The Fourth Law of Robotics: Voter Early, Vote Often

My dad recently asked me what my ideal candidate for political office would be.  I thought about it for a second... 'Robot.' 'Haha...seriously.  You have to vote for a person.' 'Okay...robot.' 'Alright, son.  I'll play along.  Why a robot?' 'They have no party affiliation.  They do what they're told.  They don't need food or sleep …

Would You Like My Vote With That?

 I’m a sucker for market research. Will I ‘Definitely’ do them, ‘Maybe’ do them, or ‘Not Lkely’ to do them? Definitely ‘Defintely’! Marketing is slick.  You might not realize it, but most everything you see on TV, hear on the radio or read in a magazine is filtered through people like me.  Ever hear of …

Going Rogue: The Review

So… My dad gave me the Sarah Palin book, Going Rogue for Christmas because he knows I have no use for her and he thought it would be funny.  Despite my promise to return the book ‘on the way to the airport’, I have decided to keep the book and try and read it. How’s …

Sarah Palin: Go Gently Into That Good Nighto

So, it’s the holiday weekend and me and my in-laws are sitting around watching tv and we hear ‘…with 18 months to go in her term…’ accompanied by a photo of The Barracudinator or whatever they’re calling Gov. Palin these days. “What was that?” "Don’t know, try another station." We flip around and come to: …

Where do I sign up?

“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member” – Groucho Marx, probably others. I agree with that. Totally and whole-heartedly. I was never a boy scout (on so many levels), a frat-boy, or a Young anything. I will never belong to a country club, or serve on a …

Expanded domestic drilling and its ‘benefits’

We could drill everywhere in the U.S. and not meet our energy needs or reduce prices. The U.S. contains only 3 or 4 percent of the world's proven oil and gas reserves. As the U.S. Department of Interior has indicated, at the most, only 4 billion barrels of oil reserves lie off the entire Atlantic …