Sonny Rollins
When I was 20 something and lived in Brooklyn, Sonny lived two doors down from me and as I've mentioned before I got his autograph. My man now lives just down the road from me (10 miles) and I have his phone number even if I would never dare to bother him. And no, I am not stalking him. Eat your heart out Grupp.
The Wrong NYawkah
Screw Hillary. Charles Schumer is the one who ought to be running for Prez. Hell, he should BE Prez. He's samrter. He's just working at his job. He has "roomates" f'crisake.
MacDries says, "You heard it here first."
Huh???
As much as I'd love to see The Shrub censured by the congress, do we really need John "Toady" Dean to tell us so? He saved his own ass once and now he's some sort of sage????

MacDries says, "Politics all around. Nothing more. Feingold is right but he's just positioning himself. The Dems are all covering their asses. Hillary is spouting the Bible daily. And the Republicans know they are in power. Everybody should just shut-up and do something usefull."
Chores
Today I dug a small trench and opened the spillway to drain the pond a few inches. Then I raked a couple of Ann's flower beds down to a rocky part of the lawn for compost. Then I covered the area with about 10-15 wheelbarrows full of dirt and raked it smooth. Then I sprinkled the area with grass seed and watered it down. That about whipped me so I took a break, had lunch and drove to town to get my evening movie. Paradise Now. I also have Saraband by Ingmar Bergman as backup.
Sunny and perfect weather all day. And quiet. Did I mention quiet?
Still no sign of my Koi. I guess I have to give up and plant me a few more.
Good Advice
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinnrs for four, unless there were three others joining me.
-- Orson Welles
Out Like A Lamb
Slept late. Phone's working again. Lots of leaves to rake today. That's my plan.

Angell Hill Road
Everything is still brown. Nothing blooming but it's WARM and quiet and quiet and fresh air is free. Phone line is down but the DSL portion works so I can at least Skype my home front babes. There is an odd glurpp-glurpp sound every so often that I have yet to trace. Unwrapping things outside and plugging in the hose again. Found a dead chipmunk (the best kind*) on the floor in the basement but no other damage so far. One dead tree started to fall on the trail and got caught on another good tree. It's what they call a "widow maker" if an amateur like myself should try to take it down. More $$$$$$.
*Cute, perhaps, but they maliciously dig up bulbs and then don't even eat them. They are pests like most rodents. When I was a boy we used to trap Gophers @ 20 cents a pair of front feet and we would often get a Chipmunk in our traps and no one was the wiser.
The pond is thawed but no sign of any Koi surviving so far.
NYC Streetlife

©2006 Danny Dries - I'm from Iowa but no one heard of Speed in those days other than No Speed Limit on the highways.
Amtrak
10:45 to Hudson. Too hot, as usual. Departing on time at least.
Happy Birthday Slowhand
Eric Clapton is 61 today.
Heading Up North
Weather looks nice and the Forsythia I planted last year should be blooming. Ann says the daffodyls too. Even if I don't know a daffodil from a tulip. We now have DSL up there if I get it working so there should be nothing different.
Lots of leaves to rake so I'll get some exercise as I'm supposed to do.

Memo To Emma
FIRCREST, Wash. Mar 29, 2006 - A kindergarten student was expelled for 10 days after he brought a .22-caliber gun to school, officials said.
The 5-year-old boy climbed from a chair onto a washer-dryer and got an unloaded pistol out of a cupboard at home, police said. He showed a friend the gun on the Whittier Elementary School playground, then put it into a friend's backpack, Police Chief John Cheesman said.

MacDries says, "My Sparkler has not taken it seriously enough when a couple of 7th grade students in her school popped off a few plastic BBs at their fellow students."
CNN Headline
Bush Blames Iraq Instability On Hussein

MacDries says, "Huh? I thought we had that guy on trial? In jail? Ranting and raving? Mission Accomplished?"
Back to Sexy
FHM Mag lists their top 10 sexiest women (in America). What they fail to see is that while all 10 are rather gorgeous, with nice hair and fair skin, few of them are actually sexy. They may dress provocatively, and Keira Knightley is pretty sexy, Angelina has a great jaw and spectacular lips if a bit whacko, but who the hell is Jessica Alba? Plus I don't even know what FHM Mag is.

