I was watching State Circle with Jeff Salkin on PBS last Thursday night (yes, conservatives do watch PBS... hey, we pay for it, too.) and I had to listen to Senate President Thomas "Mike" "Man Perm" Miller talk. 

Rarely in state politics do you hear one man speak so many so words, but say so little with so little meaning.

This math teacher has a brand new motivational technique for folks who fail exams:

Click here.

Maybe we should do them same with requests for fundraising from candidates!

Now that the slots hurdle has been half-cleared through the fourth-quarter punt by the General Assembly, it was only a matter of time before the "casino" wardrums started beating.

And they are banging like drum corps, according to O'Malley Gazette.

John Paterakis must be pleased.  He'll finally be able to use that Marriott for what he wanted all along.

There was an amazing article in The Baltimore Sun yesterday. I am not sure the editors even understood what they were writing.  They certainly could not have intended for it to read the way I read it.

"Addressing The Divide"

One of O'Guvnah's favorite tools to spur "economic development" when he was Mayor of Baltimore was the use of tax abatements and property tax breaks to prompt corporations to keep their headquarters (or at least major operations) in the City of Baltimore.

I was a long time Comcast TV customer -- 10 years -- until last Wednesday, when I finally made the switch and had DirecTV installed at my house.

To sum up my experience:  Holy Crap! Why didn't I do this years ago?

In all the cultural battles with Islamic extremism, todays modern feminists are nowhere to be found.  Why is that? 

I find it appalling that these so-called "pro-woman" organizations and leaders cannot find the courage to attack a culture that promotes that notion that women are property and practices the culture of "honor killings".

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her campaign for President, has announced that she loves to reenact moments in military history.

Most importantly:  April 29-May 1, 1975.

In Part II of Starve The Beast, I want to focus on "interacting with government".  But not in a normal take.