Beck Back

I was wondering, Billy.
The only reason I didn’t call you was because I checked my tick sheet and your name came up a year ago. So, I kinda figured…

Kudos to John Hawkins.
I’ve spent some time the last few days tossing notes together for this sort of post, but Hawkins beat me to it:

…the GOP absolutely cannot build a successful political party around “moderates.”

Why is that

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• This is the time of year when I spend time reconsidering actually WRITING my cookbook, called “365 Uses for a Used Thanksgiving Turkey”. I’ve

It must be, because…

The Lions lost again today.

Ummm… 47 to 10.

That’s a high school Basketball score… which is fitting because it appears to me that the local high school basketball team could beat the Lions at football.

The Thanksgiving tradition in

At some point, someone’s going to figure out that Islam is always at the center of these kind of attacks.

Can we call radical Islam the real enemy, yet, without being pilloried for it?

BitsBlog system upgrade to WordPress v2.6.5 is complete.

No errors, no problems apparent.

Just a few minor bugfixes in this upgrade, and a few code changes for security at the Linux level. Since this blog runs on a Windows server,

Britt Hume a couple nights ago:

A traditional Thanksgiving meal between two elementary schools in Claremont, California, has parents in an uproar over costumes.
The kindergarteners have long celebrated the holiday by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and

A happy Birthday to Billy Beck. Have a good one today, man… and talk to Priss about the present we got you…

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• First, some disturbing news about Barbara Bush, who is in the hospital. Prayers and good thoughts her way.
• We’re

I’ve said for years tickets are not about making safe the public, they’re about making money for the state. There’s never been more solid proof than what is going on in NYC just now… per WCBS:

You may have

Decided to share some photography my older boy put together. He’s becoming rather good at this kind of thing. As usual, drill the pic twice to get full size.

This pic is taken at one of our favorite railfanning spots,

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Only one more shopping day until Black Friday. Good gosh, it’s November, already? I must be getting old; this stuff is going faster than

One of the updates I did last night, should have been simple enough… the Widget Cache code got updated by it’s author. Apparently, that update caused some strange interactions with the database. I’ve disabled it until I figure out what’s