Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Al Gore, Barack Obama
The award for the best opening in any article (at least for today), has to go to Jonah Goldberg:
Is Barack Obama the Messiah?
Before we answer that question, let me vent for a moment. In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in America to ask the pressing question: Is Al [...]
Bookworm on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Climate change
I’m a scientific ignoramus. Although I’ve been skeptical of global warming from the start, my skepticism hasn’t been rooted in a sound grasp of facts and scientific principles. Instead, it arises because of my source problems: I deeply distrust the people touting climate change.
From the moment Al Gore started mouthing off about it, and triggered [...]
Bookworm on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats, Leftist morality
My father was a very angry man. At whichever job he had, he was pretty darn certain that management was out to get him. At stores, he knew he was being cheated. My mother always attributed this anger, not to the poverty and dislocation of his youth (placed in an orphanage at [...]
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