My Sick Mind

Mike Fitzpatrick is going to fight against crime ... Tom Corbett is going to look after our senior citizens and ensure that the lottery money is used properly ... Patrick Murphy served in Iraq, fights for jobs and values hard work ... Pat Toomey asked for special treatment for China and wants to send American jobs overseas and is "not for us." ... Congressman Fitzpatrick lobbied Harrisburg for property tax increases ... Jon Runyan wants a tax cut for millionaires ... Adler voted against $1.1 trillion in spending and supports Social Security ... Millionaire Runyan keeps donkeys on his property , lives in a mansion and calls it a farm to get property tax breaks ... Pat Meehan puts our families at risk by allowing assault rifles on the streets ... Bryan Lentz wants the tax cuts to go to middle class families and wants to cut the deficit and balance the budget ... Only one movie in America has over 100 4-star reviews ... Career politician John Adler has "wrecked the econo...

It's election season. Specifically, it's something they call "mid-term elections," which must be insulting to the people whose terms are coming to an end - or just beginning - in a couple of weeks. The ads and attacks are running fast and furious, and my mailbox has been loaded with stuff from the local candidates who think they can save the world one township at a time. I hate to tell them the truth, especially since they probably wouldn't recognize it. What they rely on most is our short memory and the idea that we like whatever is not happening now. The latest thing is the old cry of "less government and lower taxes," two ideas that would seem to go together unless your memory is long enough to remember the elections of the late 1980s when the idea was the same. Since then, we have endured more government and higher taxes, which clearly indicates that politics have failed us. Surprised? Since Barack Obama was elected a couple of years ago, we hav...

My buddy Thor just went in for his yearly physical exam, and it turns out he has gingivitis. I wanted a second opinion, and the vet said, "OK, he's fat, too." A year ago, when I brought him home from the shelter, he weighed 14 pounds. I thought he was big then. Now, he tips the scales at 19 pounds 13 ounces. That's a good meal away from 20 pounds. It's time for him to go on a diet. I'm switching him from regular cat food to "indoor" food, which is cat food terminology for "lite." That, plus a little reduction in quantity should get him down from fat ass to big cat. The gingivitis is the bigger issue. He can't eat if he doesn't have any teeth, and having bad gums could mean he'll start losing his teeth. But I'm not sure whether the treatment is worse than the disease. For me, anyway. Veterinarians exist in a different world than the rest of us. They want us to give animals pills and other things that animals don...