TheWriteJerry @ September 3, 2007 # 5 Comments
No, I don’t relish the idea of pouring more profits into the pockets of business people who wouldn’t know the cold end of a stethoscope even if you shoved it up their spreadsheet.
TheWriteJerry @ August 23, 2007 # 2 Comments
Since the horror that was 9/11, and the failed attempt of the shoe bomber, all of us have wondered at the inane security rules imposed upon air travelers within and to the United States. The stories of the ineptitude of the TSA are legion.
First lighters were banned, and then recently unbanned. Uh, why does anybody […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
So there I was, a victim of The Sweep…
Trapped in a room with 12 other unemployed people and one “Labor Service Representative,” I had just been told that to keep my unemployment insurance checks coming in, I would have to attend some workshops - workshops that strangely sounded like the Department of Labor’s way of […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 21, 2007 # 2 Comments
I have never before applied for unemployment. I have never before been laid off. Unfortunately, after nearly nine years in the same job, I found myself having one done to me and me deciding to do the other. And yet, even though I’m a first-timer in the system, I today found myself caught up in […]
TheWriteJerry @ August 9, 2007 # 3 Comments
Hillary Clinton wants you to pay my mortgage.
Well, okay, not my mortgage specifically. I don’t qualify for her proposed $1-billion taxpayer bailout of homeowners in default of their mortgage. Mainly because I am not in default of my mortgage. I read the fine print on my mortgage contract. And I made sure I could […]
TheWriteJerry @ July 31, 2007 # 2 Comments
The war on drugs has taken many a twist and turn over the past several decades. Nancy Reagan urged drug users to just say no… Medicinal marijuana use has been debated in and out of local governments and courts… Cold medicines have been put behind the counter to deter chemistry-minded kids… And now it appears […]
TheWriteJerry @ July 19, 2007 # 2 Comments
Allow me to make two things perfectly clear:
I am in favor of sex.
I am in favor of education.
Allow me to make two more things perfectly clear:
I am in favor of sex between mature, married (to each other) adults only.
I am in favor of education.
So where does that leave the issue of sex education? Should our […]
TheWriteJerry @ July 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I don’t recall ever being a fan of the United States’ Congress.* And, more to the point, I am definitely not a fan of the now-sitting contentious, grandstanding Congress (who according to a recent Gallup survey enjoy the lowest rating in American history!), nor any part of the political circus that currently passes for the […]
