Germophobes can’t be president

Everyone stop pretending Donald Trump is a legitimate candidate for president. Not that there aren’t many other reasons to consider the prospect thoroughly ludicrous, but dig:  Donald Trump won’t shake hands.  No person who won’t shake hands can win the presidency. I was no big Bob Dole fan, but honestly, I always wondered just how … Read more

Peanuts, sweet potatoes, flying the Command Module…

So when I got back from purchasing tires for the Technical Writing Express this morning—ouch—Lea and the boys were snuggled up in our bed and enjoying goofy conversation.  What a perfect thing to be doing on a stormy Saturday morning, right? The boys were telling silly, invented-on-the-spot jokes about Neil Armstrong going down the steps, … Read more

“Present” foreign policy

Can President Obama surprise me anymore? I think authenticated video of him in the bed of a 4×4 wearing a nasty old Skynyrd shirt and shotgunning a Natty Light might do it. I read a column or two between the 2008 election and Obama’s inauguration that scolded “yeah, Obama’s about to get a trial by … Read more

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