To use an aviation analogy, we have turned from the downwind vector and are now in mid-approach "base leg" on this policy reform flight prior to turning 90 degrees into the turbulent fall 2009 headwinds of final approach and (crash?) landing of "health care reform" legislation. I will add a fe… Read full post »

FROM "BIRTHERS" TO "DEATHERS"

Sometimes you just have laugh, notwithstanding the lack of actual humor in the circumstance. I recently had my bit of Photoshop fun with this inane "Birther" thing (regarding people who continue to increasingly insanely claim that Barack Obama was not really born in Ha… Read full post »

Tapes Reveal Nixon Pro-Mixed Race Abortions

Tape recordings of former US President Richard Nixon have revealed that he believed abortion was "necessary" in mixed race pregnancies.

Richard Nixon is the only president in history to resign

Nixon's bizarre comments are contained in hundre… Read full post »

"I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country."

- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital on May… Read full post »

I just watched the most fascinating CBS "60 Minutes" segment: "Eyewitness: How accurate is visual memory?"

Back about 20 years ago, I was minding my own business driving in downtown Knoxville TN where I lived at the time, running some errands. I pulled up to the intersection at a one-way N-S… Read full post »

Dr. Julian Zelizer of Princeton just wrote an OpEd on CNN.com calling for congressional hearings into the current financial meltdown. I subsequently sent him this email:

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I already have several blogs. One of them serious, the others more flippant. Well, hello from Vegas: "Seven Deadly Sins, One Convenient Location!" (actual I-15 billboard)

Below, my main squeeze of 35 years. Shot that last week over at Green Valley Ranch casino as we were about… Read full post »