MacDries says, "I saw a 50 year old woman at the Brooklyn Museum the other day who was sexier than any of these women. Nome sain? Sexy is in the mind of the beholder."
Overheard
Drunk girl: Sometimes, when I look at myself through the microscope of cold, hard objectivity, I think to myself, "God, you are awesome!"
iPod Volume Control
Apple released software to set a limit to the volume on your (or you child's) iPod to avoid hearing loss. Go HERE.
Shrub Speak With Forked Tongue
Bush invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy to the people. He supports free elections but he doesn't support the guy the Iraqis elected and will now do everything he can to install a puppet.
He, being a puppet of Cheney, wants his own country to play with.
Blood Sugar
Diabetes is a pain in the ass, and the fingers too. Always having to prick them to test the blood. Mine has been out of whack so I've finally been forced to get more exercise in the city. I go out walking with the camera now that the weather is nice. Plus I'm doing a couple short sessions a day on the eliptical trainer while watching DVDs. Yesterday it was Year Of The Horse with Neil Young.
NYC Streetlife

© 2006 Danny Dries - I don't know what this guy is about.

Poor Tommy
DeLay wants his gun back.

MacDries says, "Give it to him. Maybe he'll shoot himself or a close associate, like (insert name here)."
Hall Of Shame
Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Manson and Eminem are just a few who used and drew inspiration from Absinthe and its effects.
Not gonna link to this site, but that's their ad campaign.
More McCain
The Transformation Is Almost Complete
John McCain once called Jerry Falwell an "agent of intolerance." Now he's going to be the graduation speaker at Jerry's Liberty University.
-- Josh Marshall

MacDries says, "Josh Marshall runs the Talking Points Memo. Go HERE to keep up.
Tit 4 Tat
OK. To all you dedicated visitors to the T Monk WebLog: For the last few months we have leveled off here at 4-5 hundred hits per day. And as Emeril always says, "Time to kick it up a notch." To make me feel like we are growing, I need each of you to spread the word to your personal posse of web surfers. Or if you have your own blogs give me a link and I'll do the same for you if you tell me where you are.
Maybe In Enron Accounting
Jeffrey Skilling earned more than $151.7 million from Enron Corp. from 1999 to 2001, the year he resigned and the company collapsed. He also sold stock for more than $41 million. In the same three years, Kenny Boy Lay earned more than $222.8 million from the company.

MacDries says, "No one EARNS that much money. Steals, embezzles, absconds, scams, cons. Those are the appropriate words."
NYC Streetlife

© 2006 Danny Dries - Bush Hater. This guy is almost 7 feet tall.
Dead To Me

And to everyone else. Felon and former Raygun Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger has left the building. Remember Iran/Contra? Remember Bush41 pardoning him?
Also Lyn (The Ogre) Nofziger checked out yesterday. 2 down, scores of Republicans to go.
Kill The Messinger

The Shrub cleans house by getting rid of Andy Card, the guy most famous for interupting his reading to the kids to tell him we were under attack.

MacDries says, "That ought to bring his numbers right up."
Scalia Showing His Sicilian

Once again, Scalia flips off reporter with a Sicilian brush-off. Go HERE.

MacDries says, " A man of many words and a vocabulary of gestures."
Go HERE for more gestures.

Joan Of Arc Was Noah's Wife
12% of Americans "believe" this. Stole this from CodeFred.
Follow the link to Harper's Magazine.
Trudeau For Prez (not Pierre, Gary)
See Doonesbury today. Go HERE.

MacDries says, "And remember who you get as First Lady."
Kerry Hates Celery!!!!!!!
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Me too, but I like celery seed in my tuna salad."
Scalia Flips The Bird
"War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," he is quoted as saying. "Give me a break."
Asked whether Gitmo detainees have any rights under international conventions, Justice Scalia reportedly answered: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs.
"I had a son (Matthew Scalia) on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy."

MacDries says, "It's a toss-up: Who more deserves impeachment? The Shrub or Scalia? I say both.
Whatever Happened To...?
Saw John Kascich on The Colbear Repore last night and had the hardest time recalling who he was. Seems vaguely, that he ran against The Shrub in Y2K. He's pushing a book called Stand For Something.

MacDries says, "Sounds like he should have been a Democrat."
DeLay Has His Hidden Gun Taken Away
Indicted felon are not allowed to carry guns in Tejas. And Tommy has been indicted. Go HERE.

