Author: Don Quixote

Is it my imagination, or is this rabbi (on the bobblehead doll the Giants are giving away on Jewish Heritage Night) secretly a cowboy.  Okay, the link’s working now.

This time they are in San Francisco, and their target is a proposed Starbucks.  Perhaps not surprisingly, they’re led by a local cafe owner who (ya think?) might have just a wee bit of a conflict of interest.   Hey, folks, if you don’t like a Starbucks in your neighborhood, then

Our trade deficit is out of control.  Our national debt is out of control.  The dollar is dropping against most currencies.  Oil is at an all-time high.  The housing market is weak.  The mortgage market is in disarray.  And, until two weeks ago, the stock market was hitting record highs.

While we were having an interesting discussion about Michael Vick and dogfighting a few weeks ago, I was watching the Tour de France.  At the time, everyone in the media, and most of the folks in the discussion here were bemoaning how terrible dogfighting was and couldn’t understand how people could

     DQ here.  I was reading an article on the buy-out of Chrysler the other day when one line caught my eye.  The group taking the company private is paying $1.4 billion and agreeing to invest $6.1 billion in the company.  Sounds like a bargain for a company the size

I’m very glad Bookworm is back and will leave the blogging to her, but I did want to throw out one more topic that came up in a prior comment stream.  The question was what our society can/should do to instill a sense of personal responsibility.  Mike Devx was kind

I have a quick question for the Bookwormroom readers.  Do you believe in the Judeo-Christian God?  If you do, what do you think He thinks about the holy war declared on His people by the Islamist extremists and His people’s reactions to it?  I am not a believer, but I

Assume he’s guilty (as most people do, “innocent until proven guilty” being for the court fo law, not the court of public opinion.  What is all the fuss about?  Granted, he did a terrible thing, as I’m sure anyone who has a dog will tell you.  Dogs are man’s best

     I was wandering around my local Wal-Mart today thinking about how wonderful it is to have a place where people of limited means can buy high quality products (food, clothing, medicine, and just about anyting else you can think of) at very low prices.        So, why do so

     Bookworm is taking the weekend off, so  I’m hoping in with one of my questions.  I’ve been thinking a lot about hate speech and hate crimes since the Imus nonsense and the whole idea puzzles me.       Is hate a crime?  Senators Kennedy and Smith are introducing a new

Except in the rare circumstance when genocide is the goal, war is never an end in itself. It is always a means to the end of a better negotiating position. Someone in one of these threads mentioned the old saying that war is diplomacy by other means. With this in

I was told yesterday that I am a “warmonger.”  I opposed the invasion of Iraq.  But I’m a warmonger.  I believe that war should be used only as a last resort.  But I am a warmonger.  Why?  Well, because I refuse to denounce all war as evil.  Because I believe

Are you proud to be an American (or a German, or a Brazilian, or whatever nationality your are)? Why, or why not? I’ll share my answer with you tomorrow. I look forward to reading yours. My Answer: I am proud to be an American, but sad as well. I’m proud