The Barbaric YawpA post-modern attempt to emulate Walt Whitman(Untitled)- August 17, 2004 Celebration of Light, Part IIIhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/17.html#a436 (Untitled)- August 16, 2004 Garlic fries and Ichirolls Reiko and I made our annual pilgrimage to Safeco Field yesterday. We&146;ve been doing it since Reiko became a besuboru fan several years ago with the advent of Japanese players in the US leagues. Now, I&146;ve been going to Mariners games for 27 years and they almost invariably lost. Since Reiko has joined me, we have yet to see them boot one. The Mariners, according to this logic, should give us free season tickets, thereby assuring...http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/16.html#a435 (Untitled)- August 16, 2004 Dubya is full of it and so is the latest Virtual Occoquan. I'm talking about corn. What were you thinking Click on the link to the left and enjoy the best of the blogs.http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/16.html#a434 (Untitled)- August 14, 2004 Friend of small business Those of you who might be harboring any delusions as to how friendly our current president is to small business should take a lesson from his visit to Seattle yesterday. Bushieboy paid a visit to the home of a wealthy supporter for a $5,000 a plate fundraising dinner. Citing security precautions, the Secret Service banned all flights in and out of Lake Union and Lake Washington. Fine. But Kenmore Air is the primary connection from Seattle to the San...http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/14.html#a433 (Untitled)- August 14, 2004 Celebration of Light, Part IIhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/13.html#a432 (Untitled)- August 12, 2004 Celebration of light, Part I Each year, the City of Vancouver, BC, hosts a spectacular fireworks contest. It used to be called Symphony of Fire and was sponsored by a tobacco company. That is obviously not politically correct in this postmodern age and the ever-polite Canadians accepted this with good grace. It is now called Celebration of Light and is sponsored by a bank. Having done business in Canada, I have to question whether that nation's banks are any less odious that...http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/11.html#a431 (Untitled)- August 9, 2004 Sic semper tyrannis &147;Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.&148; - Blaise Pascal Somehow, I doubt that Pascal had major league baseball umpires in mind when he wrote that line. That&146;s a shame. Baseball umpires, somewhere along the line, have stepped across the line that separates impartial judges from arbitrary dictators who hold the entire game in thrall. Umpiring has always been a source of...http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/09.html#a430 (Untitled)- August 6, 2004 Into the belly of the beast In my capacity as editor of a business magazine, I often find myself in surroundings that make me rather uncomfortable. Such was the case today when I covered the inauguration of the new clean fuel unit at the BP Cherry Point Refinery. Don't get me wrong. I am all in favor of clean fuel. BP, in fact, is far more progressive than most refiners. They not only built a facility to meet EPA standards, they exceeded those standards far in advance of.http://blogs.salon.com/0001811/2004/08/05.html#a429 |