The Ramble for 3-22-12

Carlisle, PA— Actually, I’m a little closer to Harrisburg… but whatever.

GREAT TO BE BACK– Yes, it took a while, but we’re back. I simply got fed up with the antics at the webhost I was using.  Far too much

Going green means going nowhere, from David Brooks, New York Times:

New clean-energy sources could address environmental, economic and national security problems all at once. In his 2008 convention speech, Barack Obama promised to create five million green

Rumblings from the ‘Rats plantation, from Fareed Zakaria, Chicago Tribune:

Democrats are finally up for a fight — with President Barack Obama. Having despaired that Obama gave in to the tea party on the debt deal, they now

Obami stand mute, from Dana Milbank, RCP:

WASHINGTON — There have been worse times to start a new job in Washington. When Abraham Lincoln arrived in the capital 150 years ago this week, for example, the South had

Florence, NJ– Eric is a hurting unit, today. I fell off the truck day before yesterday, while doing a roadside repair, and I’m felling all of it, the day after. Other than that, I’m actually doing fairly well, I think. 

As regular readers will know, I’ve had a new job for a few months now which has prevented me from doing much blogging.

That’s changing, with the addition of an HP/Compaq NC6000 nI picked up used for $100. Everything’s there,

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• AS REGARDS DAVE WIEGEL...Does anyone not understand that the reason that the Post hired him in the first place

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

Several notes.

• Well, first of all, we have had some site issues this morning, apparently relate to an issue with a plugin update. For some reason, the webserver cache isn’t responding as it should.  I’ve disabled it to allow business

Welcome back my friends, to the show that was on pause too long… the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• YEAH, I KNOW…. I let these Nightly Forays into political  and social commentary slide for a few nights. I’m still getting used to

I know. it’s been a week or so since you’ve heard from me.  It’s shameful the way I’ve let my writing here slide. I plead guilty with this as an excuse… I managed to locate a new job that looks

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

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• YEAH, I KNOW... Where was yesterday’s Ramble? Sorry about that…I had a last minute schedule change. I warned you guys that

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• FIRST, A PERSONAL NOTE: I’d like to take a moment to thank those who wrote me after I made mention of my

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with