The creator of Rocky and Bullwinkle has passed away. Criticize us boomers all you want-but we had some great cartoons. Also, on a another sad note, James McArthur-he of the phrase “Book ’em Dano!” passed away today. Man I feel old.
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Bottom of the eighth and the Giants are kicking ass again!
Continue readingHow she thinks……..
Richard asked me a while back-what the S.O. thought about life in America. I promised a response. To appreciate the way her little mind thinks-it is important to understand a couple of key background facts. Otherwise the ideas won't make a lot of sense; or they will seem more hateful
Continue readingAn error of caution…
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has a pretty good diagnosis of why the folks have lost track of the context when it comes to the economy. Obama was just too damn cautious when he needed to be bold. Unfortunately, the Republicans have succeeded in persuading a large enough portion
Continue readingWorld Series time.
Sitting here watching the Giants kicking ass and taking names. Barry Bonds or no-I’m just going to have to root for them. They play real baseball in the National League after all.
Continue readingPrincipled conservatism…………..
UPDATE: Here is how they do it. And in a note to my commenters-“most election law is state law”. We’ll skip any discussion of “curb-stomping” and how its all the victim’s fault-so therefore the stomped should be doing the apologizing. Original Post: You know, if the teabaggers want to stop
Continue readingPretty cool…
Cost of self financing your own campaign? 149 Million. Cost of selling your soul to the Tea Bag nation? Pretty damn high. Allow your opponent to hijack one of your own ads to make a point? Priceless.
Continue readingThe way the poster should read……
Whenever I see someone post one of those stupid “Miss Me Yet” posters with the picture of the stupid man who destroyed the first decade of the 21st century for America-I can’t help but think they have the picture wrong. It is the father, not the son who should be on
Continue readingOctober 25th……
Today is the anniversary of three different battles. The nostalgics and historically myopic among the blogosphere will focus on St. Crispin’s day. The more nautically minded will focus on the fact that it is anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, an American naval victory-but as Herman Wouk pointed out,
Continue readingI’m taking it back…….
Recently, I have seen several stories on TV about how “whore” is the new ” N”-word for women. Now a long time ago I pointed out that there was only one really bad word when it comes to women. So whenever I hear someone talk about the “w” word being the
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