Mitt Romney Breaks World Record for Shortest Political Contradiction

...we must oppose discrimination and defend traditional marriage: one man, one woman...

-- Mitt Romney, in a recent Iowa radio spot

What a twit.

It Ain't Me

A friend of mine asked me if this man was any relation. His name is the same as mine, and he lives in the Phoenix area, where I grew up. No relation that I know of.

[Oh, all the old pics are missing. In this case, perhaps it's for the better.]

Such a tragic accident. I feel for the family of those who perished. I also can't help but feel quite a bit of compassion for this man, whose face has been plastered on the nightly news for making a mistake. A serious, grievous mistake, but does his arrest require world distribution? Do all mugshots now appear on the 10 o'clock news?

Yes, I see the irony of posting his picture on my blog. But no one reads my blog.

The accident that similarly took my sister almost 35 years ago barely made mention in the Arizona Republic. Even then, I doubt it made the news. Or maybe we didn't read the paper or watch the news for months after that. (Wow, people didn't even have 300 baud dial-up yet, did they?)

Hmmm. That reminds me of another post I've needed to write for a long time...