"Exit Strategy" is one of those terms that gets bandied about so often that it loses all meaning -- like "jingoist," "compassionate conservative," or "synergy." There are a lot of people -- supporters of the Iraq War and detractors alike -- who keep hooting on and on for somebody to come up with an exit strategy of some sort. Some of these people have their hearts in the right place; others just want a shot at getting into a newspaper story or a CNN newsclip. There are two great problems...

I haven't had cable television since the mid-90s. At the time, I was paying $40 or so a month and only watching 3-4 of the channels offered. I liked the Discovery Channel, I liked the History Channel, and I liked Comedy Central, but I'd rather be eaten by army ants than have to watch the Golf Channel, HGTV, or TBS. The way cable television works, it's like going to a cafeteria and having to pay for every single entree on the line when you're only going to eat a few things. My dad has hi...

The wife and I were on our way home from the grocery store yesterday, listening to the new White Stripes CD and talking about the manicotti we were going to make for supper that night. I was driving along a semi-rural stretch of highway, and I noticed a rather large turtle sitting right near the white line of the road on the shoulder side. I've been known to stop and move turtles off the road but a few things were against me here 1) It was right after 5pm and traffic was decently heavy, 2) ...

I read Michael Moore's site and generally enjoy it. "Enjoy" doesn't mean the same thing as agree, however, and something has struck me in my reading. What is Mike Moore so pissed off about? The guy's pissed off about the war in Iraq, that's for sure. But... But... He keeps posting articles and links to articles about what a sad job America is doing to help Iraqis. Uhhh...what? You don't want the US military in Iraq in the FIRST PLACE, so why should you care who gets helped o...

Many have considered it a symptom of French blindness that the EU Constitution was recently voted down in that country. Dutch voters also voted "no" on it, although they aren't the whipping boys of the American press like the French are. But perhaps the French had it right. And the precedent can be found in America's own history. The EU Constitution sought to bind many different nation-states together under one government -- but it didn't really have any teeth in it to make those nati...

Benefits for straight married couples make no more sense than benefits for homosexual couples do. Because deciding to cohabitate with a person of the opposite sex, procreate, all that -- well, it's a lifestyle choice. Those people who argue that being straight is pure biology, like being black or white, need to wake up and smell the pheromones. Nobody makes you act on your urges, whatever they are -- heterosexual or homosexual. And yet straight people seem to think they deserve some sor...

Vanity Fair broke what should have been the most exciting story of the year -- the identity of Deep Throat. But like Jon Stewart said on the 'Daily Show' -- "Deep Throat is (dramatic pause) a guy you've never heard of !" Ah, how typical. Well, now I'm irritated. I always pictured Deep Throat to be a mixture of the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-Files and James Bond. He was supposed to be the coolest of the cool, not an FBI bureaucrat angry with Nixon over the president's treatme...