Every once in a while someone does something so egregious that we view it as a call to action. Yesterday, as we returned from our daily bike ride, we were confronted with just such a situation. While we had been gone, someone had planted little American flags in everyone’s front yards all over [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Battle of Swisshelm Park
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It would be really easy for us today to engage in our favorite pastime, slamming Republicans, as yet another one of them gets caught up in a sex scandal under the most bizarre of circumstances. This time, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who dropped completely out of sight last week, supposedly either “writing a [...]
A Corn Republic
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It just doesn’t want to go away.
Turn on the TV, turn on the radio; look in a newspaper or a magazine.
It’s always there.
Every day.
This debate about “torture” (as people with a conscience call it), or “enhanced interrogation techniques” (as people without a conscience call it) rages on.
Prisoners forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet [...]
Fly Me to the Moon
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2009 | Comments Off
By now, everyone has either heard about or seen the footage of President Obama swatting a fly during a CNBC interview earlier this week. Showing a finesse and dexterity that one doesn’t typically expect to find in heads of state, Obama at first waved off and then dispatched the annoying insect. He then [...]
The Reds and the Blues
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2009 | Comments Off
OMT’s pals over at the Gallup organization published a poll recently which has shown that the Republican Party is losing massively in every demographic group except conservatives, church-goers and seniors. And the bad news (or from our perspective, the good news) is that they’re even losing among those three groups, although the decline is [...]
Going Postal With Jesus
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Open Episcopal Church, an independent, liberal Catholic church based in England, raised some eyebrows among the theological crowd recently, according to our news partners over at The Guardian, when it introduced a new service to its followers, “Host in the Post”, in which a consecrated Eucharist is sent in the mail for just £2 [...]
And Now, “Newsiness”
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | Comments Off
Newsweek, that venerable news magazine published by OMT’s news partners over at the Washington Post, has undergone a seismic shift recently. In a move similar to the one that TV Guide made several years ago, in which they purposely jettisoned local listings, their digest format, and three quarters of their readership, Newsweek’s redesign is [...]
We Don’t Follow, We Lead
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2009 | Comments Off
In an editorial message on their web site today, our news partners over at the BBC have announced that henceforth they will be using the spelling “Taliban” when describing those madcap delinquents over in Afghanistan and Pakistan, instead of “Taleban”, which they had been using up until now.
They are quick to add that “neither version [...]
And Marshall Mathers as The Beaver
Posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The BBC reports that Chinese officials have banned the serving in restaurants of a chicken dish in which the hapless bird is killed by the use of poisonous snakes. After a video exposing the practice was widely circulated on the Internet, showing a cook holding a snake in one hand and a live chicken [...]
