Nightly Ramble: The “When Cows Fly” Edition

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This is the “When Cows Fly” edition

• So, the Gloved One is now the Buried One. Someone, and I don’t know who, on Twitter last

Wacko Jacko, Michael Jackson; is to buried today    Jammie Wearing Fool notes the media Wacko Jacko overloadf, ”It Was An Orgy of Glorification‘

After the first day or so of the Michael Jackson coverage I felt the same

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, opines:

SO, TECHNICALLY, IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CALL THE PLAN “SOPHOMORIC:” “In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of

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This is the Root Beer Edition

• Someone noticed: Amusing that BitsBlog managed to make The New York Times over the weekend

Fox News is reporting:

Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died.

McNamara, 93, died at home in his sleep Monday morning, his wife Diana told The Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some time.

Known

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

I’ve been noting some page resolution times that are longer than I’d like to see.

To get the performance where it belongs, I’ll be moving BitsBlog to another, more powerful server sometime in the next few weeks. When, I don’t

Word from Channel 4 (NBC)  in the DC area

D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday night and charged with stalking a woman, police said.

The United States Park Police said Barry was arrested in Washington after

Two hundred and thirty-three years ago, the men of the Second Continental Congress made a bold gesture as they sought to uncleave themselves from their ties with Great Britain.  A gesture intended to convey that they were serious about the

Watching fireworks at Henrietta ny

Fox News is reporting:

DEVELOPING: Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was killed Saturday in a shooting in Nashville.

A medical examiner confirmed to local FOX affiliate WZTV that McNair was found dead after police responded to a shooting in the

I notice, by way of Fox news and a few other places, that both John McCain and President Obama have delivered speeches on this Fourth of July, that sound on similar themes.

I suppose these kind of platitudes are to

The media, the left, (but I repeat myself ) and the Rockefeller Republicans (there I go repeating myself again ) are all majorly busy trying to come up with  “the answer” as regards Gov Sarah Palin’s announced resignation yesterday.  It

Sarah Palin has resigned as governor of Alaska, effective 25 July.   The Anchoress has an excellent round up.   Best of luck Sarah.

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This is the “Getaway” Edtion

• We forgive you already. Not Git…. Over at The Conservative Reader Art Smith discusses Mark Sanford. Ya