MacDries says, "But felons, indicted or not, don't usually give a damn about the law."
Dance The Pipecleaner
Go HERE.
Don't Shoot The Puppy
Go HERE.
PG Is Not Sexy
So Angelina gets knocked up (and not even married yet) and she get dumped from the top of the sexy list. New sexyest is Scarlett.

MacDries says, "Nice gazongas but I'll still go with Julianne Moore who didn't even make the top 10."
Not News
We all know The Shrub was dead set to invade Iraq, willy-nilly. but now a Brit confirms it and it is in the headlines.
The Shrub predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups." Mr. Blair agreed with that assessment.

MacDries says, "But The Shrub just told us last week that he hated war and did everything he could to avoid it but Saddam wouldn't let him. Can't some people get that in their puny little heads?"

Best Argument Against Impeachment
Remember how we all learned why Nixon chose Agnew? He had to be gotten rid of before any serious talk could proceed to action. Luckily he was a crook, an embezzler and an idiot. Deal done.
No one would claim Cheney is dumb. He's just evil and very effective.
Getting rid of him is not easily done with a Republican congress.
A CENSURE vote, up/down, win/lose would be a good first step. Second step is take control of congress this year and IMPEACH the little fuck next year.
But even that is not gonna happen cuz there is no way the incompetant Dems will get 2/3rds of the Senate.
Politics 101.
Doonesbury Does Dick
You oughta go HERE.
Funny/Strange

Off to Brooklyn Museum. with the girls, to see the Wm. Wegman retrospective, one of my favorite artists. Plus his dogs are better artists than, say, Jeff Koons.

MacDries says, "Wegman is still one of the best around with a very unique sense of humor. Proves that you don't have to be pretentious to make interesting and sometimes beautiful art.

Near Fairbanks

Graceland
A National Monument?????
Right up there with Monticello. The Alamo. Pearl Harbor.
Buck Owens, 76, R.I.P
The Buckster (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr.) from Bakersfield is gone. Willie, Merle, George and Ray are about all we've got left of that generation.
Guess it's time for an all day session.
"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time," he said in 1992.

MacDries says, "You did that and more Buck. You kicked country in the ass."
Gates' Trouble Getting Out Of the Gate
First Vista delayed now Office 2007. Get a clue Bill.
More Sham Investigations
Arlen Spector (R-PA) schedules hearing on Censure to keep Feingold (D-WI) from "spouting off".
Go HERE.

The Shrub Signs Patriot Act
But he had his fingers crossed.
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "And congress lets him get away with it."
NYC Streetlife

50 degrees and breezy. Guy said. "Thanks."
TrueMajority.org
Can you believe that it's been 17 years and Exxon Mobil still hasn't paid the money it owes to the Alaskan communities devastated by the Exxon Valdez oil spill?
On Friday, March 24th, please join True Majority in commemorating the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill by calling Exxon Mobil to demand payment for the spill victims. It will only take two minutes to call - just dial 1-972-444-1000. Click the link below for talking points and to report that you made the call.
Go HERE.
Townes Van Zandt
Trailer for Be Here To Love Me. Go HERE.
Go HERE to hear him sing Dollar Bill Blues.
Go HERE to buy the DVD.
"Townes Van Zandt is the best damn songwriter in the world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."
-- Steve Earle
Addwaita, 250, R.I.P
That's The One & Only in Bengali.
No News
Unlike major media outlets, when nothing, other than laundry, is going on, we don't have to publish anything.

Passing The Buck
The Shrub passes the decision to withdraw on to The Generals and the actual withdrawal on to future Presidents and future Iraqi governments. Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Essentially, he's saying, 'I got you into this mess now you get us out'."
OMG

Beards are back (in style) according to NYTimes.

MacDries says, "They never went away for some of us."

Think About China (more than Dim Sum)
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "I recently saw Robert Reich outside my door, walking down the street with his kids. Yeah, he has kids. And they're taller than him and he still thinks pretty good."
Dump McCain
Disclosure: I bet $200 hard cash that McCain would be the next Prez and I would love to lose that money unless the next Prez is Hillary.
He is the 3rd worse Bush Clone in the run and sort of oblivious. Go HERE.
Here's Jimi
The Wind Cries Mary in Stockholm. Go HERE.
Trump That!
"I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young."
-- Donald Trump, on the birth of son Barron William

MacDries says, "Some might say, no. You just marry girls younger than your own."
Tablet Computer
Coming soon from Apple? That's the buzz.
On another note: Two hacks have managed the stupid feat of booting Windows on the new Intell Mac.

