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An "Old Army Vet" and liberal, qua liberal, with a passion for open inquiry in a neverending quest for truth unpoisoned by religious superstitions. Per Voltaire: "He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity."

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Friday, August 19, 2011 at 4:06:02 PM

Article : "What we have to fear isn't just fear"

Hopefully that was an explanation, not an excuse


Friday, August 19, 2011 at 1:58:50 PM

Article : "What we have to fear isn't just fear"

What you hit on is the companion evil to ignorance


Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 3:51:19 PM

Article : "What we have to fear isn't just fear"

When they say that "ugly is skin deep" . . .


Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:13:57 PM

Article : "Our first responsibility is to accept it"

Ignorance is not an excuse, it's an indictment


Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 10:41:20 AM

Article : "Paul Newman explains the Republican Party."

Buy 'this' elixer, we'll own the farm


Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:27:39 PM

Article : "What sort of relationship are you looking for?"

The 2000 media question to voters


Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 3:48:20 PM

Article : "Have you ever had a bronchial infection?"

We can do this.


Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 12:02:48 PM

Article : "The question is: Are you completely nuts? Are we?"

Think China is cutting its education budget?


Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:48:54 AM

Article : "This is a test, but oh it is such an important one"

I met a fellow who said to me, "I think Sarah Palin is neat


Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 6:54:51 PM

Article : "Ms. Elizabeth Warren and the North Carolina weasel"

A yella-bellied weasel walks into this bar . . .


Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 6:42:49 PM

Article : "What Ed Schultz said grieves me deeply."

Robert - CLEAR OUT YOUR EARS


Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 3:41:32 PM

Article : "What Ed Schultz said grieves me deeply."

Where the hell did THAT come from?


Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 8:24:22 PM

Article : "Worse than December 7, 1941"

It is time, past time, if you will . . .


Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 7:49:20 PM

Article : "Worse than December 7, 1941"

I may be old, but this old man will never eat swill


Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 3:49:33 PM

Article : "Guess who . . . we've become"

My mother's favorite poem fits


Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 11:31:56 AM

Article : "Guess who . . . we've become"

With no harsh criticism, another perspective


Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 10:02:39 AM

Article : "Guess who . . . we've become"

Just like in 1964, when Kitty Genovese was murdered


Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 4:26:57 PM

Article : "A fire in New York is being fought by bottom feeders"

Next time you face an emergency, call private enterprise


Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 1:36:57 PM

Article : "From her grave, my aunt castigates Republicans"

Damn the torpedoes . . . and the GOP


Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 5:01:45 PM

Article : "Signing off -- The Cause is Lost, Scat is King"

Like Popeye, I can stands what I can stand but . . .


Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 1:24:19 PM

Article : "Have we all gone nuts"

Being ignorant, like being nuts means . . .


Friday, September 24, 2010 at 4:34:37 PM

Article : "On choosing friends, lovers and associates"

I choose -- carefully -- those with whom I associate


Friday, September 10, 2010 at 4:08:07 PM

Article : "What a foul stew we're concocting"

Not in 10,000 years or a million . . .


Friday, September 10, 2010 at 10:39:22 AM

Article : "What a foul stew we're concocting"

If my friend supported a KKK position and I remained friends


Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 3:31:56 PM

Article : "Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just Beginning"

The wrong fun and exciting question was posted


Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 2:52:25 PM

Article : "Conservatives and conservatism's book burning madness"

Conservatives, I dare you


Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:30:03 PM

Article : "We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without A Fight"

We're all so busy pointing fingers at someone else


Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 10:24:52 AM

Article : "August 26, 1920 . . . If you like your freedoms, thank a lib"

There is nothing good about a good conservative


Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 3:53:27 PM

Article : "Don't let Republican games turn into Republican gains!"

Bend over, maybe that shaft will be a silver mine . . .


Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 10:14:03 AM

Article : "The 'CRITICAL' difference between private and public in publ"

We have a moral obligation to be smart, not stupid


Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 4:48:05 PM

Article : "You can thank a liberal for your freedom"

A conservative thinks hypocrisy is somehow a virtue


Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 12:40:54 PM

Article : "My first run-ins with the damning illogic of the Right"

The virtue is in the pursuit of evidence-based truths


Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:02:03 PM

Article : "I'm looking for a word"

Defying human imagination


Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 3:36:26 PM

Article : "My 8-10-2010 email to the White House"

See sherry, this is the kind of drivel . . .


Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 1:43:46 PM

Article : "My 8-10-2010 email to the White House"

What Most -- obviously -- Do Not Realize


Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 6:20:36 PM

Article : "My 8-10-2010 email to the White House"

Wa-a-ay past time the White House woke up


Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 11:04:19 PM

Article : "How wealthy we must be, to toss our kids into the pit"

I'm embarrassed and ashamed by US policies


Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 1:43:47 PM

Article : "Do Republicans Hate Small Business?"

One ERROR and a bunch of kudos


Friday, August 6, 2010 at 3:43:25 PM

Article : "The Republican plan to wreck the economy and then blame the "

This article is way too long and . . .


Friday, August 6, 2010 at 1:47:17 PM

Article : "While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corpor"

What doc McCoy misses


Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 7:37:27 PM

Article : "While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corpor"

Please . . . I'm begging, tell me exactly


Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 12:36:34 PM

Article : "While you were looking elsewhere, your church and the corpor"

Just because you believe it . . . don't make it so


Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 7:09:03 PM

Article : "I need some help here. Actually, we all do."

A fellow a short time ago . . .


Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 3:01:29 PM

Article : "Telling the facts isn't always the same as telling the truth"

Just because you've stuck to the facts ...


Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 1:05:13 PM

Article : "Senator McConnell -- Ernie Kovacs' Percy Dovetonsils lives"

If only we could get McConnell to read a poem


Friday, July 16, 2010 at 10:55:54 AM

Article : "Bet you don't know: the cost of a gallon of gas in your area"

MY Gawd Eddy, just how is it . . .


Friday, July 16, 2010 at 10:30:43 AM

Article : "Economics in Freefall"

Mr. Chester . . . yes . . . but not entirely


Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 4:05:30 PM

Article : "Bet you don't know: the cost of a gallon of gas in your area"

The part of the cost you don't know just closed your school


Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:22:11 PM

Article : "Charging Wikileaks Source: The Nail in the Coffin of Whistbl"

Why Cindy McCain was dead wrong!


Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 11:23:31 AM

Article : "I found out why we're neck deep in doo-doo"

Radioman --- Not an excuse


Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 4:00:25 PM

Article : "I found out why we're neck deep in doo-doo"

I'm not blaming Glenn Beck. I'm blaming us, and U.S.


Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 7:23:23 PM

Article : "Cowardice, American-Style"

Rossy baby, it's worse than that


Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 10:07:23 AM

Article : "An important speech by Sen Franken to Constitutionalist Soc,"

How our relatives & colleagues vote matters . . . to all


Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 11:50:48 AM

Article : "A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a Failed State"

Layfiel's & BFalcon's chamberpot remarks


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 7:29:08 PM

Article : "The "spill" . . . We've none but our friends to blame"

AbERaMSay -- You weren't supposed to DO THAT!


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 5:36:20 PM

Article : "BP and the Real Boston Tea Party"

Ed Tubbs responding: You confuse me


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 4:43:50 PM

Article : "A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a Failed State"

When self-serving BS is both True AND False


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 4:10:41 PM

Article : "BP and the Real Boston Tea Party"

Boomerang -- Ed Tubbs here. Read my comment


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 3:55:46 PM

Article : "Gulf Oil Spill (part 1)"

Check out "We have none but our friends to blame"


Friday, June 4, 2010 at 11:37:30 AM

Article : "BP and the Real Boston Tea Party"

On ONE point I disagree


Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 6:14:40 PM

Article : "The "spill" . . . We've none but our friends to blame"

Conservative voters, take a bow


Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 6:58:23 PM

Article : "The gift"

Hurling specious epithets don't fix the leak


Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:24:39 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

You REALLY do NOT want to know


Monday, May 31, 2010 at 12:28:12 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

I don't know when . . . but SOON!


