Slowly, painfully, self-awareness has come to George W. Bush. "Turns out this isn't one of these presidencies where you ride off into the sunset, you know, waving goodbye," the president told the conservative American Enterprise Institute in December. ...more

January 11, 2009

Steve Chapman (Obama's 'My Pet Goat' Moment), so you are "appalled and disappointed" by what Barack Obama said? I, and I am sure many others, are appalled and disappointed by you and other bloviators such as Cal Thomas and Rush Limbaugh are doing your best to put a negative spin on anything the President-Elect says in a ridiculous attempt to somehow discredit him. The fact that he is a cautious and non-vindictive man, unlike the likes of you, does nothing to lend credence to your little temper tantrums over the right wing extremists being soundly defeated in recent elections. Had Mr. Obama immediately jumped in without doing a proper investigation into the matter, you would then be calling him a knee jerk. You are entitled to your opinion by those of us who believe in the Constitution (1st Amendment in this case) as does Mr. Obama. Not due to the actions of those who go out of their way to tear down everything done by good people who won't kowtow to them and their cronies. It would be absolutely absurd to expect that the Obama camp had not had contact with the Illinois governor. The question is whether there was any attempt to make an illicit deal concerning Sen. Obama's vacated Senate seat. ...more

December 19, 2008

NOT-SO-GREAT MOMENTS IN CUBS HISTORY THE CURSE OF THE BILLY GOAT (1945): In 1945, tavern owner Billy Sianis bought box seat tickets for Game 4 of the World Series and brought his pet goat to Wrigley Field. When it began to rain, the odor of wet goat prompted Cubs officials to eject Sianis and his pet. Enraged, Sianis purportedly placed a curse upon the franchise; no Cubs team would appear in the World Series until the franchise demonstrated the proper respect to all goat-kind. The Cubs haven't been to the World Series since, despite many attempts by fans and even Sianis' descendents to break the curse. ...more

June 17, 2008

You can be reasonably assured this is one new law that will not have an elaborate signing ceremony by Charlie Crist surrounded by Cheshire cat-grinning glad-handers standing proudly behind the governor as he proclaims what a great day this is for Florida's goats. ...more

January 5, 2008