Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

Yesterday's Open Letter to Congress certainly got a lot of attention ... from you, Dear Readers, not from Congress. Raquel linked to i...

Yesterday I talked about religious texts and how they contribute to our lack of respect and tolerance for one another. Today, let's tal...

Driven to distraction by perversions of the legal system? Astounded by how fast the lawsuits proliferate in the wake of any accident or ter...

We're all angry about the government bailout of the financial industry. Well, all of us except the banks, of course. Your savings may ...

Our local Metro transit system has taken its lumps this year, with several serious accidents (including the terrible train crash earlier thi...

There are so many serious things I need to write about that I sometimes just have to step back and reset my internal system with something o...

This past Monday evening our local Metro rail system suffered the worst crash in its history when a train running on the Red Line north of ...

Most of you are well aware of my feelings about air travel. For those of you who aren't, here's a quick summary: 1. Customer servi...

Before I start on this morning's post, I should note that the counter on my Blogspot home page tells me that yesterday was my 974th post...

Most of my readers look forward to Cartoon Saturday for a bit of a lift from the relentless bad news of the rest of the week, and that's...

As a blogger, I'm delighted that we have the sort of bloviating lunatics in Congress that we do, because it means I'll never run out...

Mike is on a roll this morning with his rant on Unregulated Capitalism and Other Stuff . He's starting to sound like me. I must have b...

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday: in order to maximize the number of comments left in response to a post, I should write about either b...

Can you imagine? As soon as the governments of the major economic powers got together and gave their banks almost two trillion dollars as ...

As many old jokes begin, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that Green Canary's dating situation appears ...

I've been fulminating about the current economic disaster and the lack of Presidential and Congressional leadership to deal with it for ...

Here is the link to the Bloomberg.com article referenced in my earlier post this morning. Now you can read the whole thing and not just my...

One of the most amazing things about our current situation is the utter unwillingness of anyone in a position of political, business, or eco...

My new retirement plan is very simple. My 401k and IRA are in the toilet, and I'm too small for the Feds to worry about bailing out, so...

There are still several posts coming in the series documenting my Reformed Republicratic Party Platform, but I'm getting down to the har...