UberThoughts USA

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Whose Offense Is In Front of the Line?

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On Monday, the Baltimore Orioles played the first game of a four game series at Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox.  There were a n...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Not Loving the Budget Process

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About three years back I wrote a piece here (no, I have not memorized all 650 of them, but I know what I thought) about the absurdity of th...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

NoKo Go/No-Go

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That pesky little snot running the "Democratic People's Republic of North Korea", an ironic name if ever there was one, appare...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Was It Campus Extortion in 1970?

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Names will be changed to protect the guilty in this one, but it's not because I don't remember them, but because there is no point i...
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Friday, April 28, 2017

The Press Destroying Good News

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I hope you were able to see the press conference held on Wednesday to introduce President Trump's new tax reform proposal as worked thro...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Hey, At Least She Raises Money

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Why is Nancy Pelosi still the minority leader in the House of Representatives?  Despite a challenge from a much younger Ohio representativ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

This is Not Bigotry

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I can probably write with assurance, that over 90% of those who read this -- and we have now passed 50,000 reads on this site, by the way --...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Reluctantly Defending Facebook

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The killer is dead. Lest we forget too quickly, a man from Cleveland is dead, and his family heartbroken, because a nut case broke up with...
Monday, April 24, 2017

The Silliness of the Blackout

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Now, I don't live in Las Vegas, and I'm quite glad that I don't.  For one, it's going through some economic ups and downs, a...
Friday, April 21, 2017

On a Book I Haven't Read -- Yet

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Yesterday morning, I was made aware of a book released, or to be released, this month.  It is called "Shattered", and I have no id...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Why We Need the Supreme Court

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I don't think anyone doubts the need for the third branch of the Federal government, i.e., the judicial branch.  Apart from the need to ...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Mad Dog and Me

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Actually, this is not about me at all, but "me" was alliterative and made for a reasonable title for a piece like this. Back aft...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Taxes Redux Redux Redux

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I had to laugh yesterday morning. My older son Eric was visiting over the weekend with his girlfriend, so there was not a lot of news-watc...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Gambling, Storage Units -- and Voting

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A couple three years ago my best girl and I had to go to Atlantic City, New Jersey for some forgotten reason.  There was a sign there on a r...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Understand First, Write Later

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Philip Bump writes for the Washington Post , which probably says everything you ever need to know about Philip Bump, and more. Jay Sutton ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Syria? Gas? Regime Change? Where is the UN?

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It is a dangerous thing when my mind wanders and, whether age or native curiosity, it has been wandering a lot lately. Let's look at S...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Divided as a Nation? We've ALWAYS Been!

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Juan Williams, the left-leaning Fox News commentator (they do have them), was on the air on Friday talking about the confirmation of Justice...
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Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton had written a daily piece for this site for four years, and now adds an occasional "visiting column." A graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in biology, he has also attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Boston Conservatory of Music -- a fine example of his combined inability to do one thing well, or the diversity of his interests, whatever you would like to infer. He is also a four-time international champion in barbershop singing as well as doing historical research on early quartet champions, and was a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1970s. He has performed the National Anthem for MLB games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Memorial Stadium and whatever the White Sox stadium is called this week. He does have an actual profession, too, consulting to the defense contracting community for many years. He routinely answers email at bsutton@alum.mit.edu or on Twitter (@rmosutton) and is happy to hear from readers . . . "UberThoughtsUSA" reflects the "other" meaning of the German word "über" -- "in regard to." The posts here, every weekday might, on a given day, be in regard to -- "über" -- almost anything.
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