Kentucky Democrats are abuzz over their party’s chances to grab Sen. Jim Bunning’s seat next year. “Bunning is widely considered the most vulnerable incumbent of the cycle,” wrote John McArdle in Roll Call. The Kentucky senate race will doubtless attract national attention next year. It’s big news when a Republican senator seems to be in big trouble in a Red State. Bunning is also feuding with the GOP Senate minority leader, who happens to be Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator....
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Murder Most Foul in Kansas
Do you see how important it is that we frame our speech precisely? If we say it one way, there is no excuse. But, stated the way it now stands, it almost seems (if your views run that way) that Paul Hill might have a case for shooting two unarmed men in the back with a shotgun. (How noble!) – HW, 1995 Andrew Sullivan provides the most elegant (in the mathematical sense) lede: The abortionist, George Tiller, was shot...
Late Night: Midnight Hour
From the Ebony Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles on April 15th 1987 — BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Etta James perform ‘Midnight Hour’:
Greed Is Not Good
In the wake of the recession and what many hope is the end of the greed era on Wall Street, many of the new crop of future business leaders graduating from the Harvard Business School next week, “will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good.” Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed “The M.B.A. Oath,” a voluntary student-led pledge that the goal of a business manager is to “serve the greater good.”...
Cheeseburger and Fries… A Day In the Life of the Prez
President Barack Obama took a lunchtime excursion to Five Guys Burgers today in the midst of NBC News and Brian Williams filming a “day-in-the-life” documentary about the Obama White House. Needless to say the outing has been catching lot’s of buzz in the news and the sphere. That day in the life included a motorcade departure a 12:42 p.m., with one NBC camera crew catching the walk to the car and another on the other side of the limo. The burger-cade...
Texting Issues
I’m not a fan of texting. It’s a time consuming distraction that can cause accidents and even take lives. I haven’t had a cell phone for a few months now and I am not missing it one bit. Even when I did have a cell phone I rarely used the text feature. The NY Times has a piece on texting and the toll it may be taking on teen’s lives: They do it late at night when their parents...
Settling In
Note to readers: I’ve been spending the past few days settling in from my move… again. I’m done now, with the moving that is. I’m settling in, in the Newburyport, Massachusetts area, where I grew up, after a little over 19 years away. It’s good to be home. There’s an irony in all of this moving for me… I left Massachusetts when the economy tanked under Bush Sr, 20 years ago. 20 years later, I’m back where I started, thanks to...
President Obama’s Arlington Memorial Day Speech
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