A DOPEY KIND OF OPTION (in competitive sports) Lance Armstrong’s public admission that he did indeed use performance enhancing drugs is a sad commentary on the mindset in today’s professional sports community. He is the most recent member of it
January 22, 2013
CALLING FOR STRONG LEGISLATIVE ACTION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE (…is much like spitting to windward) The Newtown slaughter seems to have been the last straw as far as most of the public is concerned. So it is all fired up to
L’ALGERIE ANTI-FRANCAISE (…may stir up the dregs of a former bitter colonial divorce) The Islamist militants who attacked and kidnapped a group of expatriate workers from a half dozen countries ( including several Americans), from one of Algeria’s major gas
IS IT A CASE OF CHITTY-CHITTY-BANG-BANG… (…or rather a matter of Boeing-Boeing…Boing?) Even in the not-so-user-friendly skies of today’s commercial aviation, Boeing has generally maintained its reputation as the premier brand for anything that flies those skies. In fact for
A TALE OF TWO SPECIES (…and their confrontation gone wrong) Every now and then an oddball item pops up in the news which catches my eye, and this is one of them. It’s about a young Staffordshire terrier named –