Aug
29
Perfect!
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Throughout the years phrases, affectations, fads come and go, but the strangest ones are, oh what would you call them, key words, that pop up as common affectations. I’ve noticed a new one that’s been around for, I’d say, the past year anyway. It’s the word: Perfect.
I started noticing it, oddly enough, when I [...]
Aug
19
We often talk about the differences between the political right and left in America, and those differences are often glaring. One of those differences is an interest in American history—good and bad. Once one reads history, one realizes why the left is so resistant to it, or we find how often they’ve changed [...]
Jun
16
Don’t forget about the microbrew fest the Washington Beer Commission hosts every Father’s Day weekend, which will be held this weekend beginning this Friday evening. The event is held at St. Edward’s State Park in Kenmore.
I’ve been attending this event for years and find it extremely enjoyable rain or shine–however, shine is preferred, but [...]
Jun
15
Bizzaro Seattle
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I’ve been joking with friends lately that we’re now living in Bizzaro World. You know that world from the Superman comics where everything is the opposite of what it’s supposed to be like in our “real” world. The evidence for my observation is everywhere. Consider the following:
Yesterday on John Carlson’s show on KVI 570 [...]
May
30
There’s one aspect of the Gulf oil spill not getting as much attention as it deserves. Now, I know there’s too much finger pointing at a time when we should be focusing all of our efforts on plugging the leak and cleaning up the damage to our coast.
However, when the time does come to [...]
May
11
Just got back from South Padre Island, Texas where my wife and I attended a great event for my police/firefighter motorcycle club. We’d never been to Texas, and you’d think we might have since the darned place is so big you could easily wind up there at some point—even by accident.
We found it similar [...]
Mar
8
This past Saturday was one of those special days, a brilliant sun hanging in a blue, cloudless sky, warming a greening landscape; it was that rarest of things: a Pacific Northwest spring afternoon—without the wet stuff. And my wife and I promised ourselves we’d wring every last bit of the day out before we [...]
Feb
23
Robin Hood: Wealth Redistribution, or Tax Revolt?
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The current previews for Ridley Scott’s new upcoming movie: Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe (which look excellent by the way), has me thinking about the venerable medieval legend and his lingering influence in our modern society. Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor at first glance seems to many to be a [...]
Feb
18
How to Stop Spending–Stop Spending!
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Excuse me? Did I really hear President Obama give a speech yesterday actually lamenting the national debt and admonishing that we can’t pass this kind of debt on to our children? Is he kidding us?
Isn’t that kind of like one guy beating another guy with a shovel and lamenting the beating has to [...]
Feb
9
Polls Show Fickle Americans
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So, the President gives a State of the Union speech that by many accounts was mediocre at best and rambling, whiny, and bordering on nasty at worst. Regardless of this flat performance, opinion polls following the speech showed up to a four-point “up tick” in the President’s approval numbers. Excuse me?
What exactly changed after [...]