Three kilometers long and full of beer! Underground! Even if anything goes wrong, it’s hardly likely to be as damaging as any oil pipeline breach might be. It’s environmentally sound, too, since the purpose is to eliminate hundreds of truck deliveries per year. I don’t drink much beer anymore, but this is a pipeline I …
North Carolina’s Republican-held legislature clearly tried to discriminate against African-American voters when it passed what it laughingly called voting rights legislation back in 2013. The federal appeals court unanimously ruled that way, writing “The record makes clear that the historical origin of the challenged provisions in this statute is not the innocuous back-and-forth of routine …
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Actually for my class it will be the 48th, but what the heck. I’m thinking of going to a class reunion to be held in the DC suburban town of Annandale next month. I’ve had lots of email contact with a fair number of my classmates thanks to my volunteering to be the photo curator …
This is Bunny Berigan, a great trumpeter and bandleader from the 1930s who died way too young of cirrhosis of the liver. This might be my mother’s favorite song of all time.
I had pneumonia back in June working on the campaign and could barely get out of bed. How @HillaryClinton still campaigned is remarkable. — Austin Blumenfeld (@apblumenfeld) September 11, 2016 I will admit it might have been foolhardy to keep campaigning as hard as she has, but no American politician is going to sit at …
Secretary Clinton said something in a speech last night which caused the professional pearl-clutchers in the media to gasp and caused the Republicans to feign offense, saying she’d called their voters a bad thing. Here’s the text; you decide. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what …
Today this 3-CD set is being released. It’s a re-release of the first two Trio albums Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt recorded in 1987 and 1999 and a third bonus disc with over twenty unreleased tracks and alternate takes from the first two recording sessions. The initial album was released in March 1987. …
One does wonder whether the $25K political contribution Trump made to Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi (through his charitable foundation) was a payoff for her decision not to join a lawsuit against the jerk millionaire candidate’s Trump University for defrauding Florida students. The facts are pretty clear. If you’ve got a suspicious mind you’d say, …
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What part of national security do Secretary Clinton’s emails constitute, and what part of national security is letting Trump skate by asking him repeatedly if he thinks he’s qualified to be Commander in Chief? Matt Lauer is no more a tough-minded journalist than my dog Abby is. NBC has half-a-dozen more qualified reporters who could …
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We only have Vin Scully broadcasting Dodgers games for about twenty more games and then he will retire after 67 years. MLB Network put together a tribute video which was broadcast on Labor Day. Your browser does not support iframes.. If that video doesn’t play here’s a link to a page where it’s embedded and …
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