That title got your attention, didn’t it? It got mine, too. Jump back to Thanksgiving morning in the Zemon living room. I am quietly sitting in my easy chair, sipping coffee and enjoying the peace of the day before we rush into the hustle bustle of hosting the annual turkey day feast. All is right […]
Archives for November 2007
Express Lanes Ignore Real Problems
President Bush announced a “plan” to get holiday travelers to their destinations closer to on-time this holiday season. CNN.com wrote it up in, Skepticism about holiday air travel ‘express lane’. Bush announced a series of technical measures Thursday to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded and turned holiday travel […]
$1,300,000,000,000
Yesterday I discussed $20,900,000, the amount of money that the families in my sons’ high school have spent on the Iraq war since 2002. The war has cost each of the 1,000 families $20,900. Let’s try this from the Iraqi perspective. The total cost of the Iraq war will have been $1.3 trillion during the […]
$20,900,000
CNN.com reports, in War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009, panel estimates, …[the] Joint Economic Committee [of Congress]… estimated $1.3 trillion in war costs by the end of 2008 for Iraq, and the remainder [of the 1.6 trillion estimate] for Afghanistan…. The committee calculated the average cost of both wars for a family of […]
Plummeting Pumpkins Pound Perimeter
The Silvercreek Glider Club returned to the battlefield on the Saturday after Halloween to make another attack on a target in the middle of a farm field. The weapon of choice: pumpkins! You have to hear it to believe the noise a pumpkin makes when it hits the ground after falling 1,000 feet. Twenty-two intrepid […]
Sure As ****
I just got some bad news and thought to myself, “I sure as hell don’t want ____ to happen.” That made me wonder, why hell? Of all the things in the universe to be absolutely certain of, why hell? As with so many colloquialisms, I do not actually believe in this one any more than […]
