Perhaps now we can get to the bottom of this

June 24, 2013

Did Dave work hard for the money?

by Steve Timmer

“I think there has been an incredible double standard here”

June 23, 2013

Sings the Paynesville Warbler

by Steve Timmer

What the Chaplain said at Dover

June 20, 2013

You do not want to go to Dover, at least not as a civilian. To be more specific you don’t want to go there to receive the remains of military death. Of course under the Bush administration you could not go there. No way did they want the public riled up about these deaths. But […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt

The Mad World of Climate Change Denial

June 19, 2013

Book review: The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism; Mankind and Climate Change Mania (by Steve Goreham, New Lenox Books, 2012) (Note from Tony and Steve: Lois is a DLer and told us one evening recently about this absurd book that had been sent to her as an environmental chemistry instructor. We said, why don’t […]

by Lois Schadewald

Teach for America extends the franchise!

June 18, 2013

In a bold and entirely unpredicted move, Teach for America officials have decided to extend the franchise across the board. According to a TFA spokester: With racial gaps everywhere you look: education, income, housing, health care, we thought to ourselves, “Heck, why limit our horizon to just K-12 education?” The Teach for America model will […]

by Steve Timmer

Roger Goodell defends legacy of racist

June 13, 2013

There are four teams in Major League Baseball and the National Football League that still use Native American themed names and imagery for their team identities; the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins. While they all have their own specific problems (Chief Wahoo immediately comes to mind), one of them stands […]

by Tony Petrangelo

Is the Fourth Estate actually a Kangaroo Court?

June 11, 2013

What these three names, Ellsberg, Manning and Snowden, have in common is that they were, are, or will be tried in the press well before they were, are, or will be tried in a court of law. In each case it is about secrets. Reflecting back across the years the trial that never occurred, but […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt

We are not amused

June 9, 2013

Say Michael Brodkorb and Greg Walsh

by Steve Timmer

Under the spreading chestnut tree

June 5, 2013

For all too long now the false allegory of government expense as a family budget has held sway. It crops up all the time, the couching of government balancing its budget like a family at the kitchen table. There is a better metaphor for government. It is much more like a black smith’s shop. A […]

by Jeff Wilfahrt