Entries from April 2008

April 26, 2008

I Feel Safer Already

Thanks to a 50% increase in a Homeland Security Grant the New York City subway system will be getting five or six teams of super cops carrying: Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs. I say hurray!
Just the word submachine gun got me digging through my closet looking for some appropriate 1930s [...]

April 21, 2008

Menu Selection Has Meaning Too

I was listening to NPR this week and Cokie Roberts brought up a really interesting theory. She thought perhaps, consciously or not, Bill was sabotaging Hillary’s campaign. He brings up issues after they passed (sniper bullets in Bosnia was usurped by Barack’s comments about working class people being bitter and clinging to guns and [...]