Today’s Railfan Photo

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You’re sitting in CSX’s Frontier Yard, just east of Buffalo at the Sloan town line. This is a popular spot for crews to change. Since crew changes require stopped trains, you can often get

One rather gets the impression that this is going to be a stormy week.  And I’m not talking about the weather.  So let’s spend a moment together in the quiet before the storm:

• There’s a lot more info coming in

PARIS (AP) — Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, has died. He was 84.Wearing white face paint, soft shoes and

Because the RSS is fouled up for some reason, I went looking for other RSS possibilities.

I finally stumbled across FeedBurner.

Actually, I had it running on the old site, and putting it up for the new one, kind of

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. – George Clooney and a companion were injured on Friday when their motorcycle collided with a car on a narrow road across the Hudson River from New York City.

Clooney suffered a broken rib and scrapes while

From Little Green Footballs:

Sick, sick, sick. Before leaving Iran today, thug-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the American people want to hear different views about the world.

You know — antisemitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamic supremacist views. And sadly, he’s not wrong;

That’s one thing, that you can say about the New York Times; you only have to hit the gray lady upside the head with a 2*4, five or six hundred times over the period of a couple of weeks to

Looking through my mailbox this morning, it has become clear to me why the internet is slower than it should be…

• Dear Bank of America Customer…. (I’m not, now, nor have I ever been a Bank of America customer)
• A

For quite a while, conservatives have embraced an annoying strategy — trawl through liberal comments sections in the hopes of finding intemperate remarks. The right then takes these comments to “prove” that the left is made up of unhinged radicals.

I haven’t said much about this business in Jena, save taking Jesse Jackson to task for his response, and standing aghast once again at how quickly the black poverty  industry can spring into action when something like this pops up.

• The day is already longer than usual… We’ve got another cat admitted at the vet… a serious respiratory infection.  After losing Ray just a few weeks ago, this I didn’t need… to say nothing of the bills involved. (Sigh)
• James

In a mind boggling move which defies common sense and all logic, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has ordered the state Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver licenses to illegal aliens.

Nina Bernstien, New York Times, has the

COALITION FORCES ARREST IRANIAN QUDS FORCE OFFICER

Posted: 20 Sep 2007 06:27 AM GMT-06:00

COALITION FORCES ARREST IRANIAN QUDS FORCE OFFICER

Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on “Bewitched” and Bernice on “Designing Women,” has died. She was 81.Ghostley died Friday at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer

McQ has a few pertinent thoughts about Al-Qaida. eight points to an article on the strategy page about how kind as possible problems, their leadership, and their future.  Perhaps it would be worth going and reading the article, before