If you saw last night’s 60 Minutes interview with Al Gore (see it here), you would have seen Al riding to the rescue, but not in the fight that we wrote about in yesterday’s post (Al to the Rescue ?, March 30). In fact, he wouldn’t even discuss the Democratic nomination brouhaha, except to [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Yes, Al to the Rescue
Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Touch of Class
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here at OMT, we like to think that we have class, and to prove it, we’ve decided that it was time to get rid of the cool blue design of One Man’s Tofu that you’ve come to know and love, and replace it with something warmer, something a little more dignified. You are looking [...]
Al to the Rescue ?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers of this blog know that we deplore the protracted battle for the Presidential nomination in which the Democratic party is currently engaged. We’ve written several times about our concern that it will lead to a crippling of the Democratic party so serious that it might actually defy the odds and result in [...]
The Cost of War, and Other Thoughts
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to the National Priorities Project, a group that “analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent”, the war in Iraq is costing the American taxpayers around $275 million dollars a day. That comes to $11,458,333.33 an hour. Or $190,972.22 per minute. [...]
Let’s Try This Again
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
First, let me apologize for being off the air for nearly two weeks. I want to thank all of you who emailed me urging me to get back to OMT, even as I didn’t take your advice.
There’ve been a lot of things going on that have kept me away from OMT, not the least [...]
The Bug That Wouldn’t Leave
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, I couldn’t take it anymore, and finally went to the doctor about this chest cold that I haven’t been able to shake, and as it turns out, it was in the nick of time. After half an hour on that little gizmo that lets you breathe medicated steam, followed by a chest X-ray, [...]
Mario’s and My Physical Nadir
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know how many more of these Pittsburgh winters I can take.
When I woke up on Thursday morning at the usual time, and cleared my throat as I climbed out of bed, I felt a strange pain deep inside my lung. “Oh jesus”, I thought, “what the hell is this?”.
It hadn’t been quite [...]
Time for the High Road
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no denying that the closeness of the last two Presidential elections has played a major role in the deep chasm that has divided American politics in the past eight years. From our perspective, Bush definitely stole the first one, and probably stole the second one, too. But whether or not you believe [...]
Finally it’s Our Turn
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Has your luck run out?”,
she laughed at him,
“Well, I guess you must have known
it would someday.”
—- Bob Dylan
“Lilly, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts”
Again this morning, as we did in the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, OMT gloats at those failed soothsayers, the pundits and commentators, who had, as [...]
Whose Election is This, Anyway ?
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Conventional wisdom. We’re sure you’re all familiar with the term. It’s what the media concludes is inevitable after weeks and weeks of navel contemplation. After talking among themselves, and with the advisors, assistants and hangers-on of the people they are covering. The conclusions that they draw after all of this self-contained [...]
