Smaller government? Spending reform? What if we try to clamp down on junkets -- $1 billion over five years? Love this one:
Was it necessary to send a whopping 200 HHS employees to a Netherlands "International Symposium on Night and Shiftwork"? Wouldn't it have saved us all time and money if the HHS researchers traveled to a nearby 7-11 or nursing home instead?
Wow. Staying off drugs -- what a great job. $40 a week might not sound like much, but I'll volunteer to stay off drugs for $35. If the price is right, I'll also stay off vodka, parimutuel betting, pipe smoking, beastiality, foot fetishism and watching "American Idol." I knew I'd eventually find a way to give up the 9-to-5 grind.
A colleague asked if I was going to blog about the Bush-bashing by the "mourners" at the Coretta Scot King funeral, since it was so over the top and unseemly. Obviously, yes. But I don't have much to add to all the commentary at hundreds of other sites, both nationally and locally.
I have offended Cathie Humbarger, executive director of Allen County Right to Life. I wrote an editorial brief saying that House Bill 1172 would require doctors to lie to patients considering an abortion by telling them that a fetus can feel pain and that life begins at conception.
Do the math and find out how your finances would look in a debt-to-income-ratio analysis:
Of course, mortgage lenders have long used ratios to determine whether applicants are credit-worthy. Typically, they like to limit your housing expenses to 28 percent of your gross income, and your total debt payments to no more than 36 percent of your income.
I have a subscription to Newsweek, which I consider a wonderful time-saver. If I want to keep up on liberal orthodoxy, I don't have to read the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. times and all the rest or watch any of the major network newscasts. Newsweek has the distilled essence of liberal thinking, reported and commented on by likeminded people who think they're being dispassionate and objective because they talk only to each other. They exist in a bubble, you might say.
How out of touch are these people? They needed fancy polls to tell them that today's music stinks. All they had to do was listen to the radio.
The struggle for the future of the world goes deeper than "the West" trying to persuade "Muslim moderates" to disavow the tactics of a bunch of extremists. It should be obvious by now that there is a deep, fundamental difference over the very idea of self-government.
I'm surprised the subject of "office spouses" hasn't gotten more attention. My work experience has always been better when I've had a close confidant of the opposite sex. Office politics have become so treacherous that it's vital you have someone you can say absolutely anything to and who can say absolutely anything to you. I don't know why it seems to work out better with the opposite sex, although I have a theory or two.
Now maybe all you global-warming alarmists will shut up:
A number of environmentally oriented Web sites even have begun raising the alarm that global warming could threaten the future of Kentucky bourbon itself.
