My wife Kelly, the practical joker, pulled one one me last night. And just to show her, I’m going to pull one on…er….assist the Democratic Party. I arrived home from work yesterday afternoon and walked into my home office to drop the briefcase and books I was carrying. I noticed something taped on my computer [...]

I watched the two main speeches of last night’s RNC Convention opening. John McCain gave an excellent speech and left no doubt to anyone in the media that George Bush is his man. The survivor women of the September 11 heroes moved everyone as they related to America the courageous acts of their husbands and [...]

Would you pay attention to someone whose advice was no good for anyone before? Then why, in his right mind, would John Kerry listen to campaign advice from Donna Brazile, whom handled Al Gore’s pitiful campaign in 2000? According to Brazile, there are a few things Kerry needs to do to win. For example, he [...]

Well, there goes my day off. Looks like the Russian-centered Internet meltdown scare was just a lot of hyperbole. Back to the coal mine.

Can we get something straight regarding this entire military service thing? A lot is being made about John Kerry’s honorable service in the Navy. People toss the word honorable around like it was some kind of gold lining that make ones military service better then others. The fact is (and anyone who’s served a successful [...]

Swell. Some Russian computer technology expert is predicting a massive Internet meldown tomorrow, August 26. This will be caused, he claims, by an “electronic jihad” that will cause a denial-of-service attack that will affect the entire Internet infrastructure. Naturally, he provides no specifics, making he prediction similar to many recent terrorist warnings here in the [...]

If you want a perfect demonstration as to why no one, not even liberals, can take John Kerry seriously, just read this account of an appearance he made on The Daily Show, a fake news comedy program on the Comedy Central cable network. Though he did seem to try to discuss issues by launching “into [...]

I believe there is a new, insidious plot to get everyone to buy this new diet pill that’s being advertised everywhere. You know the one, with the doctor who acts like we should know who he is, or at least completely trust what he says. The pill magically blocks something from somewhere in some part [...]

This is almost too good to be true… The Wayans Brothers, whose last movie, White Chicks, was a funny idea that didn’t seem to go over so well, are planning on producing a movie remake of the television show The Munsters. Considering what will probably happen in this November’s election, I can think of the [...]

According to this story, quite a few thousand people somehow managed to register to vote in both New York and Florida. One man allegedly voted in both places in the last few presidential elections. Here’s what I don’t quite understand: if 68% of the 45,000 people were registered in both states as Democrats, how did [...]

Sorry, Janet. The war in Iraq was going on for ten months (and in fact, was technically over eight months) before you flashed your 40-year-old, hubcap-covered boob during the Super Bowl in January. For heaven’s sake, woman, this would have soonner taken my attention away from Iraq, along with this, or this, or even this, [...]

With all the Kerry-Swift Boat-He Said-They Said going on in recent days, new information continues to come to the forefront about the Kerry campaign, as they attempt to stifle the voices of the vets. One of the loudest cries in recent days from the Kerry camps is that the Swifties are colluding with the G.O.P. [...]

I’ve been a bit busy with work and volunteer obligations this week, along with watching thriller Yankee comebacks. We have a Jaguars preseason home game tonight, which means unless something important pops up while I’m at the office today, I’m not getting back here until late. Since I appreciate your visits here, I’d like to [...]

Now it’s time to give a friend’s blog a plug. Naturally, there’s a story involved. In March of 2003, shortly after I started this blog, I was searching for some interesting news one day, when I found the story of Minnesota mortgage broker Marty Johnson, who discovered that he was not only adopted as a [...]

Okay, here’s another reason that the Olympics suck…. Perhaps the American beach volleyball team can explain to me how they lost their match today against Switzerland. That’s right. Switzerland. The defeat ended another disappointing Olympics for Nygaard, a member of the indoor team from 1993-2000. Counting his records in Atlanta and Sydney, Nygaard’s teams are [...]

Has anyone noticed that, while the President conveniently keeps silent on the issues of John Kerry’s Vietnam service, Kerry himself continues to make political hay out of the issue, pulling himself deeper into the muck of fabrications about his Vietnam service? I made the comment last week that President Bush has avoided making any kind [...]

Last week, a letter appeared in the local paper claiming that the Swift Boat vets were not telling the truth about John Kerry. I mentioned it in this piece, and it concerned me enough to write a reply to the letters editor at the Times-Union. They published my letter in Tuesday’s edition. There were a [...]

I knew this would happen, and so did you. You knew that somehow, somewhere, some news media outlet was going to raise the specter of the political campaign in President Bush’s visit Sunday to the hurricane-ravaged Florida west coast. Naturally, that media outlet is the Washington Post, in a story syndicated to other papers. They [...]

I really don’t care much about the Olympics, as I’m not in a brotherly mood now or for the forseeable future. This never prevents me, however, from questioning why we even bother with this pain-in-the-ass event that doesn’t do much more than disrupt the normal flow of network television. First of all, what the hell [...]

The unexpected late movements of Hurricane Charley provided my area of Florida with a just-missed scenario on Friday night/Saturday morning. The original expectations were that Charley would make landfall near Tampa, then come up the peninsula and stay west of the Jacksonville area, which also would have been a miss for most of us. As [...]