The Marion Star recently reported that Marion County (Ohio) Commissioner Josh Daniels has filed for reelection.

If there is a God in Heaven SOMEONE in this town will run against him and spare the community another four years of Mr. Daniels.  Personally, I'd vote for nearly anyone else!  Anybody know if Francis the talking mule is available?

You may remember, this is the same guy that shot his wife and pretty much got away with it.  More on that story here.

But Wait, There's More!

Lo and behold, this morning at Marion's Perkins Restaurant I learned that at least one person is filing to run against Josh Daniels.  While I can't divulge his name, this person is well known to me and will make a terrific candidate and (hopefully) a good commissioner.  More as it becomes available!

In our smallish, rust belt little town of Marion, Ohio we've had always been satisfied with the city services provided by the municipality. Since recycling of trash came into vogue some many years back and we received our blue tub from the city we've always been diligent in separating our paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, and glass items into our little blue bin. The city owns at least one special recycling truck with open bins in the back for collection from the blue bins.

We've watched the recycling guy carefully cull the different recyclable items from resident's bins into his vehicle's bins on trash and recycle day. It seemed that we were all doing our part. The city and it's employees appeared serious about their commitment to the environment. We actually received a note of instruction on our door once when we did not adequately separate out waste materials to their satisfaction.

Imagine our consternation this week when we witnessed the trash men come down our street and dump BOTH trash cans and the blue recycling bins into the back of their garbage trucks! What's going on here? There was maybe 4 inches of snow on the ground.  So, was it just too bad out to recycle?  Or, was this Obama's fault, or Al-Qaeda's, or worse?

Perhaps it's just that the City of Marion's environmental commitment doesn't run quite as deep as we thought. Wow, another bubble burst!  Anyone from the City of Marion that cares to comment on this can contact us at webmaster@lairdslair.com

Chin Music
by Louis Menand from The New Yorker

In 2008, half the people who watched the Fox News Channel were over sixty-three, which is the oldest demographic in the cable-news business, and, according to a poll, the majority of the ones who watched the most strident programs, such as Sean Hannity’s and Bill O’Reilly’s shows, were men. All that chesty fulminating apparently functions as political Cialis. Fox News shows should probably carry a warning: Contact your doctor if you have rage lasting more than four hours. More

PIPCO

You and I lived through it, now let's take a quick review of the utter insanity that was the year 2009.

From Joe the Plumber to Joe Lieberman, Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers! It's all here!  More

You might think so from the number of articles and videos posted on this site.

Fact is, I don't hate the man. It's just amazing to me that he actually has a TV and radio show!  Even more stunning is that there are quite a few people in the country that actually pay attention to him. I post information about him for the benefit of those that don't know what a moron he is.

Sadly, it's true. Television's evangelical constitutional reformist still walks amongst us. What a shame!  More

I read the Columbus Dispatch daily and the other day there was a letter to the editor about guns, gun control, and the lack of public outrage about gun deaths in this country. More

Ignore Fox
Obama's right. It's time to stop taking the network's skewed news seriously!
By Jacob Weisberg from Slate

Last week, when White House communications director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does.

It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage. More