Those top ten beaches
In my continuing effort to get into a summer holiday mood this weekend, I am posting a link to Dr. Beach’s list of top ten sandy ocean spots. It’s heavy on the Hawaiian venues, but it also includes one in … Continue reading →
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Speaking about the 2012 election…and the weather
I’m tired of reading those polls telling us how all the Republicans in the field are doing against each other. First of all, we may not even have the full field yet. Second of all, the lesser-known names on the … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
Spambot who clearly has mistaken me for someone else: Keep posting dude. nice. Therefore do not make any tattoo on your body with any tattoo pictures, you must choose the tattoo that suits you and your body. I’ll take it … Continue reading →
Vermont: on the road to single-payer health insurance?
Tiny Vermont is probably the most leftist state in the union. Like many other New England states, it has a mix of old-time residents and their offspring, who tend to be more conservative, and relatively new arrivals (“new” in New … Continue reading →
Ed Schultz channels Dan Ackroyd
There is no question in my mind that, whether Ed Schultz is aware of it or not, that’s what was happening when he called Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” Part of the humor of the old SNL bit was that … Continue reading →
Dance me to the end of the Leonard Cohen video
I’ve finally located a certain video, discovered while I was at YouTube engaged in one of my favorite activities: procrastination by chain-viewing. You know what chain-viewing is. You watch a video, and then plan to click on just one more … Continue reading →
Learning from the NY-26 special election
It’s bad news that Democrat Kathy Hochul defeated Republican Jane Corwin in a special election in a NY district that is traditionally Republican. But let’s be careful not to generalize too much about it—although the MSM certainly will, and all … Continue reading →
Obama: time stopped in 2008
Or something like that. 2008 was a mighty big year for him, so perhaps he feels that time stopped then. I must confess that something similar happened to me. For a few years after I gave birth to my son, … Continue reading →
More on that Republican field vs. Obama
So now Giuliani is thinking about entering the race. Forgive me if I yawn; another big ho-hum. Giuliani’s time was last time, and he lost momentum, partly because he just didn’t seem to want it. If he enters now, it’s … Continue reading →
Obama gets more flak on Israel…
…some of it from expected sources, and some of it from unexpected ones. Harry Reid’s “rebuke” of Obama seems relatively mild to me, however, although the AIPAC crowd seemed to like it. Was Reid merely playing good cop to Obama’s … Continue reading →
Hollywood boomers and their inflated sense of political importance
Peter Fonda has been generating a little buzz today because of a murky and unclear statement he made at Cannes that seems to be about his training his grandsons to shoot Obama if some sort of class war starts up. … Continue reading →
The Republican field: is it a bed of weeds?
The Democrats are happy. As the Republican field shapes up, it looks either weak or strange, or in some cases both. Mitch Daniels has now pulled back for whatever reason—perhaps the fact that his family has decided they would be … Continue reading →