I love George Will...

goofy bow tie and all.

Here are some great & timely anecdotes from his year-end column, for my loyal readers (even those who lack erudition) to enjoy, along with my prescient comments...as usual. :)

Enjoy!

“Onward and upward with progressivism: In a Las Vegas suburb, the United Food and Commercial Workers union hired temp workers at $6 an hour to picket a nonunion Wal-Mart, where wages start at $6.75 an hour.”

Their union is obviously run by the guy who orchestrated the NHL player’s strike, which worked out so well.

The players ended up losing a year’s pay (millions of dollars lost for many, it’s laughable that most players didn’t really figure it out until last spring, and now they're mad at the union (idiots!)), and they also were forced to accept a salary cap.

Boy, that hard-nosed bargaining really taught the owners a lesson.

And to a former Mpls Laker:

“Death, as it must to all, came to 6-foot-10 George Mikan, 80, who was the NBA's first superstar. Madison Square Garden's marquee once read: WED. BASKETBALL: GEO. MIKAN VS. KNICKS.”

His statue now stands tall in the Target Center lobby.

Next…

“Vic Power, a Puerto Rican first baseman, was one of baseball's first Hispanic stars. Sports Illustrated reports that when Power was playing in the minor leagues in the South, he was told by a waitress that the restaurant did not serve Negroes. He replied, "That's OK, I don't eat Negroes."

Boy, I would have loved to meet that man!

“Mark Matthews, 111, was the oldest of the surviving Buffalo Soldiers, the African-Americans who fought Native Americans on behalf of Euro-Americans. Ah, multiculturalism.”

That opens so many topics that I can’t pursue every one today, so I’ll hit this one.

Which year do we say time stops and everyone owns the land they are on for the rest of eternity?

Is it 2005 BC, or 2005 AD, or somewhere in the middle?

I think it’s fair to say, that every culture that has land today, took it from another culture, who had taken it from another culture before it.

That is the story throughout history, but modem liberals seem to think there is some ambiguous date, like musical chairs, where if you landed when the music stopped, it is your territory ad infinitum.

Liberals refuse to accept the constant reality of change, so let them be doomed by it.

Merry Christmas all!