Eric Florack on February 21st, 2018

An ad executive for Facebook speaks up a couple of days ago and says…

When something involving this many people is so clumsy and ineffective towards the stated goal it seems logical to question whether or not it wasn’t back

Continue reading about So What are We Investigating Anyway?

davidl on June 4th, 2016

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, dead at age Seventy Four, from Filip Bondy, New York Daily News:

I was the Vietnam War protestor. My dorm-mate, Joe, was the ROTC recruit. We were good friends at the University of Wisconsin, bound

Continue reading about Cassius Marcellus Clay: RIP (age 74)

Eric Florack on March 18th, 2016

Tonight I am at Malden on Hudson, in New York state. In the morning I’ll drive up to Amsterdam New York outside Albany to deliver the load that I have and then I’ll drive home for the weekend. I’m looking

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Programming Values

Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2016

Tonight I’m just outside Syracuse New York. I have the load of potato chip dip of all things, and I’ll be dropping it off in Queens at about 8 o’clock in the morning. Truck continues to run well, I’m in

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Random Thoughts on Iowa

Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2016

I’m outside of Scranton Pennsylvania tonight is this is written. I’ve been watching the results from Iowa, and listening to a few of the local stations out that way. It’s been a fascinating evening.
Im headed for Syracuse early in

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Nobody Remembers Who Came in Second

Eric Florack on January 28th, 2016

Got the truck back from the shop last night and the thing is raring to go. I haven’t seen this kind of performance out of it for months. I have a huge smile on my face as this is written.

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Things That Work And Things That Don’t

Eric Florack on September 16th, 2015

Like most other people, I’ve been watching with dry amusement the disintegration of the presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Personally, I can’t help but wonder how much of this destruction will be happening with the directives coming from the

Continue reading about The State of the Race… The Democrats…

Today, I started with a visit to the dentist. So, my driving day got off to kind of a late start. Which of course means that I’m probably going to be out until halfway through Saturday at least.

The truck

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Racism, Bias in the Press, And Other Staples of the Left

Eric Florack on May 2nd, 2015

This evening I’m just west of Syracuse New York. Syracuse is known as the Salt City, because of its early salt industry which gave for many years the largest tax revenue of any industry in the state. it’s also the

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Still Holding

Carlisle, PA--After three highly unusual weeks of running to the west it appears as though I will be spending the remainder of this year running east.  That’s a bit more normal for this truck line.  Frankly, we’re experiencing a

Continue reading about The Ramble for 12-19-11: Tebow; Hitch; Iraq Not Over; Role Reversals; Oil And It’s Future, More

Eric Florack on December 12th, 2011

Indianapolis, Indiana--.. As this is written, I am in Indianapolis for the third week in a row.  They’ve got me picking up new trailers out here and ferrying them back to Rochester… an effort to upgrade the entire fleet

Continue reading about The Ramble for 12-12-11

Eric Florack on March 12th, 2009

ramble-ballcapWelcome one and all to the most intense Nightly Read on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the BitsBallcap edition.

Yes, indeed, this object to the right is the genuine article, the Bits Ballcap, the subject of

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: The Bits Ballcap Edition

Eric Florack on January 13th, 2009

ramble-snowtavern

Welcome, my frozen brothers and sisters, to the most intense nightly read in all the sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

More of that global warming stuff, today. Several inches of it, I hear… and the first batch is already falling. The

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: COLD!

Eric Florack on January 7th, 2009

ramble66

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble

A mix of rain and snow over the snow that came down last night… sloppy driving today around here. It can’t decide if

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble:Sloppy Doings

Eric Florack on June 21st, 2007
  • I sympathize, Billy, but I have to wonder about the longer term consequences.  Doesn’t the argument you’re making, sound like the argument being presented against security cameras, and traffic light cameras, being placed in public places?  Also, the way the

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Videotape, Bias And More