Throw-Away Days

There are no throw-away days. Make the best of this one. Live as if it's the only one you have.

Start Counting

If you had a terminal condition, you would count each day as precious and irreplaceable. You do, so start counting.

In God We Must Trust

It's harder to trust God when things aren't going well. But we still gotta do it!

Career Advice

Don't quit your current job until you have a new one in hand.

Smooth-Talking Kook

Iran's President Ahmadinejad-who denies the Holocaust and Israel's right to exist-has received an invitation to speak at Columbia University. Columbia officials say it is a "free speech" issue. Lovely. I wonder when an Iranian university will reciprocate with George W. Bush? Oh, yes-they don't have free speech-at least not much of it-in Iran. Thousands are languishing in political prisons in Iran right now because they dared to speak out against Ahmadinejad's corrupt regime.

If Ahmadinejad were a U.S. citizen, the kindest thing we could say about him is that he's a smooth-talking kook, on the level of David Duke. But since he is the titular head of Iran and seemingly hell-bent on pursuing nuclear weapons, we give him a gold-lettered, embossed invitation to speak in one of our most prestigious universities. Haven't we learned anything about appeasing dictators?

Jena

It sounds as if the charges of attempted murder were indeed overly severe in Jena. But is the once-proud Civil Rights movement reduced to defending thugs? In the old days, there were real grievances, such as not being able to sit at a lunch counter or being ordered to the back of the bus. But I'm having a hard time working up sympathy for six toughs who beat up a white guy-or for the people defending them.

Too Dumb

Concerning the Jena controversy, Jesse Jackson says Barack Obama is "acting too white." Wow. Can you imagine a white opinion leader accusing a white politician of "acting too black"? If not, why do we allow Jackson to get away with it?

Old Strong

Never confuse old strong with young strong. They may look the same, but they aren't.

Censorship?

Sally Field is complaining because the network that broadcast the Emmys (not the government) pulled the plug on her anti-war rant during her acceptance speech. Field calls it censorship. I call it a wise decision about an event that is supposed to be about entertainment.

Barry Manilow, meanwhile, is boycotting "The View" because he (a homosexual) refuses to be interviewed by Elisabeth Hasselbeck (a Christian), calling her "dangerous to America."

I wonder what Field would call that?

Bad Company

A company that cannot or will not promote from within is a company without long-term prospects.

Unsinkable ...

The latest polls indicate the Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency is unsinkable. Like the Titanic steaming toward the iceberg.

Angry E-mail

Never send an e-mail in anger.

Commercials I'd Like to See

For Viagra or Cialis: "Be sure to ask your undertaker if you're healthy enough for sexual activity."

9/11 Reminder

Even before Gen. Petraeus provided his Iraq assessment yesterday, prominent Democrats were attacking his character. Remember when politics used to stop at the water's edge? Today, above all others, let's remember that.

Rules for Living

No. 136: Before you honk at someone on the way to work, make sure he isn't your boss.

Ready for Some Football

Last night the pumped-up pregame show went on forever; the National Anthem was grossly overdone by a "celebrity" wearing a cheap blond wig; Keith Olbermann produced a halftime commentary even more embarrassing than his recent one defending Michael Vick; and we had to sit through even more stupid commericials from the overexposed Peyton Manning.

But who cares? The NFL is back, and I'm ready for some football.

Oprah Knows Best

Oprah Winfrey loves to tell people what to do, be, and think, and many folks are just dying to get her marching orders. While Winfrey has used her fame and fortune for a lot of good causes, she is far from infallible. Now she has gone to the trouble of telling us who she thinks would be the best president. Anyone who votes for political greenhorn Barack Obama based on Oprah's endorsement needs to stop watching TV talkfests and get a life. And they said Christians are poor, uneducated, and easy to command.

Stalling

Now Larry Craig is saying he might stay and fight his own guilty plea in connection with a sex sting operation in a Minneapolis airport bathroom stall. This again proves the point: Politicians are always the last to realize when it is over.

Parking Space

This weekend I came across a parking space for the handicapped with a 30-minute time limit. I hate to break it to the geniuses who came up with this, but those who legally park there will still be disabled, barring divine healing, a half-hour later.