Archive for January, 2009

GOP Spokesman…

Rush Limbaugh. I kind of like the sound of that. Kind of reminds me of this movie I once saw… (A Face in the Crowd – 1957)

Sen. Murray to introduce bill to expanding domesting partnership rights w/video

Huh!  Kind of a surprise to me that we are going into this territory but… ok!  Looks like the expansion goes into some area’s of pensions and according to what I gather, shores up some of the previous legislation.  Look for the coming minority frenzy and concerted letters to republican constituent districts (have you noticed [...]

Note to the Herald.

There is a reason newspapers are dropping like flies.  And today’s editorial is one of them: The urge to “improve” on the standard version of our national anthem is apparently difficult for a lot of musicians to resist. To this we say, “Try harder.” Perhaps the most egregious example of the “star-mangled” banner was Rosanne [...]

Movie Review: Gran Torino

I told a friend I might go see Clint Eastwood’s new movie Gran Torino and she told me, “It’s a Clint Eastwood movie.  You can’t go wrong”.  So I reminded her about ‘Every Which Way But Loose”. (Zing!)  But despite Eastwood having the honor of a long career in spaghetti westerns and really bad movies [...]

Special Drinking Liberally Inauguration Party Review (and how cheap technology from Big Lots saved my ass)

First off, the Drinking Liberally in the Tri-Cities Inauguration Party was nothing less than a complete success.  It was by far more than anyone who was involved in putting it together expected.  Being a potluck sort of event, usually there is quite a bit of food, but you would never believe how much food showed [...]