February 2010 Archives

I think most people who live in the real world (leaving out the gutless wonders who inhabit Washington, D.C.) will agree that if we ever hope to get our fiscal house in order some tough choices will have to be made. David Pauly has a piece at Bloomberg today with 9 suggestions:1) Restore all income taxes to the pre-President George W. Bush level, not just those for people earning $250,000 or more. 2) Tax the...

As I write this, I want to establish that I am only talking about other people's opinions and not my own. As a Clear Lake resident, I am around people in the space industry on a daily basis. Some people stand in awe at astronauts while those of us in Clear Lake kind of yawn. However, we are acutely aware of important the space industry is to our immediately community. I would harbor the guess...

We've heard the cries that "it's time to stop being politically correct and start profiling Muslims at airports!" I contend that it would be an ineffective practice that would make us less safe from terror attacks. When we go through security checkpoints at the airport, every single passenger passes through a metal detector. Shoes are removed and x-rayed. Belongings are scrutinized with x-ray technology by trained security personell. Those that look suspicious, those that...

Burnout is a relatively new term. I can't be too sure, but I think it may have orginated "as a term" when Dick Vermeil resigned as the Philadelphia Eagles coach in the early 1980s. Vermeil returned later and ended up winning a Superbowl with the Chiefs. When he resigned he was still a very young man and no one could really explain why. Naturally, burnout has occured before and in a lot less famous circles....

It's no secret by now that I've been disappointed in some of the actions of the Obama administration. None more so than their continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies of dealing with those accused of terrorist activities. I expected much better from a president who professed to be something of a Constitutional scholar, and the administration bowing to pressure over the weekend from those who are against trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 others in New...