Election Follies – Madness 2018 Edition
With mailboxes full of campaign drivel, the airwaves sopped with bilious ads and an electorate either ambivalent or outraged – Election 2018 is less than one month from ringing in Campaign 2020. Yes, election cycles run one into the next with the monotonous droning barely pausing. While the main event is two years off, this.. read more →
Two Kinds of People – One Digs the Ditch, the Other…
The standard joke posits that there are two kinds of people – those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don’t. In today’s politically charged environment almost any issue will have two kinds of people – two willful camps squaring off… Liberal / Conservative Climate change panicked / climate change ambivalent.. read more →
Energy and the Administration: Wins – Yes, Style Points – Nope
How does the PolicySmith address, and civilly discuss, the Trump Administration and its substantial advancement of energy production and advocacy? Hmmm. There are the never-Trumpers who stop reading right here, the Trumpsters who can’t get enough of the in-your-face Presidential style – and – those struggling to square problematic behavior with the very real accomplishments.. read more →
A Word – Actually Quite a Few – About Curmudgeons
Warning! Salty language and ribald observations straight ahead… The recent exercise in plumbing the depths of the popular press’s love affair with environmentalists, college snowflakes and the bands of assorted ne’er-do-wells populating the public consciousness causes the curmudgeon in the PolicySmith to surface with an emphatic Harumph! The press’s love affair is not nearly as.. read more →