Help or Hinder

Despite how you might feel about his values, Sen. Rick Santorum is notorious for being a politician that often stands by his beliefs despite the opinions of others and the political climate at the moment.  But is that his greatest strength or his greatest weakness?  Dick Polman has some thoughts on that as he comments [...]

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Lucky Us

 
After we had finished watching the Casey-Santorum televised debate last night on ABC [1], my roommate reminded me of one of my favorite Lewis Black lines:  “You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas.” [2]  Too often, this sentiment rings [...]

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“They Do Not Move”: A Review of “Waiting for Godot”

 
Much like J.D. Salinger in regards to The Catcher in the Rye, Samuel Beckett was exasperated by requests to explain “Waiting for Godot” to his audience.  Hoping for the play to speak for itself and for others to come to their own conclusions, what has followed since the play was first staged in 1953 have been [...]

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Second Opinion

I hope my article on Sudan piques your interest in the topic, but a better commentary can be found in Jonathan Steele’s “Bush and Blair are deceiving the desperate people of Darfur“.  Unlike myself, this man is actually in that region.

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Empathy or Apathy?

As I explored CNN’s main page yesterday and skimmed through the North Korean updates (good gravy…), the latest on Paris Hilton (please…) and the “runaway bride” re-emerging (oh, why?), I came across this interesting article: “Myspace organizes Sudan fundraiser” [1]. The article (which was at that moment the current headline in the Technology section) details [...]

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Is Santorum Our Next McCarthy?

Probably not quite, but read Tom Ferrick’s “A Churchillian Moment” and keep that in mind.  Make sure to check out the speech Mr. Ferrick references in the article. All sorts of fun!
Also, the whole same-sex marriage issue has died down for the moment but can certainly be revived when the next talking head needs a poll jump.  [...]

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O’Neill, Radke and the Search for Heroes

For those of you who are just getting to know me, you’ll find soon enough that baseball is essentially my religion.  A Yankees fan for as long as I can remember, a Phils supporter since I came to the city that is now my home (so long as they don’t play the Yankees), I love [...]

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Current Quotations

 ”If they stop killing each other, he’ll certainly take the credit for it, so why shouldn’t Street take the blame now?”
 - Michael Nutter, former city councilman and Democratic mayoral candidate, on criticisms of Mayor John Street for failing to curb Philadelphia’s current high-crime problems.  Source: Philly.com, 10/06/06, Marcia Gelbart.
“On big things over time, the American [...]

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Left Behind, or Just Left Alone?

 
For someone who is hoping to start teaching secondary English before too long, I am often concerned and frustrated with the circumstances behind the No Child Left Behind Act [1], the federal law signed by President Bush that has demanded major school reforms throughout the country.  For those who require some background, the Act (also [...]

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Friendly Introductions

Greetings, good friends!  At the urging of certain individuals, I have decided to post my own non-Myspace website where I may freely express my thoughts, views on current events and other such nonsense.  As we begin this weird little journey, this blog may look a bit weak at first as we move along and I [...]

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