The Snowjob… Ohio Style

For those of you who don’t know why the silence from me of late, I’m in Ohio on a job search.

At the moment I’m up to my pipiks in snow…. the entire state, apparentlyis under a blanket of white

Welcome, one and all, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

• STATE OF THE ONE: If you’re interested in reading the speech, it’s here. Frankly, I had thought to do a running commentary

Welcome dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• SPENDING FREEZE: So Obama’s response to the anger he’s generated, is that he claims he wants a spending freeze on “many” domestic

I spent this monring hunting around for things related to my new job and in that process, found a wonderful montage called “A Trucker’s View Of America” that I thought I’d share with you.

It’s occurred to me that I

Most people will remember, I think… at least those not ‘educated’ at government schools… that Hiroshima was hit by a bomb at the end of world war two… and we’ve all seen some of the destruction wrought by that attack.

CBS has a problem and even the New York Times can see it, by Bill Carter and Brian Stelter:

For the intensely private Mr. Letterman, the revelations, which resulted from a bizarre extortion attempt, are sure to be extremely embarrassing,

A rare day after a storm, where tunring one way, you can see rainbows, and in the other, a sunset like few others. Drill each pic to get the full sized version

There’s something about a road leading off into the distance that makes one want to follow, even when you don’t know, and can’t see, where it leads.

There’s something about a nightfall, that makes the darkness seem inviting.

There’s something

To our east  by a few miles lies Rochester’s Lake Ave, famed in song and story.

(Yes, song… most recently, Foreigner’s “Rev on the Red Line”… Lead singer Lou Graham grew up in Gates, a bedroom on Rochester’s West Side..

A rainbow of such clarity is an unusual event of itself… but a double? You’re looking east along Buffalo Street by the tracks. This is the first I’ve ever caught. You can’t see it in this shot, but it’s a

• Ayn Rand Interview: Boortz, today, runs an Ayn Rand interview from 1959 with Mike Wallace of all folks.
• Obama loses another six polling points:  So says CBS. All in the last month, yet. Given it’s CBS, I figure we’re

Karl Malden has died, from the Associated Presss:

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 97.

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Some of you, earlier this evening, will have noticed some strange goings on with the look and feel of the blog.

What happened was that  was tinkering, trying to set up a user-level theme switcher.  It’s not working, yet, but

The polite leftist explanation for Obama’s lack of serious response to the events in Iran has been that such a response would allow Iran’s tyrannical leaders to blame the United States for the revolution currently occurring there.  There’s only one

We’ve got the update in for the latest version of WordPress, v2.8.  All seems well.

Let me know via feedback if you see anything amiss.