The WaPo isn't our favorite paper......

[KaosDad]

But sometimes one of their columnists gets it.....

Don't Touch My Junk!

[allingeneral]

Man, I love Charles Krauthammer! He just has such an eloquent way of putting his thoughts together. That's an excellently written piece, in my opinion. Thank you Charles!

[VBshooter]

He has the gift for sure

[zephyp]

Well, sorry to say thats one phrase I regrettably wont get to use cause I wont fly!!!

And, I aint gonna go for it just so I can say it...maybe I can use that on Young... Well, maybe not...

[VBshooter]

When they go for your giblets just say "A Little to the left and slower"

[ainokea]

Any guesses on what would happen if I printed this on a t-shirt to wear when I next fly?

[Jim]

How 'bout if you look down at the guy, wink and blow him a kiss?

[KaosDad]

ainokea - you better set up your Cafe Press shop really fast!!!

[zephyp]

Any guesses on what would happen if I printed this on a t-shirt to wear when I next fly?

I'd also like a t-shirt and a couple of bumper stickers please...

[KaosDad]

Two more who get it.....

George F. Will

Kathleen Parker

[zephyp]

Title of this thread: The WaPo isn't our favorite paper......

Observation: No posts about any other news paper and many about this one...

Question: How would you treat your most favored paper...

[gunderwood]

Two more who get it.....

George F. Will

Kathleen Parker

I like the first one. The author got it right:

The theory - perhaps by now it seems like a quaint anachronism - on which the nation was founded is, or was: Government is instituted to protect preexisting natural rights essential to the pursuit of happiness.

The governments securing of our rights extends only to the point in which they have done so in their natural state. I.e. government can not and should not secure them beyond their natural state and whenever it attempts to do so, it inherently violates the very rights it is suppose to protect.

This is spot on too:

But enough, already. Enough trivializing important values - e.g., air safety - by monomaniacal attempts to maximize them. Disproportion is the common denominator of almost all of life's absurdities. Automobile safety is important. But attempting to maximize it would begin (but by no means end) with forbidding left turns.

Bureaucracies try to maximize their missions. They can't help themselves. Adult supervision is required to stand athwart this tendency, yelling "Stop!"

Again, Buckley: "Every year, whether the Republican or the Democratic Party is in office, more and more power drains away from the individual to feed vast reservoirs in far-off places; and we have less and less say about the shape of events which shape our future."

Life, in of itself, is full of risk. There is no such thing as "safety" since there is no way to reduce the risk of anything to zero and still be alive.

[KaosDad]

Title of this thread: The WaPo isn't our favorite paper......

Observation: No posts about any other news paper and many about this one...

Question: How would you treat your most favored paper...

The problem is that the WaPo is (really) the only game in town. The star is barely more than a rag (maybe Moon can rescue it), the NY Post is expensive to get and really no better. What are we left with in the NOVA area? The WSJ is a good *national* paper, but not so good at the local stuff. And Courtland Malloy is amusing.

But, seriously, if there is a viable alternative I'd love to give it alook!

[zephyp]

The Washington Times is a little more right leaning...and pay for the NY Times? I'd rather beat myself with a muddy stick.