Nightly Ramble: Has It Occurred to Anyone….

• Has it occurred to anyone at the UAW, that job security wouldn’t be an issue if their wage and benefit demands were not so ridiculous?
• Has occurred to anyone at Columbia, that what they did by allowing the Iranian nutjob

• The day is already longer than usual… We’ve got another cat admitted at the vet… a serious respiratory infection.  After losing Ray just a few weeks ago, this I didn’t need… to say nothing of the bills involved. (Sigh)
• James

We do get caught up in the day to day… Far more than is good for us, I think.  Both Martin, and Billy, send us reminders of that, today.  Personally, I owe thanks to both of them, for

• Someone whose judgments I value told me here just recently, that it’s not how many hits you’re getting that really matters to the stature of a blog, but who is reading. I’m starting to understand what he meant. The recent

• They’re calling for ten days of relatively dry weather with Thomson the seventies to the eighties, around here.  Not at all unusual, and it looks like we may be able to get some fall camping in.
• Why is it that

This is post 7100. That’s right, 7100 posts, officially, since BitsBlog started. Even GZipped, it comes out around 300mb. A lot of writing, these past 6 and a half years. OK, let’s get to it.

• It amazes me, Billy,

• The BitsBlog site continues to run well…  and that’s good, because frankly I don’t think I have the strength left to do that all over again, just now.  Saturday morning was the first time I actually felt human in several

In response to the flurry of bumper sticker requests, lately, I thought I’d make one of my own;

Hillary Clinton: The choice of Norman Hsu

Michelle Malkin has more on the sordid tale of Hilly Hsu

An interesting scenario has popped up over at Little Green Footballs which, I will quote to you in its entirety, since it’s a short one:

Mahir Sherif, attorney for Nuradin Abdi (who pleaded guilty in Ohio yesterday to plotting a

HAMLIN, Pa.  —AP- Lightning can strike twice. Just ask Don Frick.

Frick said he survived his second lightning strike Friday — 27 years to the day of his first bout with a bolt — and emerged a bit shaken with

The Music: 100 Proof, Aged i Soul; Somebody’s been sleeping in my bed.

The album is great late 60’s soul. Put together by Motown greats Holland- Dozier- Holland, and signed to the “Hot Wax” label… (One of two such labels

* It is more than passing strange to me, and should be to you, that one of the people who is running for president, and claims to be a conservative, has a legislative output, the high points of which match

The Music: Chuck Mangione’s “Freinds and Love” concert, recorded here in Rochester at the Eastman Theatre, 1970. The single it came off of that album, was called “Hill Where The Lord Hides”, which is to this day one of

* OK, I admit it; I’ve been kinda wrapped up in the Sabres the last few months.  And yes, I’m disappointed they didn’t win, this afternoon. and I’m not going to lay the blame for the loss on the officiating.

The majority of this evening’s ramble is going to be taken up with the myth called “immigration reform”.

First allow me to say that just because the word reform is attached to it does not automatically mean it is advantageous.