Category Archives: Politics

So William Timmins at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas threw out his singer and kept the “few audience members” who were tearing up the place. Aren’t you supposed to throw out the people who are tearing up the place?
And today my newspaper spends twelve column inches on a story from Washington complaining that military people with critical skills leave the service, taking their expensive training to private contractors for higher pay, better retirement, and education benefits. Excuse me, but the “explosion in outside contractor work” is a result of the military outsourcing everything from cooking to engineering. Remember, you are outsourcing to save money. If you want people to stay, hire them, pay them, and give them benefits.

So, if the Republicans are the party of family values and restoring decency, tell me why it is that if we took the Bushes and the Cheneys out and put the Kerrys and the Edwardses in, the White House would look (and sound) more like Beaver Cleaver’s house and less like Tony Soprano’s.