Nightly Ramble: Spring Time, A Little Dancing, Is Edwards Faking It? 1984 Claims Questioned, with Good Reason

* Getting warmer around here; we actually made it up to 67 today.  I’m starting to think about hauling the trailer back up here from the storage location, 60 miles south.  The snow was mostly gone, except where the snowplows

That permanent unelected, and largely democrat, government both exists and is at odds with our elected government is really not in dispute.  The question is do you favor the elected or unelected government.

The Washington Post provides a article which

Better  late than never, Fox News is reporting that all charges in the Duke Faux Rape case will be dropped:

The remaining charges against three Duke University lacrosse players originally indicted for rape may be dropped sometime within the

” Part of the President’s problem in Washington is fighting against  permanent bureaucracies that that have  a very different point of view from his. And I think that’s a real problem for the American people.”

Ambassador John Bolton, to Jon

Two points of many from Doctor Sowell today: 

Amid all the media hysteria over the price of gasoline and the profits of “Big Oil,” one simple fact has been repeatedly overlooked: The oil companies’ earnings are just under 10 percent

The local fish wrapper published this column by Kathleen Parker today, “death by bangs:”

At least he’s still got good hair.

    Otherwise, it may be over for John Edwards, thanks to a resurrected video of him primping, too

Maybe someone can explain this to me. Al Gore shows up to Congerss yesterday, after demanding special treatment, he then preaches about how we’re all supposedly killing the planet.

 When asked if he’s going to pledge to change his ways

You need to listen to Fred Thompson on Laura Ingraham’s show yesterday.

I’m starting to think we have a winner, here.

The rapidly diminishing credibility of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign took another nose dive yesterday, when the creator of the “1984” parody ad was exposed by none other than Arianna Huffington. ABC News did itself no credit by reporting Huffington’s story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Character actor Calvert DeForest, best known for his dead-pan appearances as the pudgy, bespectacled everyman Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night TV show, has died at age 85.

DeForest died on Monday at Good Samaritan

* The Music: Today is the birthday of Johan Sebastian Bach. So, today’s choice is a natural: Switched On Bach. Recorded by Walter Carlos, who later became Wendy Carlos (I suppose we are dealing with Todd Rundgren called “the Tourtured

With a nod of thanks to Warren Zevon, who, I think would approve.

Shadows are falling and I’m running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn’t mean I love you any

Lewis Fein, Cathy’s World:

We lost Cathy at 2:05 PM today. May her memory last, her family persevere and her friends endure this terrible loss. We’ll all have more to write shortly, but for now I’d like to truly

The Washington Post is all excited because Patrick Fritzgerald, he of the Wilson affair fame, got rated.  Wow. Dan Eggen and John Solomon report:

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had “not distinguished themselves” on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right,” has died of a heart attack at age 69, his family said on Wednesday.

Ingram,