Latest Blog Posts for Martin's Musings

• Yakety Yak
  on Jul 25, 2010 in Randon
  … don’t talk back. This blog has been idle for a while now. I’ve decided to drop my ball and go home. Actually, I’ve decided to try something new and have started a brand new blog – SlapstickAnalysis.com. For those that...
• Gulf Oil Spill Numbness
  on Jun 13, 2010 in Randon
  I don’t mean to come across as ignorant, but while I do understand just how devastating the oil spill in the Gulf is, I for one am getting tired of the story all together. The problem is, the daily tidbits concerning the oil spill are hardly an...
• Wal-Mart Hate
  on May 11, 2010 in Current Events & Politics
  Talk radio host Jerry Agar for the Illinois Policy Institute asking who is more likely to help people – the unions or Wal-Mart? This in response to the union fight to keep a second Wal-Mart store from opening in Chicago. As a former union emplo...
• Senseless Brutality
  on May 11, 2010 in Current Events & Politics Rants
  I can’t possibly comprehend what could possibly motivate people to go into a home and harass the people inside. In the case of the Seattle area’s “Craiglist murder,” four people responding to a item on Craigslist went into the...
• Traffic Build Ups
  on May 5, 2010 in Just for Fun
  While stuck in stop and go traffic on I-55 last week as I was heading to the city, I asked myself what exactly causes traffic? I understand that traffic is much like a domino effect, but why does it have to happen when there are no accidents or obvio...
• Coffee with Cream
  on Apr 13, 2010 in Marketing & Promotions
  A consultant I often confer with on the job once told me that he does not drink coffee with cream or sugar – the second any of that stuff is added, it is no longer coffee, he said. Wise words, believe it or not, spoken to me in January of 2009.
• Better Than Nothing?
  on Apr 1, 2010 in Randon
  Conservatives and libertarians (most, at least) are rightfully angry about the passage of President Obama’s and the Democratic Congress’s health care reform bill. While I do agree that the existing situation concerning soaring health care...
• Radical Hate and Intolerance
  on Mar 31, 2010 in Culture and Society
  The Westboro Baptist Church has repeatedly been in the news within the last couple of years for their various protest at the funerals of fallen Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. They are in the news again as a result of an unfair situation involving a d...
• An Inconvenient Distraction
  on Mar 12, 2010 in Current Events & Politics
  The situation surrounding the Jackson, MI school that canceled its prom this year because of a lesbian student wanting to bring her girlfriend has stirred much debate around the country. John Williams on WGN-AM in Chicago today wrapped the whole issu...
• Happy Days
  on Mar 4, 2010 in Sports
  Most baseball fans can’t wait until spring training games begin. Today was the day for both of Chicago’s baseball teams. Now that the spring games have begun, us same fans can’t wait for them to end so that the real games can begin.

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