Nightly Ramble: Comments on Year’s End

I begin to think that my body is reacting out of habit. I woke up this morning with a headache that would kill most mortals, my tongue had gone cashmere, my stomach was threatening a violent rejection of anything resembling

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Last day of the year and all of that. We may or may not go out tonight to capture some photographs of fireworks

A great, great writeup in the Wall Street Journal, today, by Holman Jenkins.

Like all regulatory schemes, Congress’s hallowed Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules froze in place a conception of the auto industry as it appeared to the simple

Been doing a lot of stuff in the background today.

Updated a few plugins, tape backups, added some functionality, did some database cleaning.

Out of all of that, about the only thing you’ll see… you may not even have noticed…

OTB’s James Joyner says he’s got a new daughter. He’s got pics up, too.

Many congrats, James. Now at the very least, you’ve got another reason to party tonight.

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Nearly the last one of the year. A slower day than some, so tonight’s ramble through the headlines will be a shorter

Well, the question I asked a while ago, about who would want to be named to the Senate by Blago while he’s under criminal investigation, would seem to have been answered…

The answer is: ,former Illinois Atty General Roland Burris.

Jules Crittenden, today, in a great and extended article:

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants “war to the bitter end.” Hamas is on the run, its terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good,

Word on the wire is that Freddie Hubbard has passed on. The LA Times blog has it this way:

Freddie Hubbard died today at Sherman Oaks Hospital as a result of a heart attack suffered in late November. His name

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I ended up having to go into work today and tomorrow, and so we will see a Nightly Ramble for both those days. We’ll

By way of  Glenn Reynolds I note an interesting article in the DC Examiner, today:

It appears that among the many celebrity victims of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer resigned earlier

There is a scene in Fred Zinnemann’s great film, “High Noon” (1952), in which Will Kane (Gary Cooper) loses his head in a bar room. Desperate for help against the bad guys, he slugs some dink who is standing around

Last night, we had a database server outage.

Early this morning, we had not one, but two web server failures. I’m unclear on how much downtime each of these failures caused, frankly.

On both occasions, the IX folks were responsive.

The LA Times:

Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as “Let It Rain” and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in