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Freddy Fender, to whom we say RIP at age 69.

Fascinating program on NPR’s ”Studio 360” on the sense of scents.  My wife favors Herrera 212.  What are some of your thoughts about odors and perfumes? Is there such a thing as a conservative aesthetic?  Programs like this remind me of how far conservative media still has to go. I’m a big fan of beers.  Pilsner Urquell, for example, is quintessentially what a pilsner should be, and has as much

Do you like gladiator movies?  What are you wearing? List your favorite gladiator movies and why they’re great.

uBreakup: Remote dumping service.

From page 272: . . . Tony Lake’s report so worried me, in fact, that I knew we could no longer use half measures in dealing with the North Koreans.  It was time to get tough.  I called Warren Christopher in.  I remember it distinctly, because I usually didn’t like to deal with Warren face to face—he left a smell of mothballs behind him wherever he went.  Warren came in,

Note: I’m wont to review some of my past writings. The following is from my 9/11 post of this year; however, with the upcoming election and the recent discussions on war and why/how/should we fight, I want to share my post here. nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ~~Omar Khayyam Before

…so much to Edward H for the J.A. Henckels knives.  At long last, our feasts of animal flesh will be sliced, not torn.  Just like the Angus beef cows would have wanted it.

A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said. […] “He never took his eye off the grenade, his only movement was down toward it,” said a 28-year-old lieutenant who sustained shrapnel wounds to both legs that day. “He undoubtedly saved mine and the other SEALs’ lives,

For what are you willing to die? I know that I’m crazy as hell, and there are a lot of people eager to tell me so, but I am willing to die for you.  For this conversation that we’ve been having since time immemorial, you and I and they. Will you die for me?  Check your pulse and decide. I am sorry to have become a fanatic.  It is not