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Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Collective Memory of the ARB’s
No post tonight other than this. I’ve been on a politics bender lately and need to get some inspiration on a different track. I promised a forum for this a few days back, and here it is. Without crossing “the … Continue reading
Travellinbaen’s Political Consulting Service, Bipartisan Edition
Quote of the Day: “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” –Mark Twain TB’s been thinking about the state of politics in America lately, and trying to set aside my ingrained bias against the Republican … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged Bull Moose, consulting service, damn political post, Democrats, earmarks, energy, gay marriage, GOP, guns, health care, Issues, Military, Politics, Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt
36 Comments
TB, REK, Double Decker and the Limelight
TB, as has been said before, ain’t no music critic. But I do like Robert Earl Keen and it just so happened he was playing a show at The Lyric in Oxford Friday night, so I went to watch it. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Mississippi, Music, Music
Tagged Blank Stares, conversations, Double Decker Festival, George McConnell, Good Tunes, Humor, interview, Lyric Oxford, Oxford, Robert Earl Keen
10 Comments
Shepard Smith and the Bottom Line
Many of you know Shepherd is in my extended family by marriage. I’m eternally grateful to him for his Katrina reporting and editorializing and I think it has been moments like those–cutting through the bullshit–that have led him to overwhelming … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Politics
Tagged current events, FOX, Politics, Shep Smith, Shepard Smith, torture, torture memo
47 Comments
SECESSION!
Conversation/Legend of the Day: Southern Belle (with parasol twirling, at the outset of the Civil War)–General Beauregard, do you think we can whup them yankees? General Beauregard (resplendent in grey Confederate finery)– Honey child, don’t you worry your pretty little … Continue reading
Posted in current events, History, Humor, Politics
Tagged alternative future, Blank Stares, Civil War, conversations, CSA, economics, economy, FOX, Glenn Beck, hyperbole, irony, labor, lost cause, political humor, Robert E. Lee, secession, United States
5 Comments
TB, the Sucker
Quote of the Day (vol. ii): “Every crowd has a silver lining.” –P.T. Barnum When one undertakes to maintain a blog of conversation, observation and instigation, an unspoken underlying assumption must be present in the writer’s mind … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Life
Tagged Blank Stares, Charlie Brown, Food, Fresh Market, Life, Lucy, mild humor, Peanuts, Peppermint Patty, sucker
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A Spring Afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery
Quote of the Day: “On fame’s eternal resting ground their silent tents are spread, and glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead.” –inscription on McClellan’s Gate, Arlington National Cemetery, from “Bivouac of the Dead” … Continue reading
Travellinbaen Goes to Washington
Quote of the Day: “It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even … Continue reading
Posted in current events, Life, Politics
Tagged Blank Stares, D'Artagnan, dueling, FOX, high speed rail, Indiana sword fight, President Obama, railroads, sword fight, taxes, tea party, teabaggin, Washington D.C.
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