BO’s Camelot

What is the the only aspect of the legendary Camelot?   Well that is was a legend.   The Kennedy adminstration, which in the real world is remembered for the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis and American combat forces in

I think we now have a working definition of the word “arrogance”.  Barack Obama, it seems, is off on vacation. To my memory this has always been at least risky, and in reality, deadly to presidential candidates.  To my

Awoke this morning to perhaps one of the loudest thunderstorms I’d ever heard in my life.

My first thought was for the computers, but as I listened, I realized I needn’t worry much.  I live perhaps 10 miles south of

Russia invaded Georgia. John McCain was prompt to recognize the Russian aggression and to condemn it. Meanwhile BO seems unable to distinguish between being invaded and be the invader. I doubt BO even knows where Georgia is. View the video:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes who, along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black artists in the early 1970s, died in Memphis on Sunday, his friend and former manager,

It could fairly be said we’ve been getting a lot of rain around here. A VERY rainy summer.  But that has it’s beauties, too.

A rainbow captured on 08-09-08, Greece NY

I drive a Buick.

Yes, I’m quite aware that the stereotype places me in Senior Citizen range.  But I’m 51.

The Buick I drive is a ’04 Rainier.  Yes, the dreaded and much maligned SUV is my main ride. “Why

Little Green Footballs:

Even as John Edwards was trying to appear sincere and apologetic, behind the scenes he was cynically attempting to manipulate the media in order to minimize the damage. He’s reportedly furious with ABC News for breaking the

… MoDo starts caling Edwards “Breck GIrl”.

No, Rielie, really she did.

The stunning admission Edwards made to ABC’s Bob Woodruff, and in a written statement from Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon, was that he’s a narcissist.

Even in confessing

Kaus:

A paternity test seems inevitable, no? [Update: Edwards has volunteered to take one. Make sure it’s not Mudcat Saunders who gets the DNA from the kid.] If Edwards wanted to snake out of this scandal, the cunning

Bernie Mac has died in Chicago, at age 50.  The Chicago Tribune reports:

Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.

Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week

There’s a fair amount of defense being put up for Edwards this morning, most of it knee-jerkish. One of the points of defense is that supposedly the National Enquirer got the ‘love child aspect wrong.

Me at OTB just now:

John Edwards has finally admittted to having an extra-marital affair with Rielle Hunter.  Comments: one the National Enquirer was right and; two, the MSM was in denial.  Memorandum has a flock of links.

Addendum I: (Bit) John Hawkins probably has

• 08-08-08. Not sure it means anything, but it’s interesting.
• Just about mid-summer. The Telegraph reports what I told you about at about mid-spring would happen at Mid-summer: The great oil Bubble has burst.
  

  The market’s conviction that oil prices were

The subject of Negative Campaigns came up at OTB yesterday.

I tell James:

There are some issues one cannot play Pollyanna over. As an example, and at the risk of tossing this thing down a subthread, let’s run a quote