MacDries says, "Why?"

Al Gore 2008
Don't count him out yet. He's better looking than Kerry, nicer than Hillary, smarter than Edwards, and he did once get more votes than the guy who "took" office. I see him running. Go HERE.
Pink- Stupid Girls
Go HERE for Video.
Some Days
Some days I'm actually doing something creative. Today for instance I've been working on my memoirs. So there. That's why I'm not too caught up in the latest crap out of The Shrub's mouth.
More later.
Cool Site Of The Day
Back in the day of Netscape .9 this used to be a cool site but now it's all ads. So I'm not gonna link to it.
More Than You Want To Know
My wife claims I don't know the proper way to tie my shoe laces. But I know more than she does. Go HERE.
God's Retribution
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Mar 21, 2006 ‹ A powerful storm dumped more than a foot of snow in the Plains, closing schools and roads and forcing residents to man shovels Monday during the first day of spring.
Some suspect He/She is pissed about that abortion law.

How Many Times Can It Be Said?
If the Republicans had an oppostion President with such low approval ratings (mid 30s) they would be lapping up his Fava beans with a nice Chianti. Look how they tried to impeach Clinton who always had tolerable numbers. It may be time for an actual 3rd Party. The Dems don't seem to be able to muster el cohones to do it.
Step up and take a shot whomever. Sptizer? Bloomberg?
Copycat Copycat
Microsoft is great! But... Microsoft is not Good. It is never original and whenever it spots a good thing it will either buy it, or copy it and then use its orignal entrenched monopoly to drive the original innovator out of business. Remember Netscape?
Latest attempt is Google (good luck) and now Craig's List.
Latest Paintings

13", 13", 7" h - 6", 5", 4" d
Fascinating
A woman who remembers everything.
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Damn! There are tons of things I'd like to forget."
bin Laden Wins
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah."
"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat;"
And [al Qaeda has found it] "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."

MacDries says, "And who ever thought that the Soviet Union could crumble?"
100 Years Ago
Cezanne died 100 years ago.
Didja Know?
They have radiation detectors in the subways here in Bunker City. And they do work. At least they work if you've recently have a medical procedure requiring radiation. Don't know about dirty bombs.
Bedside Reading
Been re-reading David Sedaris lately; one of the best and funniest writers around. Me Talk Pretty One Day, Barrel Fever, Naked, Dress Your Family In Denim And Corduroy and Holidays On Ice. Most of these are memoirs except Barrel Fever which has a few not so good short fictions plus essays. The stories about his brother Paul are a real hoot. If you have a family member who seems rather like an alien, that would be Paul. Holidays On Ice includes previously published stories so you can skip that and just go for the others.
3rd Anniversary Headline

Both Bush and Cheney see success in Iraq

MacDries says, "Picture it now, they meet in the oval office and say, OK, here what we do: We say things are going well. As long as we're united, patriots will buy it. Oh, yeah, don't forget to mention War On Terror."

Busted!!!!

Go HERE.
Europe @ Sunset

Berkshire Bathtub

Greenmeads Farm - 2003 ©Danny Dries
Photographic Gallery

A new photo gallery has recently opened in our new non-Fulton Fish Market neighborhood. And the first few shows have been excellent. We only hope they can continue to hang such significant shows. The current show is: Unembedded - Four Independent Photojournalists On the War In Iraq
Go HERE.

