SOTU 1

You can almost smell the after-shave and Lavoris. They're all grinning and hugging and slapping backs. It is a celebration of power, the unspoken exhilaration that comes from being able to tell other smaller people what to do.

Good Night, Irene

It's declasse around here to say anything nice -- even one tiny word -- about "folk" music and its performers.

Sorry about that, guys, but anyone slapped down hard by J. Edgar Hoover and Nixon's HUAC had to have something going for him

RIP Pete Seeger.

Gabby and Gun

Dumping on Gabby Giffords is not a pleasant thing to do. So let's not.

But why should we cut breaks for  political ghouls using this mentally-diminished woman to gut America by disarming all citizens who did not wound her and kill six other people?

She will be on your teevee tonight, in paid commercials sandwiching Obama's annual paean to Obama. Her handlers would probably just as soon ignore Ms. Giffords one-time delight in center-massing a a nice-looking boy's image with her assault rifle.

Sure, he's pointing his own weapon at her, but maybe he meant merely to shoot the M16 (AR15?)  out of her hands. So she chould have just shot him in the leg.

Maybe that's why I can't get a raise

I have never been totally pleased with the way my mind works. I have just read that one of the Olympic security threats comes from Islamist thugs in Dagistan.

Which I instantly translated to Dagwoodistan. So made a big sandwich. And wondered how there could fail to be  Blondistan.