There is no moral imperative driving this message, tonight — no calls for a life of self sacrifice, no direct calls for intensive reflection this night, not even a real punch line of the story. I will let you decide
I’ve held off on commenting in the minutiae surrounding the Michael Jackson affair, and trial, mostly because it simply didn’t interest me. I have kept a loose eye on it, however, enough to understand that they had his doctor on
Westbury, Long Island, NY– A frequent stop for me… dropping off some drinks to the thirsty club shoppers. Nearly 80 here… you’d not know it was fall. Today, I’m going to do a one subject Ramble.
Some observations on
Paul Krugman, New York Times, writes, via William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11
I’d like to offer up a re-post of mine from a tenth of 2009. I post this with an eye toward the argument over the debt ceiling limit. I submit to the reader that had we not been holding the
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Obama the Sensitive, what a winning combination for a President, a thick skull and thin skin, from Michelle:
And now, the Boston Herald has been spanked by the White House for…running a front-page op-ed by Mitt Romney:
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Albany,NY— I’m at the Pilot Truck stop tonight, and another week is in the books. Tomorrow, I take my empty to a warehouse near Rochester to be loaded over the week end, and take my truck back to
I’ve been taking pics of trucks and things that catch my eye, and thought I’d pass them on to you.
I won’t try to speak for the guy in Florida arranging for the very public burning of the Koran.
Nor, by the same token, will I attempt to speak for the foreign-funded groups attempting to put a Mosque at or
Billy Beck as usual nails it:
“It is time to pop the tea baggers’ favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the
Continue reading about Ridicule And the Socialist Left, Vis’ a Vie’ Beck
I’ve been watching the nonsense over GOP Chair Steele’s comments on Afghanistan, with a somewhat jaundiced eye.
Look, the DNC may like to claim that Steele is “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan”, but what’s
I’m starting a new category of posts here at BitsBlog, which I hope will be of at least passing interest to you. I’m going to call the category “The Truck Collection”. It’ll be pics of trucks that really catch my
Thoughts on J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, from Pat Austin, And so it goes in Shreveport:
J. D. Salinger was not my favorite author ever, but I’m sorry he has died. I teach Catcher in the