En Passant

If he had governed from the center, ab initio,

he'd be well on his way today to Mt. Rushmore.

Shouldn't the U.S. Presidency

be a full-time job?

If the President is correct

in complaining that the U.S. is falling behind other countries in percentage of college graduates,
why are our top universities setting up satellite campuses around the world, thereby hurting the United States even more?

It's 'Fleet Week' in the Big Apple,

and the streetwalkers are out in force.

Washington is funding a high-speed train between Orlando and Tampa,

in a state where almost everyone drives, and New York City is cutting back on subway and bus routes, in a city where almost everyone takes public transportation. 
Query: What's wrong with this picture?

Everything I dislike about Facebook

is now part of Google Gmail. 

Has there ever been, on earth,

a more compassionate, humanitarian country than the United States of America?

Who'd have thought that the same company

would own Slim Jim and Hebrew National?
Query: Does that mean you can no longer drink milk with your Slim Jim?

I'm in Costco Heaven.

I can see Costco (in Long Island City) from my Manhattan apartment, I can drive to Costco in 10 minutes from my summer home near the Canadian border, and a new Costco is opening this month in Manhattan within walking distance.  I no longer have to take the subway to Brooklyn.

Why is it that when a company advertises one thing and does another,

that company is often the object of litigation, but when a politician does a similar thing, his or her statements are dismissed as merely campaign rhetoric?