OK, media. He caved.
Yesterday, Barack Obama denounced in no uncertain terms the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the things he’s said, both in the past as well as in his tirade at the National Press Club earlier this week.
You got what you wanted.
Although, we wonder why you think this is so important. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
With Friends Like These …
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
And Now, Increased Cancer Risk, Thanks to the Bush Administration
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In what is only the latest example of the Bush/Cheney regime’s general policy of cutting the legs off of every federal agency within the administration, we learned yesterday that they are now undermining the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals by letting nonscientists have a bigger say in these [...]
Some Thoughts on House Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
April 29th is a day of note in the OMT household; for it was on this day in 1995 when we moved into our home, a modest 2-story provincial, built in 1939, here in the Swisshelm Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
We love this place … As we told our buddy Skippy when he asked [...]
The Republican’s “Rush” to Defeat
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rush Limbaugh is an amusing guy. Even for a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur. Sometimes he, like those kids on the Art Linkletter program so many years ago, says the darndest things.
Rush’s stock has been dropping in the past couple of years. More and more of his fans are coming [...]
Good Idea, Hillary
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the wake of ABC’s so-called “debate” on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, in which trivial nonsense and vapid symbolism were the dominant features, served up in generous measure by two, again “so-called”, journalists who should have known better, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have indicated that they’ve had just about enough of [...]
Just Touching Base
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been an incredibly busy Saturday so far, and it’s going to continue to be busy well into the evening. It occurred to us a few minutes ago that if we fail to make a post today, it will be the first day in April in which we didn’t.
We are loathe to break our [...]
You Say Colony Collapse, I Say Mary Celeste
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We tend to read from the British news sources quite a bit; The BBC, the Times of London, the Guardian, etc., mainly because they provide us with a different perspective on events, but also because we find stories in those sources that yapping American newshounds either ignore outright or to which they give short shrift. [...]
Padre Pio’s Back, and OMT’s Got Him
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a follow-up to a piece we did a couple of months ago (“Brother Love’s Traveling Cadaver Show“, January 14), after months of preparation, Italy’s Padre Pio has finally gone on display in Puglia, 40 years after his death in 1968.
Courtesy of the BBC, you can see him in either still photographs, or in a [...]
Random Thoughts for a Spring Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On the 7th floor of the building in which we work, there is an office directly across from the elevator that was the business home of a small group of attorneys. They seemed to be doing a reasonably good business, or at least it appeared so, because every time the elevator would open on [...]
Some Observations Through the Settling Dust
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, Pennsylvania has made its choice. Having a relevant role in the process for the first time in decades, voters in the Keystone State have told the rest of the country, and the media, that they won’t have anything shoved down their collective throat.
In the final analysis, Hillary Clinton came in a healthy 10 [...]