Monday, May 31, 2010 at 11:40:22 AM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

I did read "it" and will send you an email


Monday, May 31, 2010 at 10:07:45 AM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

When intentional ignorance prevails


Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 11:58:32 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

Did ya'll notice . . .


Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 5:50:34 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

How a human is like a lizard, or can be


Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 5:35:57 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

I request Rob's intervention in re Mary M


Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 5:24:44 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

Mary M: an example of when ignorance froths


Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 2:15:17 PM

Article : "A few things have just got to be said."

The front of the illegal immigrant din is an affront itself


Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:50:12 AM

Article : "Great Missing the Point Moments in History - One - Placard"

What's that about a picture and 1,000 words?


Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 4:40:45 PM

Article : "How damned stupid do you have to be, to be a conservative vo"

About doc, and his Mayberry world


Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 4:33:31 PM

Article : "How damned stupid do you have to be, to be a conservative vo"

Mayberry -- Not a real place


Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 4:43:17 PM

Article : "Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS"

Editorial correction


Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 4:36:06 PM

Article : "Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS"

Borrowing from both Shakespeare and Aristotle; a gift indeed


Monday, April 5, 2010 at 5:13:26 PM

Article : "Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS"

Tragic . . . to be living under a rock


Monday, April 5, 2010 at 3:31:18 PM

Article : "Calling it like it is: Ugly, dumb, and TREASONOUS"

Talk about non sequiturs and swatting at gnats


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 4:31:07 PM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

Per Darren Wolfe -- Let Blackwater handle all police work


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 12:02:54 PM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

If you haven't called -- just shut the HELL UP!


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 11:33:31 AM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

A cc of my email to Sheriff Youngblood


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 11:23:55 AM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

Don't just comment -- Act NOW !!!!!!!


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 10:25:37 AM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

Load 'em -- then, RELOAD


Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 10:21:52 AM

Article : "Terrifying Video: "I Don't Need a Warrant, Ma'am, Under Fede"

(RE) ACTION NEEDED NOW!!!!


Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 2:42:26 PM

Article : "SPEAK"

Criticism


Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:21:33 AM

Article : "On Reaching about for my Chief Joseph Moment"

Autohor's HUGE CORRECTION


Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 10:07:40 AM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

The poison pill in "Fair and Balanced"


Monday, March 15, 2010 at 2:26:54 PM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

Michael, you captured the full bottle of piss on the subject


Monday, March 15, 2010 at 12:34:06 PM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

Oh Dak, Dak, Dak: You are so naive


Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 11:30:45 PM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

The author weighs in on corporal punishment


Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 1:37:59 PM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

What I failed to note that may confuse


Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 12:42:47 PM

Article : "The Texas Board of Education: America's Taliban."

Shame on you Julie Worley


Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:09:21 PM

Article : "One Way or Another, We're All in That Hurt Locker."

Get the FACTS; Read the bill! The link is below.


Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 10:42:15 AM

Article : "The civil rights battle of our time--expanded medicare for a"

THE real tragedy . . .


Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 11:46:43 AM

Article : "Could the Far Right Be Incited to Go From Raucousness to Vio"

But I failed to suggest . . .


Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 11:34:22 AM

Article : "Could the Far Right Be Incited to Go From Raucousness to Vio"

Pertinent Question, but silly . . .


Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 6:40:09 PM

Article : "America's tenth decile, the "sitting around guys.""

I think Mr. Pietrasz is too optimistic on his timing


Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 5:47:42 PM

Article : "Refusing The Call; Will selfish Seniors hand over the USA's "

More thought . . . please


Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 5:45:29 PM

Article : "Refusing The Call; Will selfish Seniors hand over the USA's"

Alexia . . . understand what I did not say


Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 11:03:25 AM

Article : "Refusing The Call; Will selfish Seniors hand over the USA's "

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