Sorry about not posting a front page yesterday. Part of it was being sick; part of it was getting ready for the debate last night, and I just ran out of time to do it.
But I have a fairly newsy one for you this afternoon:
Obama Delays Trip as Report Aids Final Push on Health Care — Obama catches a break for once on this thing, with a CBO report showing significant cost savings.
Sanford agrees to pay $74,000 fine, ends ethics case — Finally, after all of the turn-of-the-screw ethics stories we’ve seen, one actually worthy of the front page (and almost lede-worthy): A conclusion to this interminable flap.
New US-Russia nuclear deal ‘soon’ says Hillary Clinton — Remember the Russians? They’re still out there, and they’ve still got nukes, which makes this important.
SC Lawmakers Go All Night on Abortion Issue — Personally, I find the description of what happened and is happening a little unclear in this AP story, but it seems that lawmakers have contrived to find a way to drag out the Kulturkampf battle.
‘Davy Crockett’ and ‘Daniel Boone’ BOTH die at once — If you’re too young to know who Fess Parker was, I have no sympathy for you. He died today at age 85
Columbia Water Tastes Best — Just a nice talker, a water-cooler story that’s actually about water.
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By the way, you young folks who listen to the “Ballad of Davy Crockett” above and find yourself counting the racist references (say, to “redskin varmints”), just consider it a history lesson (not so much about the American frontier as about American popular music in 1955).
I will say that I don’t think they ever played those verses on the TV show, because they’re new to me…
Ah, for the good old days, when the USA was populated exclusively by white men of European descent (any others who happened to be there were either servants or outlets for testosterone driven sex or violence, and need not be counted as relevant).
Isn’t “white mean of European descent” kind of redundant?
Or am I imposing the style standards of the Oppressor over the more free-form, say-what-you-feel styles of women of the female persuasion?
And yes, I was being intentionally redundant there…
… also, Karen, I think I detected a lack of sympathy on your part there toward those of us who are afflicted with testosterone. We can’t help it. That’s the way the Good Lord made us. If we ain’t lovin’, we gotta be fightin’… an’ droppin’ Gs, left and right…
There are whites–Caucasians–living in Asia–Persians, for one.
There are black Europeans, too–Moorish ancestry for one–maybe the Roma…
and Brad–you sound like Sanford! At least when I read it. Don’t joke about it, now. Please be careful–you could go McMaster on us!
I am reminded (inevitably) of what Patrick O’Brian wrote of his hero Jack Aubrey:
or “He loved a bottle; he loved a wrench.”
The Lexington County version.