12 Days of Christmas + Toto
I seem to have missed this when it made the rounds last Christmas. Heard it on a Christmas station today and loved it. Check it out, particularly the end of the song when it morphs into Toto’s “Africa.”
Month: November 2009
This Explains So Much
A friend of the helpful folks over at the American Enterprise Institute went to the considerable trouble of classifying the backgrounds of each past president’s cabinet, going back 100 years. The following graph shows, for each president, what percentage of his cabinet had private sector work experience before entering the cabinet. In other words, what […]
Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years
From the AP newswire: BRUSSELS – A mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed. Rom Houben had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had sunk into an apparent […]
Speaking of the Government's War on Business Owners . . .
In the post below, I noted, “The Dems pursued a strategy of trying to help job seekers by attacking and hamstringing job providers.” Today, Congressman Michael Burgess (from this neck of the woods) had a chance to grill Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and made pretty much the same point: BURGESS: Your own special inspector general […]
Watch the Viral Outbreak of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Economy
You may have already seen this astonishingly informative moving graphic elsewhere. If not, check it out: It is a compelling visual picture of what happens when a government compounds the negative effects of a recession by declaring war on business owners. Such a war is precisely what Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid pursued after taking […]
A Few of the Ways Government Punishes You For Being Financially Responsible
Don't Ink and Drive (the Baseline)
Rick Reilly at ESPN has a very funny overview of the explosion of tattoos among professional athletes. Excerpt: And why would Shawn Marion of the Dallas Mavericks get an ornate Chinese character tattooed down his leg without having a Chinese person in tow? See, Marion thought he was getting his nickname, “The Matrix,” but instead […]
Speaking of Homecoming
To every man or woman in uniform far away from home today . . . to every person who has worn the uniform with honor . . . to every family that has endured the hardship of separation or the pain of loss because someone they love has served . . . On this Veteran’s […]
Homecoming
After about 30 hours on the move, our girl is safely home from Kenya. She’s taller than I remember.
An Actual Valley of Dry Bones
According to legend and folklore the Persian King Cambyses II sent an army of 50,000 men into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C., where they vanished from the face of the earth. For centuries, some speculated the vast army had been swallowed up by the desert in a freak sandstorm. In fact, a hundred years […]