The Year Of Magical Thinking
Just finished this book last night, as I've read almost everything of Joan Didion over the years and loved some of it: Slouching Toward Behlehem and The White Album. This, however, is a confusing book. On the one hand it reveals all of what people have always hated and loved about Didion; it's all about a somewhat harmlessly neurotic me, meaning Joan Didion and in this case John Gregory Dunne and their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne. Didion/Dunne have been for years the premiere literary couple. America's Sartre/DeBeauvior with the added element of monogamy and no real scandals.
On the other hand there is a huge element missing. It does not reveal that their daughter also died after she had finished the book and she declined to edit it before publication. Thus it is also somewhat infuriating since most of us knew this fact from the news.
Perhaps a sequel is in the works. I can't imagine that it is not.
Can't say I liked the book but I did finish it and can't help but think it will now shade whatever she writes in the future. And that is sad.
1 In 3
"Although one in every three American babies has unwed parents, birth fathers' rights remain an unsettled area, a delicate balancing act between the importance of biological ties and the undisrupted placement of babies whose mothers relinquish them for adoption."
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Anyone can have a baby but not everyone wants to own the responsibility."
Heads Up!!!!
Don't know if you noticed but...
One of the methods NYC Police used to indict a recent alleged rapist/killer was tracking where and when he used his cell phone. They placed him in the vicinity of where the brutalized body was found. Circumstantial but there was also some DNA evidence. Busted!!!

MacDries says, "I'm conflicted on this. One the one hand, criminals are stupid. On the other hand it's another example of modern day Big Brother keeping tabs. What say you?"
Score: 1 For The Earth
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Now wait for the Supremes to overrule it."
Michael Winship On BuzzFlash
Go HERE.
The Americas

3 Years & Counting (the dead)
Bush's War. No end in sight.

Maori Mike
Tyson paid a friend $275,000 for biting his leg.

MacDries says, "That's an expensive meal and a very small portion."
Don't Bother
Even though Kris Kristopherson once wrote a few good songs, he has never been much of a singer. He now writes some of the sloppiest songs around. I checked out one of his CDs from the library and would like to send it sailing across the FDR into the East River after 2 or 3 tracks.
It's Not Illegal
Shooting pix or tape in subways or trains is not illegal so don't let some little facsist in blue tell to stop. Go HERE.
France v. iPod
France will try to force Steve Jobs to include other music suppliers to the iPod.

MacDries says, "I predict Steve will tell France to shove it."
CodeFred
For years when CodeFred was RomDog and lived upstairs, he had a live Brooklyn Bridge camera. Fred moved to Brooklyn and the camera is gone. But if you want to see other live cams: Go HERE.
St. Paddy's Day
And as usual, with the Paris Bar next door, we can expect piles of hurl on our doorstep tomorrow. Maybe a fight or two outside our window tonight. A great day to be Irish and abstemious. But not gay.
Thank You For Smoking
Have you ever seen such an ad campaign?
It's a one trick pony.

Engrish.com

  All Presidents Want It
"For Congress to offer a line-veto is much like giving your car keys to a friend and saying 'Don't let me drive, I plan to be out of control.'"
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former head of the Congressional Budget Office
$9,000,000,000,000.
That's 9 trillion. Say it trippingly off the tongue. Your share of the national debt is $30,000.
1/3 of that total has been added since The Shrub took office 5 years ago.
Clooney Now Says He Didn't Write Blog
Go HERE.
Emo Everywhere
Twice today I've seen references to Emo Bands. Had to ask Kate what they were. She said, "Sad songs." Now you know too.
Operation Swarmer
U.S. launches the largest air bombardment since The Mission Was Accomplished in Iraq two years ago.
Our Kate The Great
So far Kate has gotten accepted at U. of Michigan, McGill and UC Santa Cruz. More to come.
Katherine Harris Will Spend Her Own Money
Daddy gave it to her and she can always find a sugar daddy to replenish it once she gets in the Senate.
You've Been Warned
Congress, heads up!!!!! The Shrub has declared he might invade Iran if he thinks it's necessary.

Another Area Of Discrimination
If you've ever tried to Google an old, real or imagined, girlfriend, you will discover that many of them will have changed their names over the digitalization years.
Where and who are you now Leah Vander Ploeg, Carol Stickole, Diane Osterman, Terry Berry, Marjorie Doren (nevermind)?
Moussaoui Mess
How incompetant can you get when a guy has confessed and you (Carla Martin) still have to coach prosecution witnesses?
The judge, Leonie Brinkema, lambasted prosecutors, saying, "In the annals of criminal law, I don't know if there has ever been a case with this many significant problems."

