From all of us here to you. May the holidays and new year find you and loved ones well. We’ll probably interrupt the patriotic embrace of the QVC experience to post over the coming days as well.
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Top Ten Emperors
The CSPAN ‘historians’ list of presidential rankings offers the usual suspects: 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt 4. Theodore Roosevelt 5. Harry S. Truman 6. John F. Kennedy 7. Thomas Jefferson 8. Dwight D. Eisenhower 9. Woodrow Wilson 10. Ronald Reagan As usual, the ineffectual Kennedy is vastly overrated for specious [...]
The Sky Is Falling
Watching the bloated and ineffectual “Lion of Camelot” endorse the Crown Prince pretty much seals the deal from the Stiftung’s point of view. In passing we note: (a) Kennedy’s lack of any real accomplishments over the many years except to stutter and mumble to Roger Mudd in 1980, or (b) the alleged sustained “partying” with [...]
The Human Element Appears To Have Failed Here, But We’d Hate To Condemn An Entire Program Based On A Single Slip Up
Such a cornucopia of riches this week. Liz Cheney’s low budget web ad? When we saw our old friends David Rivkin and Lee Casey (they used to write everything as a threesome) organize conservative lawyers in opposition, we knew ‘it’s so on.’ Adding Starr was a nice touch. Ex-Congressman Massa’s extemporaneous absurdities probably speak more [...]
Bad Vlad?
So he is Time’s “Person of the Year”. Its cache long since dead. Do you honestly read Time (or the bulk of it) anymore? Didn’t think so. It hasn’t ‘re-designed’ itself to mimic Entertainment Weekly entirely but it’s not far behind. We get it, flip through (sometimes) and toss – often in one fluid (we [...]
Happy Festivus to all!
SERENITY NOW!!
Variation on the traditional Fetivus plain pole used in years past, Dogbert. A Paveway came to mind as most ‘pole-like’ without the flaring expanding fins, etc. Happy holidays!
A guided smart bomb with tree ornaments, how cute.