Clinton goes negative

…and my dislike for her, already high, grows. Obama’s response: What we saw this morning is why the American people are tired of Washington politicians and the games they play. But Sen. Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill advised remark, about King...

More song titles

I occasionally ask Jonah for some song titles, because frankly children tend to be much more creative than adults. Since they’re not “locked in” to certain words or phrases, they’ll happily put together whatever random ideas wander across their...

About what I expected

The Steelers season ended Saturday in a Wildcard game loss to Jacksonville. It was about what I expected. Despite having the number 1 defense in the NFL, we’d played relatively poorly of late and the loss the Pro Bowl DE Aaron Smith was devastating. Our...

A very good night

Barak Obama’s solid victory in Iowa portends, I hope, great things. I continue to believe he may well be the right person at the right point in time. John Edwards kept his campaign alive, though one can’t help but think that after spending so much time and...

The Iowa caucus 2008

Long-time readers may recall my words of four years ago: Never before had I witnessed the messy democracy that is the Iowa caucus. I’m not convinced this is the best way to elect a president, but it sure made for exciting reality TV on C-SPAN. I don’t know...