Channeling her inner Martha Stewart.

I know that too Doug even though the current group seems reconstituted with new voices. Given that the Crown story has not been widely reported, a cite would have been appropriate. I make (rare) leaps of free association that don’t translate well if at all – confusing my voice with that of the Desert Rat is not a likely scenario.

Any more than my getting to the end of this day within spitting distance of sobriety. I prepared a pressure-cooked flank steak with boiled vegetables to be consumed with a bottle of spiced rum.

Tomorrow is another day.

The Sowell piece nails the psychology of immaturity. My critiques of Congress have (usually, when I remember) been prefaced by some acknowledgment of mistakes tempering the steel of life and the process. My point is the soft version of Mika’s occasional message – we can and must do much better.

Funny how the pain always starts in the wallet. The family took huge hits from two angles. One year almost to the day after scrounging up a second life savings, I took a huge hit just a few years out from retirement. And now we’re hearing nonsense about a second stimulus package, bankrupting coal, the new “right” to health care, and on it goes. This phase of the battle is about over.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech (1961)

A friend of mine once said, “There’s a lot of good you can do in the world as long as you don’t worry about who’s getting the credit.”

That would be:
Ronald Wilson Reagan

At one time, no one would have believed…