MacDries says, "And did you notice they now have a new file photo of the dewd?"
April Will Hit the Shrub Hard
Two former administration officials on trial at the end of April. David Safavian, the former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy who was indicted for lying about his ties to Jack Abramoff, is set to start his trial April 18th. Claude Allen, the former domestic policy advisor to Bush arrested for creative shopping, is set for an April 27th trial.
Finally!!!
Bush adminstration finally did something right. They busted an internet child porn ring. Now let's see how it plays out. It's almost certain they did something wrong.
E. Stands For Envy
E. Annie Proulx whines about her loss of the Academy Award then says they don't stand for anything anyway.

MacDries says, "Give us all a break E. You wrote a short story that was inflated into a silly confused film of two guys who cheat on their wives. And now you claim that is a more powerful story than racism in L.A."
Another Reason To Love Monk
"When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to negroes, and for a while, I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them , some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up."
-- Thelonious Sphere Monk- Down Beat Magazine

MacDries says, "Also I just acquired a new old CD of Monk with Art Blakey. Get it!"
Dickhead Does Cash @ Folsom Prison
Go HERE.
George Clooney, Liberal
George is not afraid to say it. Who else?
Go HERE.
Reminder
Don't forget, this is your Prez.
Go HERE to see the whole tape.

New Music
Been hearing about Fred Hersch for some time and just came across a CD at the library. Hersch plays Monk. Now That's an awesome and somewhat stupid gambit from the git go but I brought it home and put it on. Sure enough he's a pretty good piano player but I kept thinking, I'd rather hear Monk playing each tune. I'll have to check him out on some other stuff. It's not fair to compare him to my main man.
Another Bunch Of Idiots.
The following is copied from My Sparkler's Blog. Go HERE.

So....interesting day on Friday. Two 7th graders brought a beebee gun into our school and shot 4 people; one in the lip, one on the finger, one in the stomach and one somewhere else I don't know. I highly doubt that they actually wanted to hurt these people. They were just being idiots and shooting randomly. "Hey look, it's a gun! BANG BANG!"
Of course they got taken upstairs to the office. They then both asked to go to the bathroom and ran out of the school building. The police looked for them for hours and apparently eventually found them both at home. wow. how stupid do you have to be? Okay why didn't they realize that running made things worse? Did hey seriously think that they wouldn't be caught? I mean, come on.

MacDries says, "I hope these kids get properly punished and their parents sued. A couple years older and they would know how to get their hands on a larger weapon. Emma is being charitable. A b-b gun, shooting plastic could still blind someone."
Latest Painting
Paint on cardboard.
Feingold Fails
Of course. To actually vote to censure The Shrub would mean the Senate would actually have to do something. Stand for something.
Dwarf Tossing Declared Illegal In Ontario
Go HERE.
Dead In The Water
Katherine Harris, (remember her?) running for Senator on her ill-got celebrity in Florida, is gonna have to drop out. Seems she's caught up is some dirty biz about money.

Some Days Just Bees That Way
Feingold's futile attempt to censure The Shrub. Try again after you take over congress.
McCain The Moderate????
The bottom line is that Mr. McCain isn't a moderate; he's a man of the hard right. How far right? A statistical analysis of Mr. McCain's recent voting record, available at www.voteview.com ranks him as the Senate's third most conservative member.
-- Paul Krugman (NYT) Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Here stands the next Prez. Darling of right-wing Dems."
Rock Hall Of Hype
Herb Alpert? Gimme a break.
Much Ado About 12
Twelve is a magical number. It's divisible by two, three, four and six. There are twelve months in a year, twelve hours on a clock, twelve signs of the zodiac, twelve tones in the musical scale, and twelve in a dozen, twelve inches in a foot, twelve Knights of the Round Table, twelve members in a jury (usually), twelve labors of Hercules... twelve must have something going for it.

MacDries says, "Yeah, and I was the 12th of 15 children in our family."

One Rascal Fewer
Slobodan Milosevic dead in his cell @64. Makes one hope there is a place called hell. Also hard to believe that he and Dick Cheney are both my age. Evil seems older than me.
I removed this item yesterday so it wouldn't sully my Mama's birthday.

2nd Anniversary Of Blog
Just realized I started this blog on my Ma's birthday two years ago.
Happy 103rd Birthday Ma
Agnes Isabella Guertin Dries (Maybelle 1903-1957) R.I.P.

