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Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30, 2005 Dutch have unique answer to flooding By Len Butcher If I hear any more reports, panel discussions, and watching members of the media looking for fresh blood, all in the name of the blame game over Hurricane Katrina, I’ll throw something through the TV screen.
Gimme a break. There is a monstrous job to be done just to make a place livable for the hundreds [...]
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 Program note By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff have volunteered to teach at a high school journalism symposium Friday morning, so our normal rantings won’t be seen. We’ll be back Monday with all-new episodes.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 Is TV getting tamer? By Len Butcher Is TV viewing getting a lot tamer? I wouldn’t have thought so, but it looks like there’s not as much “indecency†on the tube as we might imagine. That’s if we’re counting the number of complaints filed with the FCC, the watchdog of our airwaves.
According to its quarterly report, indecency and obscenity complaints [...]
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 Taxing credibility By Steve Sebelius Review-Journal business reporter Jennifer Robison must be a terribly conflicted person.
Back in June, Robison penned a long story about how Nevada’s 2003 tax increases were oppressing poor small business people who were just trying to make a living. The story raised the specter of businesses leaving Nevada — or not moving here in the [...]
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 Jon Porter and Tom DeLay By Steve Sebelius You’ve got to love U.S. Rep. Jon Porter. He’s a man who speaks entirely in sound bites, but does it in such a charming, endearing way, hardly anybody pauses to question him.
Hardly anybody, that is. We at Various Things & Stuff are immune to his Jedi mind powers.
Take today, for example, when the [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Taking time to bitch By Len Butcher I’m too young, at least in my mind, to be called a curmudgeon, so for now, I’ll let 60 Minutes’ Andy Rooney play that role. But that doesn’t prohibit me from sounding off about everyday things that really bug me.
I write about this now because today, when I left the supermarket with my groceries, I [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 DeLay indicted; justice not dead! By Steve Sebelius House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted today, according to news reports. The indictment forced DeLay to step down from his leadership post — although not from Congress. (Under rules House Republicans adopted, then later abandoned, DeLay could even have held on to his leadership position, too.)
“I have done nothing wrong,” DeLay [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Mailbag time! By Steve Sebelius Let’s go to the Various Things & Stuff mailbag, where we find an e-mail from our only lookalike (outside of Drew Carey, that is), state Sen. Bob Beers. Beers, as you’ll recall, is running for governor, but he took time out to question our characterization of U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons’ 2003 speech to the Legislature [...]
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Ex-FEMA chief wins prick award By Steve Sebelius Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Michael Brown is turning out to be a Class-A prick. After bungling the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and returning to Washington, D.C., in shame, Brown found the courage to go before a House committee and … blame others.
“My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional,” [...]
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Poverty needs to be addressed By Len Butcher Poverty. A dirty word. It crops up every so often, but not often enough, nor with enough intelligent debate about what to do about it in this land of plenty. Next year our government will spend more than $350 billion on poverty entitlements, hoping to alleviate a problem that an estimated 38 million Americans face. [...]
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