This has been all over the news today. Yesterday on “Face the Nation” former General Wes Clark said of Senator McCain, “I don?t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.” In a sane world, that would be patently obvious. Suffering in the Hanoi Hilton for five-and-a-half …
This is a darned good version. The band was an ongoing soap opera, but they sure managed to put out some amazingly good music between battles.
Baseball will drive you crazy. Yesterday the Dodgers won 1-0 without getting a base hit. It didn’t qualify as a no-hitter because the Dodgers, as the home team, didn’t hit in the bottom of the ninth. Today, the Dodgers lost 1-0 while getting three hits. So, exceptional pitching or lousy offense?
Agapanthus, aka Lily of the Nile. We have a planter box with a bunch of them. This year the white ones came up. There are some shots of single blooms there too.
Far from Mexico, but still in favor of Cal-Mex food, that’s us.
I’m in charge of rebandaging Tigger for the next ten days. Today was the first time I did it. I watched and took photos as the vet did it on Monday so I’d have a road map. The preliminary act, not photographed: apply some Mupirocin to the wound. It’s an antibacterial ointment. Step one Step …
Senator Feingold has a fact sheet up about the FISA bill he’s fighting. There are some good talking points there if you’d like to call your Senators. Since they’re probably going to be in-state over their 4th of July recess, marching in parades and whatnot, you might even be able to raise a question in …
Three years ago I wrote about Patrick Henry College, a very conservative school churning out graduates who were taking jobs right and left in the government. Ha! Pensacola Christian College sneers at Patrick Henry. “You’re conservative? Watch us!” it says. Of Pensacola’s many rules, those dealing with male-female relationships are the most talked about. There …
I don’t usually click the “On This Day” section of the NYT, but June 25 happens to be the anniversary of the Custer Battle at Little Bighorn. Here’s the NYT story as published on that date. Custer went into battle with Companies C, L, I, F, and E, of the Seventh Cavalry, and the staff …
Seen over at Making Light: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency?s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week. C’mon, New York Times, you’ve got to be …