Archive for April, 2008
“screw ‘em”
“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.” Hillary Clinton, in 1995, talking to her husband about working-class Democrats. (5 Things at salon.com)
Yep … that’s the same Hillary Clinton who is now out throwing back a shot [...]
send the Clintons back to Transylvania now, please
When I hear “Columbia” the first thing that comes to my mind is Rocky Horror, so I got a chuckle today when Arianna Huffington asked that same question in her blog post: The Clinton-Colombia Connection: It Goes Back a Long Way. Rocky Horror wasn’t one of her answers, but I started laughing because I was [...]
I’m melting, I’m melting
Mark the calendar … Thursday April 10th was the day the last bit of snow finally disappeared here at Leather Egg central. The last remains of Wicked Witch of Winter Past melted, leaving a trail of gritty salty sand and anti-skid in her wake. We’ll have lots of raking and sweeping to clean up the [...]
an icon for the Pittsburgh Pirates
I love the Pittsburgh Pirates, and I had fun following their wild opening night win in Atlanta. But despite how crazy a game this year’s Pirate opener was, it still doesn’t top the wildest baseball game I’ve attended — April 21, 1991 Pirates vs. Cubs in Pittsburgh, a game Andy Van Slyke predicted he would [...]