Happy New Year!
Now that this minor detail is out of the way, I need to tell you about something that I feel rather strongly about. The new year is 2010. That is pronounced TWENTY-TEN. I know that most of us have not been calling the last few years twenty-oh-nine and so forth. We have used [...]
We are still wondering about the motivation of how an army Major, a physician no less, could open fire and kill or injure 43 people at the US Army base where he worked in Texas. This was the largest peacetime crime ever on a domestic military base, and by any measure, a truly great tragedy [...]
Sometimes you read a story and you just have to wonder how things got this far.
An article in today’s Oregonian tells us the story of a 19-year-old Vancouver WA girl named Blanca Catt. Despite having a hard start in life, she had become a success story of a bad situation turning out well. But a [...]
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is very protective of the “Olympics” brand in this country. Of course they are, as they spend a lot of money on marketing themselves and the international sports festival that they participate in. I have no issue with the organization protecting themselves from businesses who want to get a [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the health care “debate” that has been going on in this country lately. The most significant part of the debate is not IF we need health care reform, but how to do it, and just how soon it can happen.
In my opinion, this is one of the most [...]
We have seen a number of public figures pass away lately. Some hold a higher stature and get more news coverage than others. Walter Cronkite, though he was ling retired, is one of those people deserving of a note in passing.
The television was not a central focus at our house growing up, but I do [...]
One function of a newspaper used to be to edit copy. The newspaper never tried to print every single letter to the editor. Nor should they try to publish every comment made online. If the editors wold actually “edit” then the online publication would be much better for it.
According to a recent news story in the Oregonian, a 36-year-old PCC writing instructor, Ann Marie Selby, was detained by police for suspicion of prostitution. She has claimed that she was on the street, well known as a place to pick up a street walker, because she was catching a bus. She was booked by [...]
This past Sunday, US Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) suggested that the executives fron AIG, the insurance company that has received $160 billion in bailout funds from the US Government, either resign or commit suicide. In his comments to WMT radio in Iowa, “The first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards [...]
In the US, we are fascinated with the private lives of our elected officials. It is probably healthy that we have a curiosity in such matters. When this curiosity becomes the means with which we try to drive those officials out of office, it becomes a serious problem. This problem has come up again, this [...]
