Brigid back at Croton Dam on Tuesday the 16th. Here’s what things had looked like on Thursday the 11th –Brigid pictures: Croton Dam under the snow – such a dull day the pictures look to be black and white. But not Tuesday. And a handful of other people.
An icon. Paved the way for conservative media. Announced lung cancer last February and that he was terminally ill this past December. Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio host, dead at 70 Limbaugh’s death at age 70 was announced Wednesday on his influential conservative radio program, by his wife, Kathryn. Limbaugh announced last February that he was … Read more
Got to this off the Stepinac twitter feed – about the only thing on twitter (it's mostly a sewer) that I follow. Adrian Griffin Jr., the No. 7-ranked senior in the nation And this is off lohud – Stepinac is a high school basketball powerhouse (not exactly my sport). Hit this link for the whole … Read more
Brigid out for a walk a couple of days ago, on top of the dam. But not too many people on top. Almost look like black and white photos – but they are not. Or below the dam in the park. Can just make out one car.
We currently have six of them (yes, insane. Four cages in or formerly quite lovely back room where we used to have nice dinners, etc) so we all need to study the video below. The past weekend we figured out that Dusty, our oldest chinchilla, joined "the family" around Christmas, 2008. So she's well over … Read more
Brigid and I were in Washington the 28th to the 30th, with a swing down into Virginia to see my brother Jim and his wife Maria. We were in DC for the March for Life, which was mainly virtual but there were still some good activities which we were happy to get to. Thursday evening … Read more
Who I met long ago in Jamaica – he is an engineer – originally Canadian. Living in the USA now. Likes to send amusing stuff around. Here’s what he said in his email – I promise no more trump funnies Best regards GrahamB Pretty good!
I never heard of Barstool Sports until the owner, Dave Portnoy, started giving interviews months ago. I guess it's a sports & pop trends website? Portnoy on his own started raising money for small businesses that were heading for failure in the pandemic. So far he's raised $29 million and carefully vets the businesses he … Read more
UPDATE: Bill Donohue of the Catholic League disagrees with me that Larry King was a softball interviewer. He would know much better than I since he was interviewed many times by King and knew him well. And I hardly ever watched Larry King. Pretty famous CNN host – his show ran 25 years. 87 years … Read more
An editorial from last year, on the 47th anniversary of Roe V. Wade. Of course the March for Life this year will be a Virtual March – and it's next Friday the 29th. Pro-lifers are marching today, as they do every year, to commemorate a great evil that was done in January 1973 and to … Read more