Long, but well worth reading. Excerpt: Some blame the contractors involved for not being upfront about the potential for such fundamental difficulties, but some say the contractors did offer warnings, and especially that the contractors believed the time they were … Continue reading →
Commenter “Geoffrey Britain” had the following to say: How many more H.W. Bush’s must we support before it is acknowledged that America’s path to the gallows is merely delayed under such men? It is not purity we seek but an … Continue reading →
Of course, many of those who hate him would quip that the title of this post is an oxymoron, and that he hasn’t got one. Har dee har har har. But this sounds pretty interesting to me—a book by Cheney … Continue reading →
Not killer bees: suicide bees. Yesterday was a lovely warm day, and I had lunch with a friend. We decided the weather was so nice that we’d sit outside at a restaurant that had some sidewalk tables. I’d ordered a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Here’s a post I first wrote in 2005. It’s a favorite of mine.] I think it may be a lost pedagogical device, but when I was in grade school, we were forced by our teachers (mostly elderly women, as … Continue reading →
…from the Democrats’ point of view is not that it will keep people from enrolling for a while. After all, there’s no enormous rush, although it would have been nice to have gotten the ball rolling faster. It’s the undermining … Continue reading →
That is, they’re addicted to Oreos, and they like to eat the insides first. I kid you not. I wonder if, given the opportunity, they also would do what I used to do when I was a little girl: break … Continue reading →
…and he didn’t. But Chris Christie almost certainly will win, big time: One New Jersey Republican source noted that, if anything, the dichotomy between the two outcomes will only further crystallize Christie as a “unique” player in an increasingly partisan … Continue reading →
Of course. The Senate voted last night, the House will approve today. Now it’s time to emphasize what a train wreck Obamacare is. However, that could end up leading to single payer if the Republicans don’t do well in the … Continue reading →
Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane famously said that if you can remember anything about the 60s you weren’t really there. Cute, but not really true. I bet even Kantner remembers quite a bit (as you can see by this), and … Continue reading →
You’ve probably already heard about the EBT card breakdown during a power outage in which shoppers at a couple of Louisiana Walmarts purposely took advantage of the situation by “buying” a huge number of groceries for amounts that greatly exceeded … Continue reading →
Yesterday I went to Whole Foods. I don’t live very close to one. But not too very far away, either. Perhaps just right (in the Goldilocks sense), because any closer and I’d be a lot poorer and a lot fatter, … Continue reading →