The crowd goes nuts. After having dinner with my son, we went back to my hotel. The hockey game was in the second period. He had a long day and still had to make his way home. So with the evening turning late, I bid him adieu and we were
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Andrew Sullivan nicely sums up why tea is not a drink I really favor. And this is why, despite my own deep suspicion of big government, I remain unmoved by the tea-partiers. Their partisanship and cultural hostility to Obama are far more intense, it seems to me, than their genuine
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Greetings from Pittsburgh. I forgot that the Penquins would be playing game 2 of their playoff series tonight-at the Mellon Arena just a stone’s throw from my hotel. So It was crazy when I arrived as hordes of fans wearing their Penguins jerseys were in the lobby and the bar.
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Gotta run-but will have more posting tomorrow as I dig out and go see my son in “the Burgh”. Till then-just a friendly greeting for all the teabaggers taking to the street today And for all the “working women” there: P.S. Here is a better explanation of the “Lucky Ducky”
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You can see a long way. Greetings from Tucson! Out here for work. Flying into the city yesterday was actually very interesting. The flight was full and I was in a window seat. Between sleeping and getting about 1/3 of the way through The Singapore Grip, I did not look
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One of the most popular mantra’s of current conservative thought is the theme that I call, “Freddie the Freeloader”. Namely that part of teabag orthodoxy that holds that the nation is literally full to brim with people more than content to live off of “welfare” and do nothing for themselves
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Tina Fey that is-doing a better job of being Palin than Palin does.
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Heading west tomorrow for a circuitous trip around the corners of the country ( sort of). Back to the desktop in about a week. Laptops and electronics galore with me-but there is work also-so posting is as it is. There is a new movie in Japan that opened this weekend-“My darling
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One reason I have pretty much parted ways with a lot of the mil-blogging community, is it unrelenting tendency to “pile on” on relatively minor issues while refusing to dig deeper on issues of major import to the military community. It has become almost an article of faith, that a
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There is only one survivor of the Enola Gay left. Read about him here.
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