Surrounded by Insanity

I always try to check myself when I’m thinking everyone around me is insane.  Maybe I’m the insane one?
But…damn.  There are the every day inconsequentials wherein, for instance, a friend - gay and pathologically liberal - tells me with a straight face and passionate conviction that he’s sure Sarah Palin wore her hair down in the […]

Palin, Rubes and the Rage of the Left

I ran into an acquaintance last week at church, an ex-Presbyterian pastor. There’s a bit of a difference in our ideology - if Eugene Debs or Noam Chomsky were running for president he’d campaign for them - but our banter is generally friendly as we tease each other about who’s had the latest letter published in The Oregonian.  He said […]

……..PALIN!!!

Fearing that McCain would exercise his ‘maverick’ bona fides  by selecting Joe Lieberman as his VP - as the media had insisted - I cheered when he instead picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  I’ve withheld comment since I didn’t know her any better than anyone, but since the left is desperately comparing the top of […]