, President Bush is fond of heckling back his impertinent scoffers by jesting that there are yet many who are still writing about the first president of our country, and he has at least until historians get through covering the many achievements and misadventures of the 42 presidents who preceded him before he has to worry about how he may or may not be judged by those who are entrusted with that honorable task.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007
Bush's Double or Nothing
John McCain, the eternal optimist, must think very highly of his peers in Congress.
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