About this blog
Mike Argento, a York native and graduate of York Suburban Area High School and Penn State, first came to the York Daily Record in 1983. He even had gray hair back then. After stints covering everything from cops to city hall to state government to the environment, he began writing a column for the paper, three times a week, in 1989. His column can be about anything and so is his blog, which encompasses life in York County and beyond. And, for the record, as he told his wife the other night, he wishes people would stop asking him, 'What's wrong with you?' He really doesn't know.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
We’re turning Japanese
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel-prize-winning economist, is at his best when he’s explaining macro-economics. In today’s column, he fires a warning shot about our economy. An excerpt: “But the truth is that policy makers aren’t doing too … Continue reading
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Yeah, makes perfect sense
The Onion does it again. This http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-government-doesnt-trust-citizen,17459/, headlined “Report: Majority Of Government Doesn’t Trust Citizens Either,” is a hysterical send-up of our current political dilemma. An excerpt: “All the vitriol and partisan bickering in Congress has caused most Americans to … Continue reading
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Story of the day
This story has the makings of a pretty good country song. Drunk guy rips through a farm field and then is hauled to the police cruiser in the front-end bucket of a farm tractor. Sounds like something Hank Williams III … Continue reading
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Lots of bluster
U.S. Rep. Todd Platts easily turned away a challenge from the right — although to be fair there’s not a heck of a lot of room to the right of Todd — dispatching Mike Smelzter with ease. For all of … Continue reading
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So, that’s how it ends…
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter was laid off by voters yesterday. For a lot of people, Democrats and Republicans alike, Arlen was always a little too slippery, maneuvering through political minefields with his survival in mind. Well, he finally stepped on … Continue reading
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Sharks like oil
Not the kind who swim i the ocean, the ones with juris doctorates. The Washington Post reported that lawyers are lining up to sue the bejesus out of BP for the oil spill in the gulf. An excerpt: “The law … Continue reading
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Texas, again
The dumbing down of American continues unabated in the great state of Texas, where the state school board is gutting U.S. history to match its own weird views. It could be an isolated incident, but it’s not. What happens in … Continue reading
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New David Simon, sort of
As a fan of the work of writer-producer David Simon, this Onion piece cracked me up. “The Wire,” is goes without saying as everybody has said it, was a masterpiece. “Treme,” chronicling post-Katrina New Orleans, has been fantastic. And now, … Continue reading
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We’re not Greece
The latest conventional wisdom is that the United States will go the way of Greece because of government spending. Not true. And here’s why.
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All those people complaining about high taxes?
Should read this. The non-partisan Tax Foundation concludes that current taxes — all taxes, from income taxes to property taxes to sales taxes — are at the lowest level since 1959. Food for thought.
