That could be the family motto, if the family in question was the Connecticut-Texas Bushes. Quoting Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog: In 1986, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush offered an unsatisfying, passive-voice explanation for the Iran-Contra scandal in which the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran in order to finance an illegal war on …
Snoopy and Uno (the 2008 winner) are smiling. Another beagle, Miss P, a cousin of Uno’s, won the Westminster Dog Show Best in Show award tonight. She’s a beauty.
Have some Blood Sweat and Tears as they began in Al Kooper’s mind.
From Events From filling the feeder till this happened: approximately 10 minutes. If I’d had a camera with a faster shutter speed I might have gotten some detail of one of the ones about to land, but my 35mm film camera is empty and my digital camera is a Canon point-and-shoot.
I now have the entire Archer’s Beach trilogy by Sharon Lee. I also have Andy Weir’s The Martian. Also Keith Laumer’s A Plague of Demons & Other Stories. Weir’s book was self-published in 2011 and purchased by Crown Publishing in 2014. It’s gotten very good reviews. Laumer was an interesting character. An ex-Air Force officer, …
This is Alice Fredenham, a 28-year-old beauty therapist from Hartfordshire, England. She sang this as an audition for “Britain’s Got Talent.”
Today Federal judge Callie V.S. Granade ordered the probate judge in Mobile County to begin issuing marriage licenses to every couple who asks for one, no matter whether the couple is same-sex or opposite-sex. “If Plaintiffs take all steps that are required in the normal course of business as a prerequisite to issuing a marriage …
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Former basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian died today at 84. He was a great coach and a thorn in the NCAA’s side for his entire career, a career in which he won 729 games and lost only 201 for three Division 1 universities, all in the West: Long Beach State, UNLV and Fresno State. He won …
First Kanye West decides that Beyoncé needs help from the Grammy voters. Then NBC suspends Brian Williams from The Nightly News for six months without pay. Hey! Maybe they could just switch jobs! We now know that Mr. Williams has aspirations to be a late night host; from the story above: About five years ago, …
A federal court judge has told Alabama that it can’t block same-sex marriages; its law banning them is unconstitutional. A federal appeals court has refused to allow the state to delay that order. The Supreme Court of the United States weighed in today, refusing to allow a stay of the lower court’s order. Game, set …