The GOP is threatening to eliminate funding for the Export-Import Bank, which provides financing for companies selling US products to foreign buyers. If you’re not familiar with the workings of this institution, you can learn more here Why,…
Los Angeles just raised the minimum wage to $15 Havoc will ensue. My previous post — warned what would happen if the minimum wage was raised to $10/hour, but $15/hour? Remember you heard it here first. Every fish taco stand…
In today’s newspapers, I read three seemingly unrelated stories, which upon retrospection are in fact related. One had to do with the crash of the Germanwings plane earlier this month. The current best guess is that the pilot purposely crashed…
Readers of my previous postings on the Church of Biggie M know me to be a spiritual guy and hardly an opponent of what people call religion, although I do draw the line at Scientology. But this one took me…
This week Indiana passed a “Religious Freedom” bill that would exempt business from having to serve same-couples if that would somehow infringe on the religious beliefs of the owners. Now, when I grew up, Jews were routinely called “Christ…
We’ve been hearing a bit these days about robots replacing humans for mundane tasks and self driving cars are already a reality. Many years ago, I wrote a birth announcement for a colleague as if it were a new product…
There is a video on CNN today of a supposedly mentally ill man shot dead by police because he refused to drop a screwdriver. Yes, a screwdriver can be a weapon and some mentally ill can act erratically but the…
Given the Supremes recent decision to take up the matter, the New York times today had an Op-Ed piece on the Death Penalty today. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/the-humane-death-penalty-charade.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-regionon This blog post is not about whether or not we as a society should execute people.…
This has been a big week for Vladimir Putin. He’s sending more troops and supplies to the border with the Ukraine, has sent ships near Australian waters (to protect Russian interests in the Outback???), and may be testing NATO air…
The Church of Biggie M, referenced in a previous post, announces today that it’s Executive Committee has recommended the creation of executive positions to help the Church in its mission. These new positions are: CTO = Chief Theology Officer (for…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have said it very well in her dissent — — but now with the Supremes weighing in on the Hobby Lobby decision, I want to make clear that employees of any organization run by member of…
Taxes are BAD. Never mind that they pay for a civilized society. Never mind that without them life as we know and like would not exist. Taxes are BAD, instruments of the Devil, unAmerican, and are always proposed by Liberals…
In a shocking new revelation, Karl Rove announced today that Hillary Clinton is a space alien from a planet in the Crab Nebula that he declined to name. He added that he had proof of this and will produce…
We have just learned that Dabo Swinney, the head football coach at Clemson University has an annual salary of $9,315,600 in 2020 in a state where the minimum wage is $7.50 Let’s suppose that someone worked 60 hours a week,…
Last week there were a few stories in the New York Times, seemingly independently written and unrelated to one another. The first concerned the Supreme Court backing the Michigan ban on race as a factor in college entry. The second…
13 April 2014 The Blame Game, in addition to being the name of a popular song, is an expression that means finding someone/something to blame when things go badly. While the term is new, the action is eons old. …
Today, April 2, just one day too late for symbolic effect, the Supreme Court announced that there are no limits to the amounts individuals, groups, corporations, etc. can contribute to political campaigns. The punditry believes that this will increase the…
March 18, 2014 — Russian Czar Wannabe Vladimir Putin announced today the Russia has annexed the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn NY. Citing unspecified fears from the mostly Russian population of Brighton Beach of limitations on vodka and blini imports,…
What’s in a Name? You may think that the real issues inside the Beltway deal with the workings of the U.S. government or the lack thereof. Actually, there is a much larger issue that seems to be gaining ground, or…
