Not the Chris Matthews tv show, but Senator Reid telling Republican Senators “Nice little JOBS bill you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it. So vote on these 17 district judge nominations or watch it die.” Good. The Republican Senate under Mitch McConnell has been more filibuster-happy than any other in …
The West Bend breadmaker I wrote about here arrived last week. It had all its mechanical parts, but for some reason it did not have the owner’s manual in the box. Dissatisfied with this, I wrote both to Amazon and to the manufacturer directly requesting one. Amazon’s only offered solution was to send me an …
Deservedly so, however. When you lose the conference tournament championship, go 23-11 on the year but 12-6 in a conference which had a pretty bad year, that’s a recipe for being in the NIT. Oh well. Bear Down, Arizona.
After three days of rain, including a small tornado on the Windward side and hail in several places, the sun is out. Good thing, too, because we’ve got the raw materials for our deck in the driveway but we’ve had no carpenters since Tuesday; it’s been too wet for them to work. That’s a little …
News headline: Pope denounces U.S. political push to legalize gay marriage The pope’s latest comments in opposition to homosexual marriage came in an address to bishops from several Midwestern states on a regular visit to the Vatican. “Sexual differences cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the definition of marriage,” he said. He added that the …
I’ve had a severe pain in my lower jaw for the past two days, to the point where I called up my dentist and begged to be squeezed in sometime soon. Luckily for me, they could fit me in today at 11:30am. I trundled on down there and saw something new. The office has upgraded …
I went back to the doc to day for a follow-up examination of the cyst removal. Before he started last week he kept warning me “I’m not a plastic surgeon, so you’ll probably have a bigger scar than you would if one of them did this.” This was not entirely reassuring, but I figured he …
So St. John McCain, who never met a foreign policy situation he didn’t think could be improved by inserting US military force into it, is now calling for air strikes against Syria. Three of the four candidates for the Republican nomination to be President want to threaten Iran (Ron Paul is a non-interventionist). Comically, Romney …
I’ve often had occasion to quote one of its Civil War politicians, who said “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” I thank the Republicans there for yet another occasion to do so. The Laurens County GOP has just instituted a new policy: You must favor, and …
I’m all for the Girl Scouts, but their cookies are $5 a box out here! Weren’t they just $2 not so long ago? I got my Thin Mints fix, but the kids are gonna have to meet their quota without more from me.