behemoth

There is little doubt among experts and those who have had to endure

I'm in Chicago for a week, attending the big annual USPRA conference and it hasn't been a very good trip so far. First, we had to fly Southwest, the world's lousiest airline. Of course I was given a boarding pass in the B group and was at the very back of the line.

I heard GM’s CEO speaking on the radio yesterday saying that there was no way GM could have predicted the rapid rise in gas prices, as if that was the reason he’s had to cut fifteen billion dollars in expenses in the last year, laying off a quarter of what remains of their workforce.

I have been repeatedly asked by many about my feelings regarding Wednesday's abandoned HUD house takeover by the Nashville Homeless Power Project because some folks seem to mistakenly believe that simply because I am writing the newspaper article for the Contributor, that somehow equates me with being a full fledged supporter of the event. I want to set the record straight here.

It's 5:16 on Friday and I'm done.

I just finished the behemoth known as a 'business plan.'

That's right - we're looking for funding.

Alan Gable is not a big fan of the band-aid Democrats want to put on Social Security:

In the mid-60s, President Johnson flipped a switch and funding for Social Security went from a private trust account to a "pay as you go" system from the general fund. This decision represents a monumental lack of foreward thinking and general ignorance of population trends. Since that time, it has been apparent that this program would go bankrupt sooner rather than later. I'm sure you've heard the numbers. Some estimates say that by 2017 (now less than a decade away), there will be more

Apparently fed up with misinterpretations of more subtle interactions with humans (such as the nun bun, pictured, at a coffee shop behind my house), your deity-of-choice has decided to be a bit more literal.

Scott Ott argues that the only way to keep conservatives in the fold next November is to pick Fred Thompson as Vice President to serve as a bulkwark against any liberal leanings of a McCain Administration: