Boom!

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

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:

• 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

• Morgan Freeman is not even out of the hospital, and he’s back in the rumor sheets, this time beause he’s divorcing his wife of 24 years. I guess when you’re God, you live an eventful life.
• Bill Clinton, championing

Boortz, this morning:

Nancy Pelosi has responded to the current Republican debate, which continues in her absence. She is blaming Republicans for failing to “support serious, responsible proposals.” Yeah … wind farms.

Funny he should bring this up. A

I’ve done some additional work on the CSS so that the picture/gfx positioning is a little smoother. Writers should no longer need to play with the short code to get the thing to work.

Turns out, I was right; WPv2.5

• Arianne Balsom is blogging from Antarctica, and McQ is blogging from onboard theUSS Kearsarge. And I didn’t get to go anywhere.
• Tony Blankley has a great bit up at Townhall, today. It’ll be interesting to see