As my Dad used to say, "When you find yourself in a hole too deep to climb out of, the first thing to do is stop digging." ...more

March 15, 2009

Ample Rain Is Falling Every few days the Tribune prints an item about the area's water supply woes, usually blaming them on drought or the "ongoing three-year drought." ...more

February 14, 2009

Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that "the American empire" is nearing collapse. ...more

September 24, 2008

A new study that slams broadcast television for glorifying kinky sex and ignoring good, old-fashioned marital sex (and presumably unkinky) is really an indictment of public tastes. ...more

August 7, 2008