Separated At Birth – Brannigan/Schumer
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Zapp is a character on the comedy show Futurama and senior member of the military of the Democratic Order of Planets (D.O.O.P.) though his title varies; he has been referred to as a “25 star General”, Captain, Rear Brigadier, “General Major Webelo”, Christopher Rossi, and Commodore 64. He is arrogant, incompetent, chauvinistic, cocky, vain, and painfully stupid. Although he claims to be a strategic genius, Zapp Brannigan is actually an imbecile and a coward whose plans are always absurd. Zapp is inexplicably well-respected throughout the universe, appearing as a Miss Universe Judge and often (ineffectively) defending Earth from attacks. Most battles are lost with Zapp in charge, due to his stupidity and incompetence; however sometimes the army is lucky. Zapp doesn’t care about casualties and cheerfully sends wave after wave of his own men to die in battle: it is implied that most of his ‘tactical’ victories have been pyrrhic, achieved only through high death tolls.
Synonyms: tendency, inclination, predilection, BIAS [emphasis added]
To charter or not to charter is the question among many Pennsylvania school districts. A flaw (in my opinion) in Pennsylvania’s school charter system is that any application for a charter school must be approved by the school district in which it will be located. This was humorously described by Rep. Tom Killion as “saying McDonald’s gets to say whether Burger King gets to franchise in their area.“ The
I was expecting to read about the not forgotten tales of Pittsburgh like the “fourth river” or the mysterious military plane the allegedly crashed into the Monongahela River and disappeared. I was pleasantly surprised that this was really about forgotten tales; some tragic, some funny, and some enlightening. I don’t know if you have to be from the Pittsburgh area to enjoy this, but it did make it more enjoyable to visualize where some of the events took place. In fact I took a ride this morning to see one of the places and drove on one of the other places that author Thomas White described.
a lot of people wished for silver and gold as a monetary standard (bimetallism), but the gold standard was slowly and steadily adopted by the world. That is before “fiat” money (currency not backed by a commodity like gold or silver) became the rage and allowing governments to crank up the presses. These are my words not Friedman’s.
As someone who sits more in the middle (I don’t buy the “right” label anymore) I cannot help but chuckle as President Obama’s leftist friends start to treat him with the same level of respect as they used for President Bush. They have held their tongues for over two years, but as Obama faces the tough path of being 
It is often interesting to look at the ease with which non-incumbent candidates can point to the incumbent’s record and critique their performance and bloviate about what they would do in similar situations. It is hard to prevent such a successful strategy and we have learned with the current resident of the White House that a blank slate can be a powerful tool when combined with a thorough lack of inspection of a candidate’s qualifications by both the main stream media and many of the voters.