Nightly Ramble: The WhiteBoard Edition

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This is the White Board Edition

• Iran: I’ve not commented much on Iranian election, mostly because the thing was breaking so fast

From feedback, I recrive word that yesterday was the birthday of Alois Alzheimer, German psychologist and neuropathologist, the guy who first identified what is today called Alzheimer’s disease. He was born today in 1864.

I actually had it on my

• @melissatweets Sorry, melissa… I'm with @donsurber on this one.  #
• @melissatweets no question it has it's place… but not if you're going to get personal.  #
• @melissatweets remember, this is the same site that urged people

Comes McPhillips:

What Victor Davis Hanson says about David Letterman et al.

Yeah, Letterman, somewhere along the line, grew increasingly unhinged off the political side of his stale late-night mess. I’m not a Palin fan (liked her initially, respect

We’ve got the update in for the latest version of WordPress, v2.8.  All seems well.

Let me know via feedback if you see anything amiss.

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This is the First Dept Edition

• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for

WordPress has announced version 2.8 is up.

This is a major upgrade, as I gather it.  We’ll be running the upgrade sometime after about 8pm tonight, or over the weekend, depending on how happy I am with the state of

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This is the “Bit’sBar” edition.

Lots going on tonight. Pour yourself a cold one, and let’s get to it.

• A tale of

I commented the other day, about Billy Beck’s writing on the anniversary of his father’s death.  As I told him offline, in other correspondence, he has the (I think, rare) gift for casting the thoughts surrounding those events into

No question what the biggest story yesterday was.

The Biggest story yesterday was an 88 year old nutbag walking into the Holocaust museum in DC and opening up with a long gun. Not suprisingly, the lone gunman was a Neo-Nazi.

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This is the Sporting Goods Edition

• Letterman smear? Of a 14 year old, no less? And of course it’s OK if they’re

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• Disgusted: I see Ed Whalen has apologized. It’s my considered opinion he was not in the wrong and had nothing to apologize for, and

There’s been much fury and spittle being passed back and forth recently regarding the outing of “Publius”… his real name and position being revealed, by Ed Whelan over at National Review, incidental to an argument over the nomination of

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler

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This is the “Proposal” Edition

• Spin City: You can be reasonably assured of the Republicans pointing up the failure of the so-called