Maggie's Farm

Geoff Brown ... As a believer in the power of semantics, let me point out that those folks who are ready and willing to "drop the hyphens" as you suggest, are signalling that they have fully assimilated into our American culture. Since we are presently being held hostage by Liberal 'identity politics' I don't think a time will soon come when we are willing as a nation to drop former identity designations, as we used to do in the relatively halcyon days of my youth. In those days, we became *American*.

Instead we get ever more verbally tortured designations as African-American, Native American [if we are citizens and were born here in the U.S., we are all native Americans, whether we have American Indian blood or not] Irish American, not to mention such linguistic abortions as Puerto Rican American, Haitian American, Balinese American,Tora-Bora American, Hottentot American, and on and on.

Give it a rest, Liberals. You look even more ridiculous than you think you are.

Marianne

Apropos of nothing but my electricity bill, I predict that the popularity of all-electric cars will take a precipitous dive after the new owners get their first post-plug-in electric bills. That's going to smart.

As usual, the Gang in the White House hasn't really thought this through. If you do what the Bloviator promised during his incessant and unending campaign, and bankrupt the coal mines [more than 50% of our current electrical power is generated by coal] and then jigger the rules so that gasoline tops $6.00 a gallon, then plugging in the new electric car every night to recharge is going to give you a myocardial infarct when you receive your electric bill at the end of the month.

Try getting that heart attack treated efficiently under Obamacare. Do you wonder why Americans are cranky?

Marianne