I have been reading this story with shock tempered by schadenfreude. If ever a Governor deserved the kicks Rick Snyder of Michigan is getting right now it’s him, unless it’s his neighbor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Look at the circumstances. Flint is a city in distress, with its industry gone and its tax base diminishing …
The photo is from December. The forecast is for waves bigger than the one shown there. Surf is expected to rise to 35 to 45 feet today [Wednesday] for the north shores of Oahu, Maui County and Kauai County. The west shores of Oahu, Kauai County and Molokai could see up to 20 to 30 …
Here’s what I mean: SHARE UPDATE BURNS OREGON! CHRISTIANS THE BATTLE TRUMPET HAS BEEN SOUNDED TIME TO RISE! CALL TO ACTION SEND IN THE TROOPS TO STAND WITH US IN BURNS OREGON! Posted by Blaine Cooper on Sunday, January 17, 2016
The town of Winslow was so pleased to be mentioned in an Eagles song it built a park, complete with statue and mural. Here’s the song, co-written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne circa 1971. Mr. Frey died today in New York of complications of rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.
Here’s a nice summary from Fred Kaplan at Slate of the most notable responses from the Republican Presidential candidates to the three transactions the US concluded with Iran this week: the release of the Navy sailors, the nuclear deal and subsequent release of Iranian assets and this morning’s prisoner exchange. It was pretty evident even …
Besides the usual loads of towels and clothing, today was “wash the Christmas tablecloths and hang them up for another year” day. We took the tree down earlier in the week, and I finally got everything back into the Christmas closet a day or two later. Pfui. Where’s my Valentine’s Day tablecloth?
Most of the album is bluesy, raucous and loud, but this opening track is quiet. The next track is a very uptempo Smiling Phases. Blood Sweat and Tears never came close to the success this album achieved again. In some form or another and with an ever-changing personnel list (over 140 bandmembers so far!) it’s …
I wasn’t ever a big fan of David Bowie or his music, probably because I didn’t hear a lot of his 1970s material since I was out of the country almost continuously from 1972 to 1978. Nonetheless I recognize how big a cultural icon he was. I’d know that if only by the volume of …
Ann Coulter thinks says Nikki Haley was mean to Donald Trump and is a closet immigration amnesty-lover who should be deported. (I’m not sure Coulter ever thinks; I think she just reacts to things.) Roy Edroso at alicublog documents the fright-wing’s responses to the release of the 10 Navy sailors momentarily detained by Iran for …
I know Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947 as a direct response to FDR’s four election victories. It’s a damned shame it did. I think Barack Obama would win a third term if he were allowed to run again, particularly against the loonies in the current Republican race. I’d like to have him around …