Is nothing sacred? I just walked through the family room and found Mom’s tv showing me a talk by this guy, a columnist for The American Spectator and author of a new book called “The War on Football: Saving America’s Game.” And to whom is Mr. Flynn giving this talk? Why, to the Heritage Foundation, …
‘Cause you can’t have Turkey Day without Arlo and Officer Obey and the Group W bench and the twenty-seven 8 x 10 color glossy photographs with the circles and arrows on the back of each one.
A query: Shouldn’t Republicans hate Thanksgiving? After all, the myth says the Pilgrims desperately needed the safety net the local Indians provided with their maize and turkey and green bean casseroles. Without that handout from the ruling party in the neighborhood (“government,” we might call it) they’d all have gone hungry. Kinda like food stamps …
Yesterday he said quite clearly (twice!) that the ACA has “death panels” to be used to ration care. This is not true. He knows it’s not true. He tried to walk it back via Twitter, but his problem is that he said it during a radio interview and it’s on tape. Let’s not forget that …
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The fridge ice maker was finally repaired on Thursday of last week and has been producing cubes at a gratifying rate. Yay Sears and Kenmore. The wall oven, on the other hand . . . I turned the oven to self-cleaning mode today (to prepare for Thanksgiving, doncha know) and watched as it heated up, …
I’m cautiously optimistic about this deal; it’s interim, after all, which means its effects can be reversed if Iran doesn’t live up to its terms. Interim also means the United States Senate doesn’t get a chance to whack at it. Ordinarily that wouldn’t worry me, even though nearly every member of that body on either …
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The poor Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors lost their eleventh straight game this season and second overtime game in a row this afternoon. I really question running the ball four straight times into the line in your only overtime possession, but I don’t get paid half-a-million bucks a year, so what do I know? The Arizona Wildcats, …
(I wrote and posted this ten years ago. It’s one of those memories that hasn’t gone away, as is the sight of the dual contrails in the sky the day Challenger blew up and the crash of planes into the World Trade Center.) 40 years ago today I was a 13-year old 8th grader at …
The Democrats finally did it. They acted to defeat Republican obstructionism by filibuster, changing the rules to allow simple majority votes to advance judicial and executive branch nominations. Many Democrats had been very hesitant to act, fearing that the move would boomerang when Republicans won back control of the Senate and the White House. But …
This annual event always gives Obama a chance to make jokes. He didn’t disappoint this year either. “Early in Oprah Winfrey’s career her bosses told her she should change her name to Susie,” President Obama quipped in introducing Winfrey. “I have to pause here to say I got the same advice.” He then assured the …