Wife Like Me

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is Colin.  When I was in the Search & Rescue, I saw things staged for the news.  I saw TV reporters bring in their own people in militaristic uniforms in order to add tension to the visual.  I […]

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This is Colin.  Bethany and I have spent the last two hours watching John McWhorter on CSPAN.  He’s an elitist New York liberal, straight out of Berkeley, but a moderate one–and more than anything I like moderates, people who can speak intelligently and without passion.  So the liberal political machine hates him like they hate Joe […]

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Yesterday Colin got home a little earlier than ususal so that I could go vote before the crowds started up at the polls.  Then he sent me to the polls alone while he watched the kids!  I don’t know how long it had been since I’d been anywhere totally alone, but it was the weirdest […]

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Super Tuesday is over and interest in the primaries isn’t!  Wow, I think it’s fascinating.  The candidates and their campaign teams probably don’t feel this way, but as a voter and a spectator I think it’s all pretty entertaining and exciting.  I won’t say here who I voted for, but I’ll bet you already guessed […]

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To those of you in the 26 Super Tuesday states who can vote today–I say, GO VOTE!  Read up on the candidates (one summary chart of their positions on “dealbreaker” issues is here), pick the one you want to vote for, find out where to vote (you can Google it), and then go put your ballot […]

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I was thinking today about income and how to determine pay scales.  I think about this occasionally because Colin is a teacher and often feels pressured to join a union, but doesn't want to for various reasons including that unions generate increasing need for unions without necessarily increasing benefit to union members or businesses.  Anyway, as […]

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Last night I saw about a half an hour of Charlie Rose interviewing Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate from Arkansas.  Although I didn't agree with everything he said, I was impressed with how well he handled the questions Charlie Rose threw at him.  He was generally very calm and prepared and expressed himself smoothly with […]

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the "Little Rock Nine" incident at Central High School.  The Little Rock Nine was mentioned in my history classes in high school, but only briefly, and I'd probably heard of it on NPR before, and I seem to remember seeing a movie that referred to the situation.  So it […]

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This is Colin again.  I know, two posts in a row…  I just have to say how much Bethany and I love CSPAN.  It is the only place you can get uncensored information on most stories.  If I want news on the Jena Six or Blackwater, my options range from Rush Limbaugh to Al Sharpton, […]

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BYU's David M. Kennedy Center (where my International Studies major was housed) puts out a neat magazine called Bridges.  The current issue is focused on culture, with articles on everthing from culture shock to the cultural side of human traficking.  The article I was most interested in is by Jan R. Van Orman, BYU's assistant […]

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