Bare-Butt Burglar
Go HERE.
Out The Door

Now in the collection of Harry Levy & Leslie Carr, NYC. Feels like free money and it doesn't come along that often.
Harry & Leslie are owners of Cyberounds, a medical education site. Go HERE.
Artist Of The Day
Shawn Barber. Art & Tatoos. Or is that redundant?
Go HERE.
Hate Adam Nagourney?
Go HERE for a parody blog.
Won The Wrong Battle
Port deal stopped. Patriot Act passed.

Apologies To Dick Cheney
Go HERE.
Marion Barry Gets Probation

This guy has a great lawyer. Probation for not filing tax returns after serving time for drug abuse.
R&B Photo Gallery
Probably more than you want to know.
No? Go HERE.
Time's A Wastin'
Lil Sis Dee Grupp sent me an m3u file but it won't play so I'm still looking.
Update: DeeGirl came through with an MP3.

Microsoft Re-Designs iPod
Go HERE.
Run Al, Run

Al Franken interview. Go HERE.
Go HERE for Franken's PAC.
The Last Word
Brokeback Moutain was:
A. A film about two guys who cheat on their wives.
Or
B. A sad love story about two gay shepherds.
Kate The Great
... is looking for a song by June Carter Cash called Time's A Wastin'. It might be a duet with Johnny or her first husband Carl Smith.
Anybody know where to find it let me know. She says, "It's a good song."
Lobster With Feathers
Go HERE.

Speak Loudly & Carry A Big Dick
Cheney warns Iran and now watch them fold before we encourage the Israelis to take them out.
Headline
Book Says Barry Bonds Used Steroids.
Doh!
KaChing!

Maybe sold this one or maybe Tumbling Tondos. Go HERE.
Kewl.
March On
Today, I'm still sick of winter. And I've got another toothache. Different one.

Back To Bed

Got Nuthin'
Thinkin' about quittin'.

Personal Day
I'm sick of news.

Broke Mac Mountain
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Bembo Zoo
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Katrina
Go HERE.
Happy 81st Birthday Sybella
Family matriarch, Sybella Reiners, born 1925, Ashton Iowa.

It's Personal

From The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- W.B. Yeats
Garrison Keillor Says Yes
Impeach him for war crimes and let the Senate hear the evidence.
Go HERE.

MacDries says, "Unfortunately the revenge for Nixon, Bubba impeachment, has cheapened the whole enterprise. We can't just impeach every President who comes along. Especially when his party controls the world."
Word*
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A white house source stated that Congress is considering awarding Vice-President Dick Cheney the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian commendation, for his act of bravery in shooting an attorney. The source was quoted to say, "All Americans have wanted to shoot a lawyer at one time or another and Cheney actually had the guts to do it".

In a related story, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which issues hunting licenses, said that it will start requiring hunters, wishing to bag a lawyer, to have the new "lawyer's stamp" on their hunting license. Currently Texas hunters are required to carry stamps for hunting birds, deer, and bear, at a cost of $7 annually. The new "lawyers stamp" will cost $100, but open season will be all year long. The department further stated that although the "lawyers stamp" comes at hefty price, sales have been brisk and it is believe it will generate annual revenues in excess of $3 billion dollars the first year.
Other states are considering similar hunting stamps.
*According to WlfSng
More Hardball Journalism
VARGAS: How are the dogs?
BUSH: The dogs are comfortable.
VARGAS: As they always seem to be.
BUSH: Not only comfortable but quite independent.
VARGAS: Every time we've been here, we have chronicled some mischief that one or the other has been up to.
BUSH: They're handy in Washington. They don't talk back, they don't argue with you. They're good.
VARGAS: They also just treat you like anybody else. I mean, that must be nice, I mean I'm sure your family does that too.
Go HERE for the whole darn thing.
VARGAS: It's very pretty here Mr. President. Very nice.
BUSH: Yeah, it is nice.
VARGAS: Very, very nice.
Civil War
Civil def. Courteous and polite. War def. A state of competition, conflict, or hostility between different people or groups.

MacDries says, "That makes civil War an oxymoron."
Start Off Our 3rd Year With Jimi
In like a lion...
Go HERE.

Back at'cha Shrub. You little twerp!
Go HERE to see the whole tape.

For The Latest Dries Art GO HERE
For The Latest CyberToonz GO HERE
I've never actually watched an episode of The Simpsons (I'm more of a Pixar kind of guy) butt...
*Dislaimer

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