by admin | May 23, 2010 |
By now, all of you faithful readers, will have been deluged with comment from pundits far smarter than this writer on the newest lies told by yet another aspiring politician. Richard Blumenthal, now running for the Senate seat to be vacated by Chris Dodd in Connecticut got caught red handed (or red lipped as the case may be) by the NY Times fibbing about having served in Viet Nam when, in reality, he only ran the Toys for Tots program for the Marine Reserve in NY. He later admitted to “misspeaking” about the matter, but he was coughing into his sleeve at the time and it didn’t come out to clearly. According to my on-line dictionary, to misspeak means to...
by admin | Mar 27, 2010 |
About sixteen million of our fellow citizens served in the armed forces during WWII. To put that number in perspective, in 1940 the population of the United States was slightly over one hundred thirty two million. My long division is not so hot, but my now antiquated HP12C which never fails me calculates that 12% (give or take) of our total population wore the uniform and served in our defense. Of those serving 416,000 died during the course of hostilities. I’m sure that many others died subsequently as a result of injuries suffered during the war, but I don’t have that number. In any case, millions lived on after the war. They married or didn’t, had...
by admin | Mar 25, 2010 |
We’re rapidly approaching the time of year when millions of men (and a few women) will be scorching millions of pounds of good beef and pork on any manner of back yard cookers. They will use gas grills, $10 Walmart portables, hibachis, home made drums, kettle grills of varied design, dry smokers, wet smokers, fancy gas grills, not so fancy gas grills, charcoal braziers, and even open fires. They will buy brisket flats, whole briskets, pork loin, pork tenderloin, pork shoulder, pork chops, steak of all sorts, ground beef, weiners, baby back ribs, country ribs, St. Louis ribs, ham, chicken cut up forty different ways, and even fish and assorted sea foods. ...
by admin | Feb 22, 2010 |
If you thought you were going to escape the tedium of hearing or reading about my recent “heart episode”…..no such luck. For those of you who don’t already know, I’m now the proud new owner of a new Promus Everolimus Eluting Stent situated about mid stream in my lateral artery descending (LAD) which, in theory, is giving free flow to a stream of fully oxygenated blood through a pipe that was formerly 85% blocked. This makes me a member of a fairly non-exclusive club into which about 1,250,000 members are inducted each year. Although the membership lacks exclusivity, we all share some common characteristics (known in the trade as risk factors). More...
