It is with the most profound regret that I am comp…

It is with the most profound regret that I am compelled to announce that the editor of The Hartford Courant, a proud and wonderful newspaper of which I am honored to count myself a staff member, has ruled that I am no longer allowed to operate a column on this web page. Despite the fact [...]

War without end, amen So, when we get through…

War without end, amen
So, when we get through with the war in Iraq we must now have a war with Syria, another thuggish country whose regime is truly oppressive and which does evil things and represents such a threat and is believed to support terrorism and which may have sympathies for the Iraqis next door [...]

I see a tall dark stranger … giving up a gopher …

I see a tall dark stranger … giving up a gopher
Great. We have Joan of Arc in the dugout.
The Red Sox are watching their season be looted like Baghdad buildings. No, that’s no quite fair; it’s not being stolen, it’s being given away.
Ah, but hear the inspired manager:
“I had a vision of a ball going [...]

Do as we say, not as we … With the current …

Do as we say, not as we …
With the current track record of so many traditional marriages, you could wonder where opponents of formalizing same-gender relationships get off saying same-sex unions are a worse thing.
Connecticut’s politicians Wednesday let die a proposal that would have recognized some domestic relationships between people of the same sex. A [...]

Acclaim, $$$$ pour in for Iraqi "information" czar…

Acclaim, $$$$ pour in for Iraqi “information” czar
Honors and job offers are flooding the office of hothothot Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi information minister who has become a media and PR industry darling across the world.
“This guy can write his own ticket,” said executive head hunter, Merle Cosnat in New York. “He’s demonstrating all the [...]

C’est la guerre. C’est la vie. La guere est la vie…

C’est la guerre. C’est la vie. La guere est la vie.
Embeddez-moi.
D’accord, I’ll need French a bit better than that but I’m ready to volunteer to be embedded when we invade France.
Clearly the French will be high on the list when we move on after rewriting Iraq’s map to find someone else we don’t like. France [...]

What’s the problem? They’re not of any value or an…

What’s the problem? They’re not of any value or anything.
It’s not like they’re not rich after all.
The good thing about having little kids on the assembly line would be that they take up less space and you could squeeze in more of them. And they eat less so there’s no need for unprofitable lunch or [...]

Smoking to stop smoking, or vice versa Let’s …

Smoking to stop smoking, or vice versa
Let’s see if I have this right.
Philip Morris, purveyor of substances of mass destruction, is in a jam because the courts have fined it billions because its products and policies have caused so much pain, death, grief and illness. Got it? Got it. The highly profitable company which makes [...]

Things can never be the same ever again What …

Things can never be the same ever again
What on earth did we ever do before we had these computers?
Machines do magical things. Science and technology leap to barely imaginable heights. Doctors commit daily miracles, making their parents-in-healing look like primitive witch doctors. Astonishing accomplishments are made commonplace. Knowledge flows like the Mississippi and Amazon and [...]

Thank you, Keith I will have Popeye arms from t…

Thank you, Keith
I will have Popeye arms from tipping my hat to TV wizard Keith Olbermann, who is now running “Countdown” on MSNBC at 8 p.m. Not only is he a gigantic multi-medium talent and superstar but he is also a wonderful and caring guy who nearly alone reached out a hand to my son [...]