Drifting
thoughts
Thomas Sowell
April 2,
2005 |
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It is hard to write a good column
even one time a week, but I am giving it my full effort. While I am working on the good
one, here are a few random pieces from my notebook:
As the boys of summer warm up, I
ask myself why Washington should even have a baseball team, and why should
they be called the Nationals? Will this not be tremendously confusing, given
that we have a National league at present? Or should we expect federal
judges to inappropriately try to step in and call it something else
entirely?
Why do some people use a fancy
term like "strict constitutionalist" when all that they really mean is judge
that will respect constitutional boundaries?
What can I say about this elixir?
Sometimes I think that Texas is a troubled
state. When I look at the news and see that both
Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have had peaceful contact with
Hillary Rodham Clinton, I say to myself 'Oh my'.
Brain Teaser: What I said earlier
about pieces taken from my notebook should not be taken as the literal
truth. And yet, it is in no way a lie. Give up? I have a notebook computer
and keep my thoughts in a Word document.
This is surely the golden age that
we have all been dreaming of. We have strong control of the House and
Senate, our president is a bold and principled man who is leading the
country back to it's true roots, and the Frisco Thickburger is a reality. On
the home front things are looking good as well. I myself am bringing in
mid-six-figures. Nothing wrong with that.
I am getting sick and tired of these
activist judges. I wonder what the penalty is for saying something really
rude to one.
Michael Jackson likes to compare himself
with persecuted black luminaries such as Nelson Mandela.
Someone should tell him to stop this
practice, as it is starting to make him look ridiculous.
My intellectual specialty may be in the
field of economics, but that does not mean that I am a slouch in the
kitchen. This morning I whipped up some blueberry pancakes that were
mouthwatering good. Even Mrs. Sowell asked for seconds, and she is currently
watching her figure.
You know the Democrats are really desperate
when they start picking on the House Majority Leader in a personally
destructive manner. I have had the honor of knowing Mister Delay for many
years, and know him as a good and honorable man. Last spring I had a
silverfish infestation, and he cleared them all out in no time.
Many writers are enamored with the apostrophe, sprinkling it liberally
throughout there work. I tend to shun it, viewing it as a symbol of
intellectual laziness. Is it really all that hard to spell out do not? It
really is almost the identical number of key strokes, if you disregard the
space bar.
A reader wrote that Terri Schiavo's biggest mistake was that she did not
kill anyone. I thought about that for a while. Then I responded with a
thoughtful email.
Can someone give me a satisfactory
answer as to why we continue with the charade that is Daylight Savings Time?
No time is saved. That would be contrary to the norms of modern physics. Or
is time part of physics? My intellectual
specialty is in the field of economics.
I find it sad that our secular society is
allowing and even encouraging young women to wear pants to the workplace,
and indeed, in almost every walk of life.
People on the political left must
surely be taken aback when they look upon the scandalous spectacle that is
Sandy Berger. What to make of a man who would steel secret documents from
the National Archives and then cut them into small pieces with scissors. Has
he never heard of a shredder? |
