Ted Alexandro
 
 

April 2008

Crossing Over

April 4, 2008

This morning I was crossing the street at a busy intersection by an elementary school in my neighborhood. Across the street from me stood a school crossing guard, a sixty-something year old woman decked out in official “guard gear”, bundled in layers despite sunny, fifty degree temperatures. Crossing guards and homeless people never seem to [...]

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Iraq Fatigue

April 1, 2008

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about Americans suffering from “Iraq Fatigue”. The news is reporting that over sixty percent of Americans are fatigued by the war in Iraq, to say nothing of Afghanistan. I bet those numbers are even higher because, until I knew there was an actual term for it, I wasn’t even [...]

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E.T. Phone Home

April 1, 2008

Elliott Spitzer is the latest politician to get busted for having an affair. John McCain was also alleged to have cheated on his wife, though not with a prostitue. Personally, I don’t care if a politician cheats on his wife. That’s why a politican’s wife is referred to as the “first lady”- you’re not the [...]

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