A(nother) Modest Proposal

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  February 21st at 03:17 PM  | 

Now that President Obama has defeated the dastardly Republicans’ evil War on Women, America has returned to a more normal place, where Democrat legislators in Colorado can lecture women on how to behave while being raped. Thank God–or to avoid offending those not given to bitter clinging, thank the form or being who constitutes the central focus of your particular faith tradition, if you have | Read More »

Bludgeoning the American Dream

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  May 27th at 01:13 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com During last month’s  bizarrely partisan ambush of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis), President Hosni Obama (D-Chi) said the Republican budget plan would “end Medicare as we know it.” Since then, Democrats have been demagoging seniors, blatantly lying, and jeopardizing national security, in a naked bid to reclaim control of the House of Representatives. Obviously Ryan’s plan, which isn’t scheduled to begin for ten years, won’t | Read More »

The Customer is Always Right?

By: mlgoodell (Diary)  |  January 6th at 01:51 PM  | 

http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com When my mother-in-law died last July, the funeral home informed us that they would contact the Social Security Administration, as required by law. We didn’t think anything more about it until just recently when my wife deposited a check into an account we’ve been using to cover expenses at her mother’s still-unsold house. That’s when she discovered there was about $5,000 more in the | Read More »