Vermont Senate calls for impeachment of Bush

At least a large group of people is finally moving in the right direction! I mean, it's only taken just over 6 years for this to occur, but hey - progress is progress. I applaud and encourage this move made by the Vermont State Senate to push for an impeachment trial against President Bush. How many more laws does he have to violate -or how many more wars does he need to start- before the American public realizes what is going on? Does he have to put tanks on the streets of your city? Does he need to station Army personnel in your living room? Shall he start barcoding your head? WAKE UP!!

To the state of Vermont - congratulations on leading America on this issue. Keep it up and hopefully others will follow. Someone must remove Bush from office and hold him accountable for the crimes he has committed. Bill Clinton's impeachment was nothing compared what this trial would cover!

Andrew and I discussed the Don Imus issue in our show last night (the first of our new mid-week show) and had some disagreements. Obviously, everyone with an opinion on this thing can find someone to disagree with.

Here is a five page article from Time.com about the hypocrisy, the side effects, the money involved, and of course, the people. As I said on the show, my opinion is that none of this would matter right now if Al Sharpton made the same comment. Don Imus wouldn't be calling for Sharpton to be fired. Major advertisers wouldn't be fleeing the show like rats on the Titanic. Political candidates wouldn't be throwing Sharpton under the bus. The only reason this matters is because a white shock-jock said it. That's it.

Where are Sharpton's rallies against hip-hop artists who use far worse degrading comments in every single one of their songs? Where is Sharpton's apology to the Duke Lacrosse players who were just deemed innocent of the false charges against them? How far will his hypocrisy go?

Feel free to leave your comments and/or send me an e-mail. Especially if you think Imus is getting what he deserves, I would like to know why you think that.

To Tip or Not to Tip?

That is the question. Anyone who is not agoraphobic and actually ventures into the world faces this problem on a regular basis. When you get served by a waiter, valet your car, take the truck for a wash, whatever. What do you tip? A couple bucks? A percentage? No tip at all.

Here's my theory. I have a mentally exercising job requiring specialized knowledge of a particular field. I'm an executive with a university education. I don't receive a tip. Why is that? Some would say that I don't need to get tips because I have an executive salary. Nice assumption, but it's wrong. And compensation should match skills and education. So why tip those with less marketable skills and education? Courtesy maybe. Or sympathy. But they are not paid slave wages. So why do they deserve extra money from me?

And the "15% rule" is ridiculous! If I have a $9 burger at one sit-down restaurant and a $15 burger at another sit-down restaurant, why does the $15 burger waiter get a bigger tip? He did the same amount of work. That's idiotic.

So if you are the kind of person with lots of extra money to give people who already have paychecks, there are a few Halliburton executives who love to pad their wallets with taxpayer bucks!