The Idiots Are Coming! The Idiots Are Coming!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Forgive me Dear Reader, it has been 5 months since my last confession post. A lot has happened since AnyIdiot went dark: My marriage nearly collapsed from neglect, partly because a PIG lives in my head, and partly because I was putting so much time into this blog and posting at ...

A nail in the heart of Governor Sanford’s fiscal frigidity

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

There's no way I could improve on Jennifer Read's evisceration of Governor Mark Sanford's posturing against Federal assistance to keep South Carolina's unemployment benefits flowing. Here's a little viscera from Read's Indigo Journal post: Our esteemed Governor made national headlines today over his latest foot-stomping tantrum. While thousands of ...

SC Healthcare - Selling Smokes to Cure Lung Cancer

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

There's something logically and morally wrong with using a cigarette tax to offset income tax or even to fund an on-going healthcare program. Just stop and think about it for a minute. Raising South Carolina's cigarette tax might be one way to discourage a stinky, dangerous, and costly addiction, and, in ...

Governor Sanford: “Let them eat Twinkies!”

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

In my 7 minutes of spare time a day, I've been toiling over a fact- and link-filled post addressing Governor Sanford's "DON'T show me the money" media circus. Sanford is clearly willing to make the most vulnerable South Carolinians suffer to stroke his libertarian ego. I believe in fiscal restraint ...