Hope

Ace of Spades HQ: “Why do you want to live here and not in Europe?” I asked a young woman from Ethiopia, who tipped back her Seattle Mariners baseball cap and looked at me as if I were completely mad. “Europe,” she said disdainfully. “What do they ever hope for in Europe? Here they have Continue reading Hope

Is this for real or not?

I can’t decide. Hey, just because we elected one actor as president doesn’t mean we should try that again. Walken 2008 – Official Website: “Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our Continue reading Is this for real or not?

The next big thing

So I think I’ve finally figured out that we have our Next Big Thing™, that Great Menace which has come to fill the void in our American psyche since the Berlin Wall was torn down, and we no longer have the Communist Menace to focus our angst and fear on. We have Islamic Terrorism. This Continue reading The next big thing