"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Cindy Sheehan has left the building. If it hasn’t already happened, mainstream media coverage of the protest at George W. Bush’s ranch will soon dwindle to the level given missing black women, and we can all quit thinking about dead and wounded Americans and Iraqis. My friend Dick says democracies can’t fight long wars. I […]
Seeing is believing. From Metafilter: Black people loot, white people borrow. Racist photo captions by Yahoo News/AP illuminate more than Katrina’s aftermath. If these pictures are taken down, there are mirrors right here. I’d say something snarky, but that would be snarking snark. . . .
So it’s all like I’m gonna put the Sodom & Gomorrah to New Orleans, and then no, maybe I’ll angle off to the east and just flood it a little instead, so even though you got wet, you skated this time, Big Easy. Whew! These damn hurricanes keep threatening apocalyptic disaster and then delivering normal […]
Reverend Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Hugo Chavez. Apparently they mistranslated the Sixth Commandment. It should have read “Thou Shalt Kill.”
Let me say this right up front: I despise Matt Drudge and the Drudge Report. But I freely admit that I check his newsletter daily and almost always find a link or two worth clicking. Up until yesterday, that is. Here’s the note I sent Matt: Dear Mr Drudge, I’ve been checking into the Drudge […]
This entry was posted by my co-blogger Dick, a writer and former squadron mate: Cindy Sheehan is breaking my heart. In a prior life, when I was a first lieutenant on my first operational assignment, an aircraft from my wing crashed and made the evening news. Unfortunately, it was over eighteen hours before I could […]
It seems I’ve been neglecting the blog again. So here are three unrelated (and uncalled for) comments: My government plans to celebrate the 4th anniversary of 9/11 with a march and country & western concert. Ah, and you have to register in order to participate (do you have to prove you have a yellow “support […]
Here’s a follow-up on the earlier Sturgis entry: So the deal was to drive a new motorhome from the dealership in Tucson to a campground in Deadwood, in caravan with another company driver towing a fifth-wheel trailer with five Harleys inside. Once there we’d park the motorhome and trailer at a reserved campsite. Over the […]