--Would you trust this proposal?Here is an older homeowner, living in (let us say) a large, once-regal Victorian with significant acreage, who due to increasing years can no longer get around it so well, nor maintain the estate in the style formerly accustomed, and so has hired someone to look after the building and yard for which this individual ( Read more... )

here is a small photo offering, while I work on finishing this AM's post, because you all have already heard me call Bush and Blair bleeding liars lots of times already and there weren't really any new lies in this evening's joint press conference, just old lies dusted off and recombined in slightly different ways by Minitrue. Also, Bush's wierd ( Read more... )

Anyone here remember, or ever heard of, the Washington Star?

I hadn't, when I hit the name in All The President's Men, where they were being given "access" by the Nixon WH, publically favoured over the disgraced enemy Post after Bernstein and Woodward continued to dig into the the case ( Read more... )

I've been going back through All the President's Men and marking up passages that are important to transcribe or at least summarize, but it's a lot of them, even cut down to the bone ( Read more... )

I came across a mention of this old WSJ editorial a few weeks back, and made a note to track it down and forgot about it. Reminded again by a reference, the time seems even more appropriate now, given the headlines:ImpeachHere we stand in a clearing of the most difficult century of human history, wanting our deserved rest, and standing with us may ( Read more... )