I’ve been fascinated with the Batman character since I was a kid in the ’60s reading every issue of Batman and Detective Comics.
Batman is a special kind of super hero, one without magical powers or alien physiology. He relies on his own intelligence, athletic skill, and technology. Batman is man at his peak achievement. [...]
Entries from August 2008
Dark Knight
August 31, 2008
Good People and Bad People
August 31, 2008
Scooter Libby broke the law, was tried, convicted and sentenced. George Bush pardoned him and he avoided jail. Did Bush do this because Libby was secretly acting on orders from him, or the Vice President? Possibly, but the expressed reason was that Libby was a good person. George Bush seems to have this idea that [...]
McCain Picks Whats-her-name
August 31, 2008
It says something to me that Barak Obama picked Joe Biden as his running mate; it says that Obama is not afraid of working with people who have more experience in politics than he, people with independent stature.
McCain’s choice of a hockey mom who stumbled into politics from the PTA and served as governor for [...]
A Question of Experience
August 28, 2008
In the 2008 presidential election, I’m sure experience is going to be a big issue. Does putting an inexperienced person in the White House (like for example George W. Bush) automatically lead to an abysmal administration?
It’s my opinion, largely based on Scott McClellan’s insider book (What Happened) on the Bush administration, that it was not [...]
Anti books
August 16, 2008
I was just down at Sam’s Club where they had a couple of books; Obama Nation and The Case Against Barak Obama–attack books. The title leaves no doubt about what the book’s trying to do. What use is a book like that? One knows from the outset that the book is biased and tells only [...]