I was part of the target audience for the show, being 15 in 1966 when it first appeared on TV. I didn’t know enough to be a purist about bands playing their own instruments or singing their own songs, which later became a knock on the band. All I knew was that the show was …
Senator Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is retiring. I can’t say I’ll miss her. She and her fellow Maine Senator, Susan Collins, have provided as much disappointment to Democrats over the past few years as any other Republican senators. They’re both “moderates,” but both have voted in lockstep with their more radical colleagues in the Senate nearly …
Our nice new paint job is done! It’s gray with red-brown trim around the fascia and roof and white around the windows. That’s the same color scheme we had before it was painted, but it sure looks fresher now. Here’s the front: From Events (That gabled structure behind is the next-door-neighbor’s house, not ours.) Here’s …
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There’s about a two-month wait for a red Fit. I haven’t actually bought the car yet, but I’ve been told by the dealers that it takes that long. If you look at their inventory they have white Fits, silver Fits, and black Fits, but no red Fits. Oh well. At least I’ll get two months …
Andrew Sullivan periodically runs a feature on his blog called “A View from your Window” in which he shows a photo one of his readers has sent to him and asks the broader readership to try to identify its location. You don’t need to guess the location, but this is the view from one of …
Since the Republican candidates for President are now all on record in opposition to immigrants, women, and Medicare (via the Ryan budget), what groups are still on their side in the upcoming election? White working-class men? How many of those guys have wives who might express opinions about outlawing contraception?
You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Virginia bill requiring that a women seeking an abortion must have a transvaginal ultrasound probe in order to shame her into carrying the child to term (but after that, lady, you’re on your own caring for the kid). In Georgia, a state representative named Yasmin Neal has just introduced a …
From Events The gent in the red shirt is almost a dead ringer for the Dodgers’ center-fielder Matt Kemp. I told him that the other day, and he Googled Kemp on his smart phone and had to agree. Then I told him Kemp is newly-signed to a contract worth $160 million over the next eight …
The painters showed up at 7:15am this morning to power wash the exterior of the house, which meant we had to get out of it. It’s washed with a bleach-and-water dilution which gives off some really nasty fumes. Off we went to Anna Miller’s for Eggs Benedict. We met my sister there and had an …