Recent Comments

1. about 7 hours ago on Doonesbury

   My penmanship comes in handy for writing checks.

   When I had a secretary (typist), I wrote in longhand and had it typed by someone else.

2. about 8 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   The President can’t tell the courts how to decide cases or tell Congress what laws to pass. Those two branches can’t tell the President how to exercise the Executive power.

3. about 8 hours ago on Doonesbury

   “Penmanship was once useful. Now less so.”

   True. My sons can’t write cursive, but they can type a lot faster than I can.

4. about 8 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   The military is just one part of the executive branch. The civil service is another part. The President is the highest authority of all the executive parts.

5. about 8 hours ago on Doonesbury

   The problem with not voting for the lesser evil often means that the greater evil gets elected.

6. about 8 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   “Nothing about following presidential orders, right?”

   I did what my superiors told me to do. I’m made to understand that the chain of command had the President at the top.

7. about 8 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   If “civil service employees” don’t do what they are told by their superiors, they can be fired.

8. about 8 hours ago on Doonesbury

   There is a continuum between Libertarian and Totalitarian.

   The Republicans get closer to the Libertarian side, and the Democrats get closer to the Totalitarian side.

9. about 8 hours ago on Mike du Jour

   “Your ignorance of the civil service system is showing.”

   I was once a GS-2 File Clerk for the DoD.

10. about 9 hours ago on Doonesbury

    In Catholic school, we didn’t have “Social Studies.” We had different subjects called “History” and “Geography.” We also didn’t have “Language.” We had “Reading,” “English,” and “Penmanship.”