Have an Opinion: Who’s Up for Some Shared Sacrifice?

So, here is something you might want to consider the next time someone tells you about how times are tight, and there’s a need for “shared sacrifice”, and we need to get rid of “entitlements” like Medicare, unemployment extensions, and Social Security hikes.  It’s something you might want to remember …

The Sandwich Century – #6: The Bologna Sandwich

Note:  due to some ingredient acquisition issues, the Sandwich Century project is going to go off-book as far as alphabetic order for a week or so.  We’ll try and set things right by the next entry. There are certain things that come to possess an iconic status not because of …

Where Comedy Goes to Die: WIN-tervention!

In the interests of fairness, and to placate those who felt yesterday’s column was a bit unfair, today we’re going to discuss America’s favorite hobby:  dropping bombs on Middle Eastern countries.  While it’s sometimes proven slightly controversial — although not so controversial that pretty much every post-war president hasn’t done …

The Sandwich Century: #5 – The Bánh Mì Sandwich

It was bound to happen:  the Sandwich Century project has run head-on into the grim reality of living in San Antonio.  Oh, sure, we’re a 21st-century burg, and we have our share of Asians contending for their share of the Frito pie while Germans and Mexicans fight it out for …

Have An Opinion: The Great Upper-Class Swindle

It is a sign of the confidence — indeed, the audaciousness — of the current conservative movement that they are making real headway in an attempt to strangle the union movement, already gravely wounded, once and for all.  It was Reagan who dealt the unions their first critical blow beginning …