What We Have Here Is A Failure To Educate

Delaware's public education system could possibly be considered a failure. No new magic bullet is going to fix the problem. It's time for parents, teachers the legislature and the Governor to get the job done.

Can The Palestinians Get Their Shit Together?

Nicholas Kristof has an interesting column questioning whether the Palestinians can organize a non-violent protest against Israel. Turns out from the Palestinian perspective, youths throwing rocks is a non-violent protest.…

Austerity is a Bitch

What president believed in his heart and soul that austerity was the answer to pull America out of its economic mess? Herbert Hoover. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying…

Getting Better with Age

Sometimes people do get better with age while others getting older ain't much fun. Look at Melville whose Moby Dick was published when he was 32 and that was about…

A Blog Post About Nothing

Remember a few days ago when the FBI caught a ring of Russian spies. I'm sure Fox News was all a twitter over it. [youtube wuNh-4JhUj0] Actually, according to espionage…

The Oprah Presidency?

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker must hate that she doesn't have a penis. What else could I infer from her vapid column in today's Washington Post, "Obama: Our first female president".…

Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool

The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama's team will look to international cooperation instead of the "Go it alone" attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.

The Politics of Science

Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in…

Death by iPhone?

Admittedly, I find Maureen Dowd as useless as Christine O'Donnell. Her column today, "Are Cells the New Cigarettes", begs the question, Is Dowd the new David Broder? I'll skip all…