Ten years ago, the presidential election of 2000 was finally decided by a 5 to 4 decision from the United States Supreme Court. At the time I thought the result was an outrage. I still do. I wrote a series of three columns about the election on three successive weeks starting ten years […]
Archives for December 2010
Not Utopia, but Definitely Spectacular
In response to my “Grumpy Ed” post (earlier this month), I received a response from a reader who gently took me to task for my half-empty view of life generally and of the United States in particular. I replied to him that I would love to have a pair of his rose-colored glasses. The reader […]
The Truth about the Tax Debate
With another weak showing by the administration leading to the compromise reached earlier this week, the debate on the Bush tax cuts has been resolved for the present, but only for another two years. And so, with an eye to the renewal of the battle in 2012 (right in the middle of the […]
On Being Less Grumpy at the Holidays
“Some men see things as they are and ask why; I see things as they could be and ask why not” -George Bernard Shaw (later paraphrased by Robert F. Kennedy) At work, I’m called Grumpy Ed. It’s somewhat of an affectionate moniker, or at least I assume it is, since most people who […]