If it wasn’t before 11am, this would make for a great drinking game:
Freedom
Liberty
Founders
Independence
Ryan’s speech just ended. His last word was “freedom.”
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CPAC, some number
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
CPAC, IV
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently, Ron Paul (or Howard Roark) won the internal Republican debate. Individual liberty, “enduring principles of our founding,” pursuit of self-interest or some such thing. Now, Ryan is railing against “paper money.” At least the ubiquitous Reagan name-drops have seemingly been replaced by shout-outs to “the Founders.”
CPAC, III
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was inevitable. The session has been open for 15 minutes and we’ve already have our first Democrats = Marx comparison, courtesy Paul Ryan. Now I think he’s saying the Dems are turning us all into wards of the state or something.
Old Millie?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My old Saturn served me well for the past 4+ years, but it was very definitely time to find a new ride. Mostly searched for Dodge Neons, Chevy Cobalts, Ford Focus’s and one Nissan Sentra (my boss’s mother’s car), but then stumbled on this last Wednesday night. Amazingly, it cost less than some [...]
Learning to Read
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Fierce Discontent, Bowling Alone, insomnia, James Weaver, No Ordinary Time, reading, Richard Hofstadter, Skirmisher, Summer for the Gods, The Populist Persuasion, The Spirit of Community, The Wisdom of Crowds on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I rarely make New Years resolutions, at least not consciously. The statistics are just too daunting… most people fail by early February and I’m not so sure failure is the best way to start off a new year. So, this is not a New Year’s Resolution. This is simply spelling out [...]
My second intended invention (after the time machine)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged focus group, Frank Luntz, inventions, time machine on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think I want a Frank Luntz-style focus group dial to use in everyday life.
The only thing better than L.A. is getting here
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged air sickness, air travel, BWI, flight delay, Hyatt, Los Angeles, United, USAirways on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
File this under: Things that should’ve been predictable.*
A national conference in L.A., an 8am meeting on Wednesday, and a flight scheduled to take off from BWI at 7pm on Tuesday. Now, taking into account the time change, that should put me in LA at 9:30pm – right? So, my ticket says US Airways, and I [...]
Yolanda Renee King
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda Renee King on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s just a small blurb in the media today: Martin Luther King III, 50, became a father. His daughter, Yolanda Renee King (named for his sister who passed away last year) was born May 25. Wouldn’t be such an interesting story, except that this is the first, and given the ages of the living King [...]
It still ain’t the Walker Center
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Days Inn, Walker Center, work travel on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back to the Eastern Shore, staying at the same Days Inn for the night. I swear, they stuck me in the same room as the last time, with the same view of the parking lot (which is made even better by the dreary weather outside… if I’m not mistaken, it’s now been raining since [...]
Jiminy Christmas!
Posted in Top, Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Christmas haters, Christmas music, Christmas trees, Halloween, holidays, neo-yuppies on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It might be 228 days until Christmas, but really only 114 days until Christmas season. Yeah, I’m that person who breaks out the Christmas music and decorations in early September (unless the impossible occurs, and the Orioles are actually in contention, in which case Christmas season bumps back to the end of baseball season.) [...]
