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Ah!  I’m finally back home, which is always the place I like best.  I’ve been trying to catch up on a week’s worth of missed political reading and am finding that it just can’t be done.  I’m starting afresh, as if the past week never happened.  I know bits and pieces, of course (the Dems [...]

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As you may have gathered from my reference to Disneyland the other day, we’ve been visiting Southern California, where we have family.  (Very nice family, I might add.)  In addition to Disneyland and the family stuff, my husband took my star struck almost-teen daughter to the Grove Shopping Center, because she might see a star [...]

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I caught teeny bits of the Tiger Woods apology, and was unimpressed.  It was, to my mind, a canned speech.  If I was in his shoes and was intent on making a real apology, it would have gone something like this:
Saying I’m a sex addict is a cop-out.  I am, simply, weak.  I used all [...]

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If you have info about the Austin plane crash, feel free to share it here.

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We’re at Disneyland, having a wonderful time. Blogging is impossible in the Magic Kingdom. I hope that whatever you’re doing today is equally enjoyable.

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I’m not anywhere my computer and, with the best will in the world, I cannot blog on my iPhone. We’re also listening to Sondheim’s Into The Woods while we drive, and it’s messing with my brain waves. Sondheim has his moments, but I’m not a fan. I find his work busy, but without pleasure. I’m [...]

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If you haven’t seen Andrew Klavan’s latest offering, you must.  I’ve always liked Klavan, but he’s really hitting his stride lately.
Hat tip:  Lulu

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[Posted earlier and moved to the top, because momentum is building.]
Are Bay Area conservatives willing to emerge from their seclusion?  Bay Area Patriots (”BAP”) certainly hopes so.  On Sunday, March 7, 2010, in Mill Valley, California, BAP is hosting a Conservative Groupa-Palooza that BAP hopes will be the largest gathering to date of that beleaguered [...]

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In my younger days, I could have danced all night.  Now that I’m a big rickety, about 2 hours let me ready to call it a night.  But what fun I had!
This morning, as it’s Saturday, is devoted to family concerns and this afternoon, because it’s February in these United States, is devoted to the [...]

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I’m in a seriously foul mood.  Several years ago, I read that high end designers were phasing out petite clothes.  That didn’t bug me, because I don’t wear high end clothes.  I wear jeans, and simple shirts.
But what starts at the top, trickles down.  The stores have now done two things:  they’ve either stopped stocking [...]

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Bill Whittle’s videos are wonderful.  This one praises and explains the Tea Party movement, and then says that the Republicans should shape their goals to match Tea Party goals, ensuring electoral victory, rather than allowing the Tea Party to become a full-fledged competitor, dividing conservative votes, and ensuring a conservative loss at the polls.  I [...]

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Rob Miller, who blogs at the stellar JoshuaPundit (and is a fellow member of the Watcher’s Council) had a mild heart attack on Monday, followed by surgery.  His wife reports that he’s doing well and, while that alone is a reason for thanks, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be sending him our thoughts and [...]

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Most if not all of us that follow and participate in the Bookworm Room agree that our country is in very serious trouble. Most of us would also agree that government is a cesspool of profligate waste.
So, I would like to position us as solution providers. Can we put our heads together and, assuming that [...]

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GMail was kind enough to have its server scan my mail, note its political content, and suggest that I visit a “support Barbara Boxer” website urging me to help defeat “Tea Baggers.”  As you’ve noticed, that is now the only term by which the Democratic party refers to this grassroots collection of angry Independents and [...]

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I think I’m going to take a break from thinking for a while.  Thanks, Bookworm, for letting me share this blog with you and thanks to all who commented and made me feel like the thoughts were worth expressing.

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I’m afraid we in the Bookwormroom underestimate Obama.  We believe he is hopeless away from his teleprompters, but he did quite well in an unscripted (if ever-so-polite) exchange with the Republicans.   We think he can’t move to the middle, but he supported Bernanke, shifted his foreign policy away from the positions of his most extreme followers and [...]

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I’ve had four tabs open in my browser all day, and want to pass them along to you before they get lost.
The first two are from England, and touch upon two issues I often raise here:  the reasonable accommodations a democracy has to make for minorities and the fact that Britain is becoming Germany, cir. [...]

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Congratulations to jlibson, who was the only one to pick the Saints in the Bookwormroom poll.  No prize, but a years worth of bragging rights to put to use at any time.  And congratuations to the Saints, for a storybook ending to a feel-good story.

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Let’s see who can come closest to predicting the winner and final score of the Super Bowl.  The winner gets . . . well, actually nothing except the title of the Bookwormroom’s top prognosticator and a whole year’s worth of bragging rights.  I’ll start by saying Indy wins by a score of 34-24.  What’s your [...]

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This is not a post in which I opine.  Instead, I’m seeking your opinions about a question that’s been bedeviling me for some time.  What made it pop into my mind is a mass of statistics that Randall Hoven assembled regarding the percentage of gays in the American population.  As always with Hoven’s data, there’s [...]

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Here’s a riddle for you:  When do you read a Krauthammer column that’s not good?  When you read one that’s brilliant.  What I like so much about this most recent column is the way in which Krauthammer zeroes in on the whole liberal mindset:  the ordinary people are idiots and avowed liberals conservatives are evil.  [...]

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We spend a lot of time on this blog critizing Hollywood for it’s one-sided view of things, even in fiction (see Bookworm’s post on Avatar for a recent example).  So I must give credit where credit is due.  CSI Miami this week started with a guy about to face the electric chair, when he’s given a short [...]

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As regular readers know, I like bumper stickers and talk about them regularly.  But every now and then one will bring me up short.  Like today in the parking lot — “Senior for Peace”  For the life of me I couldn’t imagine the thought process behind spending good money to buy this sticker and put [...]

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My deepest apologies for my blog silence today.  (And thank goodness DQ stepped in with one of his great observations.)  The fact is that I’ve been in perpetual motion today.  I’ve added a few gray hairs, but that’s about all I have to show for the day.
I will be back much later tonight or, more [...]

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I don’t have a lot to say about the “retarded” comment by Rahm Emanuel or Sarah Palin’s response, although she certainly has every right to be especially offended.  My question is, if a Republican made the comment, would he keep his job, and if a Republican made the comment would Palin and other Republicans be [...]

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