Eric Florack on May 13th, 2005

Watcher of Weasels notes the bit with the plane in DC’s airspace yesterday, and suggests this may be a fairly solid case against the use of the wet dream of the 1963 world’s fair…. flying cars.

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2005

Chuck at YOU BIG MOUTH YOU passes along information about a Girl Scout troop delivering cookes to Sailors on station in Singapore, aboard the USS SAFEGUARD.

A great story.

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2005

WSB in Atlanta has the base closure story up, with the list.

I’d like a bit of time to study it before I comment at length… but off the top, the only two I have major complaints about are the

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2005

Richard Pryor via The Quotations Page:

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, “I wanna grow up and be a critic.”

It strikes me in reading this quote that this is exactly the role that

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Eric Florack on May 13th, 2005

Now that Bolton’s out onto the floor for a vote, I have some thoughts to add.

Look, let’s call this resistance to Bolton going to the UN what it is; A political game, called ‘stall and smear’… a game

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