Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and grandmoms out there in reader-land. We had take-out Eggs Benedict and pancakes from the coffee shop down at the bottom of the hill to celebrate Mom’s day. There is much to be said for soaking up excess Hollandaise sauce with hash browned potatoes.
In and of itself, the WaPo story about Romney’s attack on a long-haired possibly-gay kid in high school is pretty sickening, but it alone probably wouldn’t have much impact on how he’s perceived by voters in November. But it does show an early start to a pattern of behavior which should have some impact. The …
(click to enlarge) Ladies and Gentlemen, what House Republicans want to cut in order to save Pentagon programs the Joint Chiefs have already determined they don’t need or can eliminate. From the Center for American Progress
Oh fer . . . Our distinguished US House (The People’s House!) voted today to discontinue the American Community Survey, a part of the Census which has been around since 1790. Why? “It would seem that these questions hardly fit the scope of what was intended or required by the Constitution,” said Rep. Daniel Webster …
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There are about a million reactions to the news that President Obama now supports same-sex marriage (for the record, I say good for him), but two in particular caught my eye. One is from E.J. Graff of The American Prospect, who titles her post “I Am Gobsmacked,” and the other from Andrew Sullivan. Both posts …
And another “moderate” Republican bites the dust: Senator Lugar of Indiana goes down in defeat to a tea-partier. That may open a window for the Democrats there, although not a very big one. I respected Dick Lugar for his foreign policy knowledge and his thorough work on nuclear arms control, but I lost some of …
Here, Democrats! Run against this! We’ll cut poverty programs to save the Pentagon! Unless the Democratic Party is blind, deaf and dumb (in both senses), it has lots of things to point to when contesting the elections in the fall.
Mostly I like Martha, but this doesn’t work on my fitted sheets. And it’s not operator error!
I’m still fighting with the plumeria deck spotting problem. I diluted a couple of ounces of Simple Green with about 24 ounces of water and scrubbed away, and it didn’t do much good. I’m now testing full-bore undiluted SG in an out-of-the-way part of the deck. I wet the area, sprayed the cleaner on, let …
Mom recently ordered a book from Barnes & Noble (The Uncommon Reader). It came in, and since I’ve had two gift certificates burning a hole in my pocket since Christmas, I volunteered to go into town to Ala Moana Shopping Center to get it this morning. I can only say it’s a good thing I …