August 2006 Archives

By MIKE
ARGENTO


Aug 28, 2006 — It started out as one of those stories that gets your bile up - the family of a late Korean War veteran falls behind on the payments on his burial and is greeted at the gravesite by a scar of brown earth where, before, had been the plaque marking his final resting place.

But it quickly became more complicated than that, like much of life, and it turned out to be a story of a different sort.

But I'm getting ahead of myself... .

Dear President Bush,

Can I call you Dubya? I guess I can, knowing your fondness for nicknames.

Thanks for stopping by the other day. Really. It might not seem that way — a lot of Harley workers were torqued that your visit resulted in them being held hostage for 40 minutes after their shifts ended — but I’m sure there were some people who weren’t so put off.

By MIKE
ARGENTO

When a lot of us think about our state’s junior senator, the image that comes to mind is an alternative meaning to his name that cannot be described here.

Let’s just leave it at that.

That alternate meaning of “santorum,� though, may have to be changed, considering some recent revelations about our esteemed senator and the expenses of his political action committee, called America’s Foundation, and some other nifty little fiscal dealings our boy has been involved in.

We now take you to the office of Mel Gibson’s agent ...