Along with Marvin Gaye’s rendition of the national anthem at the 1983 All-Star game, this is the clip that makes me feel best about being an American. Wow! Wow, what an honor! The White House Correspondents’ dinner. To actually — to sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be …
Archives for April 2010
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
The amount of thought going into this idea is self-evident: Van Cleave said one proposed bill would allow no one but an on-duty officer doing undercover work to drink alcohol while carrying a concealed weapon. The other bill will say that anyone can carry a concealed gun and drink if they wish, “as long as …
Failing Up
Once you are deemed a serious person, there is literally no mistake too big to keep people in DC from listening to you: Robert Rubin is poisoning Washington again. The former Treasury Secretary who presided over the nearly-fatal deregulation of the financial industry — then made $126 million nearly killing Citigroup — had been keeping …
Just Shoot Me
I see Randy Scheunemann posted another idiotic message to Sarah Palin’s facebook page, so I guess we all know what the topic of discussion will be Sunday morning.
Open Thread
Pens hockey tonight. BTW- a quick update on the bird feeder obsession. I’m now up to four feeders- one in front and three in the back, and I have quite a chirpy posse these days. My latest addition was one like this that I filled with sunflower seeds, and the cardinals are all over it. …
Wait For the Seamless Transition
Here we go: Federal and state officials criticized BP on Friday for what they said was an inadequate response to the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They urged the oil company to do more to stop a leaking undersea oil well 50 miles offshore as floating crude oil imperiled the fragile marshes …
Hard Times
I guess the NY Times has finally run out of gangster bankster sob stories and now is profiling the financial woes of actual gangsters: This is Joe DeFede, a retired New York gangster who oversaw the rackets in the city’s garment district in the 1990s, a perch that provided him with a Cadillac, a driver, …