Just after New Year’s Day, I added a question to the Patrick’s Place Poll focusing on the controversy of how to refer to the current year.
Some people insist it should be “two-thousand-ten.” A few insist it should be “two-thousand and ten,” which is absolutely incorrect because in mathematics, the “and” indicates a decimal position.
But according to the poll, the majority …

The Patrick’s Place Poll may look pretty much the same as it always has, but it’s now being powered by a different plugin within Wordpress.  Hopefully, this will allow folks to vote once, but not vote a second time in the same poll.
The current one, about the Cash for Clunkers program, is up and running now.  You’ve got five days …

The Patrick’s Place Poll asking whether Governor Mark Sanford should stay in office or resign ended with a 67/33% split favoring resignation.
For the third of respondents who think Sanford shouldn’t have to step down, I have to wonder why they feel that way. I sure hope it’s not the tired old, “Clinton did the same thing and stayed in …

There’s a new poll up in the sidebar about legalizing marijuana.  Vote now!

Do you think Mark Sanford should resign as governor of South Carolina after admitting that he not only had an affair?  Vote in the Patrick’s Place Poll on the sidebar!

The newest Patrick’s Place Poll is asking you which TV game show you think you’d be best at playing for real.
My favorite game show is, as most of you know, The Price is Right.  I liked it a lot better when Bob Barker was host; the new version with Drew Carey doesn’t feel quite the same.  Still, it’s a game …

Remember the story about the protest planned at a restaurant whose manager had the gall to ask a breastfeeding mother to make an attempt to cover up?
It prompted a question in the Patrick’s Place Poll:  How do you feel about breastfeeding in public?  Here were the results:

60% – Moms should breastfeed in public, but should try to be discreet.
23% – …

Cat of This Much is True left the following comment to my post about the coach who was fired after his girls’ basketball team smoked its competition in a 100-0 blowout:
“In most leagues, there is a “slaughter rule” which sets a limit by which a team can be behind. Once that is reached, the game is automatically over. In Little …

Here’s your chance to have a field day.  The new Patrick’s Place Poll in the sidebar gives you the chance to rate President Bush on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best president ever and 1 being the worst.  Feel free to cast your vote.

Well, we’re in it now.  So how do you feel as we start a new year?
Will this one be better than last year?  Will it make last year look like a trip through paradise?
Take the new Patrick’s Place Poll on the sidebar, and if you want to share what you’re most looking forward to or what you most fear, leave …

Please vote in the new Patrick’s Place Poll on the sidebar:  should the chairmen of the American auto corporations have to resign if their companies receive a bailout?  Would you hold them responsible for their companies’ financial state?  Vote now!

A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans expect great things from the Obama presidency, according to CNN:
“The public thinks it’s likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and …

What’s your favorite social networking site?  Do you Myspace?  Do you Facebook?
I think my first foray into social networking sites was on Friendster, which seemed to be harmless enough.  One or two people I know were actually on that site.
Then I joined Myspace.  More people I know are there, but there are a lot of people I don’t know who …

Here are the results from the latest Patrick’s Place Poll, which asked which candidate you thought was most ready to lead from Day One, an obscure qualification that no one can really define because it means different things to different people.  Regardless of the vagueness in determining what exactly might make a candidate ready for such a task, here are …

Who’ll be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008? It would seem that Karl Rove has already decided that it’ll be Hillary Clinton. In his Newsweek column, he discusses how the Republican candidate — he apparently hasn’t decided who that will be, yet — can beat her:
“Say in authentic terms what you believe. The GOP nominee must highlight his …

The procession was led by two horses pulling a pine box topped with a boquet of fake black roses. Funeral-goers weren’t crying.
They were cheering. 

The local community of Mount Pleasant has banned smoking in indoor workplaces, including restaurants and bars, effective September 1st, according to the Post and Courier. The city of Charleston plans to enact its own smoking ban in July.
Unlike Charleston and nearby Sullivan’s Island, whose smoking bans carry a maximum fine of $500 per offense and up to 30 …

(Insert your own joke here.)
But seriously, folks, it’s time for a new edition of the Patrick’s Place Poll, and what better topic at the moment than the story that’s getting national attention: the transfer of Paris Hilton from prison to house arrest, or, from rags to riches.
There’s a lot of debate out there from both sides. Some say that …