From a reader: The clerk responded, "That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment." He was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the … Read more
“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.“ -P.J. O’Rourke I was at a housing office today dropping off some “required paperwork.” As I sat waiting to review … Read more
The Nashua Telegraph spent most of the election season giving up huge chunks of their Sunday commentary page to the mouth-pieces of special interests promoting left wing causes like health care deform, so why stop now that the election has passed? This week we get the implausible assumptions of Cathy Silber, the coordinator of the … Read more
A bit dated, but I never thought about it this way. The Lawyers’ Party By Bruce Walker The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party . Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth … Read more
John McCain (GG file photo) JOHN MCCAIN ADDRESSES MEMBERS OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS (VFW) Today, John McCain will make remarks in Kansas City, Missouri about the mission in Iraq. Ahead of this week’s testimony by General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, he will outline the progress being made in Iraq, the … Read more
If God hadn’t intended us to eat turkey, he wouldn’t have made them taste so good… . Folks, there are some things that are just too good to pass up… From United Poultry Concerns (UPC), a group whose stated mission is "Dedicated to the Compassionate and Respectful Treatment Of Domestic Fowl" comes the following call to action: … Read more
As a followup to yesterday’s posting, here is my weekly newspaper column as published in the Laconia Daily Sun, which is not available online… Exercising the First by Doug Lambert Education? Marketing? Propaganda. When I wrote of the canceling of the OreoMobile demonstration at the Laconia Teen Center several weeks ago, I reminded readers never to … Read more