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Archive for May, 2007

Should the government be responsible?

Posted in Gambling, Social issues, Uncategorized on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Pennsylvania state gaming control board sent out a notice last week bragging that “since the introduction of the Self-Exclusion Program late last year, 52 self-described problem gamblers have voluntarily requested” that licensed gambling facilities refuse to take their money.
Once a person is on the list, gaming hall operators also may not cash that person’s [...]

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An award for democracy

Posted in Social issues, Uncategorized on May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Tuesday I, along with several thousand fellow Adams Countians, made marks on paper indicating those people from whom we would like to hear more about why they should be placed at the head tables of our towns and county, and whether we thought a tax scheme being proposed was a good idea or not.
Tonight, I [...]

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Preserve neighborliness

Posted in Pets, Social issues, Technology on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I love technology. My first cell phone was an office-sized contraption that fit in a bag resting on the passenger seat — in the passenger’s lap if I was trying to qualify for the HOV lane — which was about three hours drive from where I lived and worked.
Cell phones were something of a novelty. [...]

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Busting myths about “illegals”

Posted in Agriculture, Farming, History, Social issues, immigration on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

“Illegal aliens,” by which most of us mean Mexicans, have been taking a lot of blame lately. They are, we are told, diluting our culture, taking our jobs, and demanding free medical care, free education and flaunting our laws.
I respectfully disagree.
If King John of Portugal, in the 1480s, had seen the wisdom of discovering the [...]

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