Author: Don Quixote

Bookworm will be back and blogging tomorrow or Wednesday.  Yea!!!  They didn’t have a judge for me today, but they swear they’ll have one for me tomorrow and so I’ll be in trial.  So, I thought I’d ask for some advice to welcome Bookworm back.  Personally, I think she runs

Trial starts tomorrow so, as you can imagine, I’ve had no time to think about much of anything else this weekend.  Let me quickly throw out a topic I’m interesting in hearing about from you.  Really, two topics, I guess. First, should America use capital punishment?  My own view is

Before I get to today’s topic, thank you all for the thoughtful, insightful comments.  It’s always a pleasure guest hosting Bookworm’s blog because of the intelligence and thoughtfulness of her readers.  Quote of the day has to go to Lissa, “Why should we judge a society by its poorest and

Helen had a lovely quote the other day: “a nation is only as powerful as its weakest citizen, as prosperous as its poorest, and as decent and moral as its empty jails.”  Not surprisingly, I disagree fundamentally with the first two statements, but the third seems worth talking about.  Certainly,

The American Research Group reports that Bush’s approval rating has hit an all time low of 19%, with 77% disapproving.  How can any Republican candidate dig out of such a deep hole? Meanwhile, oil has been flirting with $100 a barrel.  Every time oil prices hit new highs, Bookworm points

It seems certain McCain is going to be the Republican nominee.  Just as Bookworm doesn’t “get” Obama’s charisma, McCain’s is completely lost on me.  As a result, maybe I’m not the best judge of his chances, but it seems to me that he can only hope to win if he gets

I’m up against a deadline and have no time to blog, but I thought you might find this interesting: Friday Mornings at the Pentagon By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY, McClatchy Newspapers   Over the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel have given their lives in the

It is a cliche that conservatives believe in equality of opportunity and liberals believe in equality of results.  But, what this really means is that conservatives work toward a society in which all who work hard, play by the rules, and contribute to society earn the benefit of their labor.  Liberals reject hard

I talked in an earlier post about the right to steal money earned by others to pay for ones own needs.  Outside of the pure immorality of it, this concerns me most because it marks the death of capitalism, which cannot function without the profit motive as a carrot and

I’ve been watching the silliness that is Berkeley and heard one of the Code Pink gals talking about the “right” to housing, the “right” to health care, etc.  I think her point was that we shouldn’t be spending money defending our country when we could be spending it providing services