Top Ten
Rod Heggy and Terry Hull have written more than 300 articles for Terra Extraneus since this blog went online on Dec. 23, 2005. Here are Heggy’s and Hull’s picks of their favorites from among the articles each of them has written.
| Rod Heggy’s Top Ten | Terry Hull’s Top Ten |
(1) “Modern Insurance Co. Fairy Tale: First, Kill the Lawyers!” (Jan. 2, 2006)
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Dick the Butcher, King Henry VI. Of course, Dick the Butcher meant it literally, murdering all the lawyers, because he was installing a new king. However, dismantling the ability to successfully sue insurance companies and other corporate giants has been the political and legal goal of these financial behemoths for the last thirty years…
(X) “Hamastan!” (Jan. 28, 2006)
The election of Hamas to the government of Palestine is both terrifying and intriguing. “Binyamin Netanyahu, the Likud Party leader and former Israeli prime minister, said Israel shouldn’t be surprised by the Hamas victory - the establishment of ‘Hamastan,’ he called it,” reported by CNSNews.com…
TERRY’S TEN FAVORITE ARTICLES (updated Jul. 12, 2006)
(X) “Let’s Make English Official Language, No Matter What French-Lovers Say” (Mar. 24, 2006)
Republican Congressman Ernest Istook is running for governor of Oklahoma. One of the hot-button issues Istook has raised is that Oklahoma should declare English its official language. If Istook succeeds, it will be none too soon. Personally, I’m sick and tired of people crossing our borders, bringing with them their foreign cultures and foreign languages. Melting pot, schmelting pot…
(X) “But I Know What I Like” (Jan. 27, 2006)
A French man was fined $262,700 this week for attacking a urinal with a hammer. Must be some urinal! You bet it is. A porcelain fixture manufactured by J. L. Mott Ironworks of New York in 1917. The urinal, now on display in a Paris art museum, has an estimated value of around $4 million…
