tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54473932008-07-25T20:15:26.212-04:00ScotchZombiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17595879162932337449noreply@blogger.comBlogger1652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-70859526580910537302008-07-23T11:31:00.001-04:002008-07-23T11:36:25.938-04:00

What exactly do you call it when a television news program asks a politician a question, and he gets the answer blatantly, egregiously, obviously wrong, but they cut the answer out and input another portion of the interview that makes the politician look better? Well, since they did it for John McCain, the idea that CBS is the "liberal media" must now be forever retired, as if it ever had any

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-26524640908236884072008-07-21T14:00:00.002-04:002008-07-21T14:05:41.571-04:00

Just wondering, by how many cents would you estimate that gasoline prices at the pump would drop if the entire continental shelf was opened to oil drilling? Moreover, how much more would the price at the pump drop in that scenario than if current leaseholders merely drilled on the 68 million acres of oil and gas leases already granted on Federal lands which stand unused? When would such savings

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-69034148017988427072008-07-18T01:55:00.004-04:002008-07-18T02:05:29.150-04:00

Some pictures I snapped in Montreat yesterday:

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Picking up on Brian's post of a BNL classic, you've got to see this. The guys have put "Bathroom Sessions" on YouTube - basically the performance of unreleased songs into their webcams. Check this one out, called "I Know," and be sure to wait for the tribute to W about 2/3 of the way through. I saw BNL live in 1995 or 96 at Ziggy's in Winston-Salem. 300 people were there. They played for

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h/t Blue NC. This is a very nifty piece of animation that accompanies a nearly 40 year old piece of audio tape. On the tape, a 14 year old boy, who snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in 1969, interviews Lennon about peace (and also about why his friends like the BeeGees better than the Beatles). It's really quite interesting, and contains a very concise statement of Lennon's philosophy.

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-92212572152612439202008-07-11T10:25:00.001-04:002008-07-11T10:27:03.645-04:00

I'm wearing one. On the ride over here, it went from nice and pressed to looking like a bas relief map of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Have they invented no iron linen yet?

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-50146680225173676152008-07-10T00:55:00.001-04:002008-07-10T00:57:22.367-04:00

I hope you like the new template. I'm going to try this one out for a few days. Right now, Blogger comments are enabled, but don't worry, Haloscan will return, along with all your comments, as soon as I can remember the password. In the meantime, check out the new blogroll. If you have any suggestions for thoughtful or entertaining blogs that I and my 2.5 readers a day might like, please let

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-48842494979704360902008-07-09T17:11:00.002-04:002008-07-09T17:15:17.643-04:00

New, and much appreciated, commenter Smallandpettypat, who found this place after tangling with me over at 850thebuzz, is missing his/her dog. Here's a link to the flyer on Craigslist. And here is Ruca (Roo-kah): If you live in the Knightdale area and find Ruca, please call Pat at (919)422-8524 or email at pleasehelpmefindruca@hotmail.com. Evidently there is a reward. But there shouldn't

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-24821229517470428492008-07-09T10:48:00.005-04:002008-07-09T11:24:00.964-04:00

A couple of Davidson-related news stories that are definitely worth your time. First, Sportsline's Gary Parrish reports from the LeBron James Camp in Cleveland, where America's best college basketball players are spending a week in games and clinics led by LeBron and Chris Paul. For those of you doubting that Davidson can adjust to not having current NBA summer league player Jason Richards

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Following my mother's sage advice, here's all I have to say: Actually, you know what? I really couldn't say it any better than I did three years ago, when Senator Helms's biography elicited a column that got me my first link from Atrios. So here it is again: -------------- The News & Observer has a fascinating article today in which it excerpts lengthy paragraphs from the uncorrected galleys

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-29802938383174739132008-07-03T11:06:00.001-04:002008-07-03T11:07:44.463-04:00

According to the N&O, the Cole trade has ticked off Eric Staal. Brilliant, J.R. Great move.

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-20608738194386245342008-07-02T16:20:00.004-04:002008-07-02T16:32:05.462-04:00

While I generally disagree with just about everything the guy says, and find him to be a pompous windbag, you have to respect Christopher Hitchens for this. He was challenged by a Vanity Fair editor to submit to a water boarding demonstration. Hitchens, a full-throated advocate of the War in Iraq, and a defender of the Administration's anti-terrorism policies, accepted. Here's the result:

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-25615582653274840022008-07-01T13:37:00.003-04:002008-07-01T14:19:31.959-04:00

I don't care if Pitkanen can skate upside down while handling two sticks and has a record of driving forwards through the end boards. YOU DON'T TRADE AWAY A GUY WHO LITERALLY RISKED HIS LIFE TO WIN YOU A STANLEY CUP. Erik Cole is gone. Rutherford complained that certain players weren't playing hard last year, so what does he do? Trades the guy who left a freaking vertebra on the ice, and

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-65223646713471614232008-06-26T15:09:00.001-04:002008-06-26T15:10:19.418-04:00

Why doesn't Karl just go ahead and say "uppity?" You know he wants to...

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-65522468681536479262008-06-23T17:33:00.001-04:002008-06-23T17:34:34.275-04:00

The Presbyterian Church has a new Moderator - Bruce Reyes-Chow, who, to judge from his blog, is a very interesting guy.

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-81125092795364483512008-06-10T11:49:00.002-04:002008-06-10T11:53:15.758-04:00

The Locke Foundation is always assuring us that the key to confronting the problems of growth is to build more roads. Public transit? A subsidy for the lazy, and not cost-effective. Encouraging density through zoning and permitting? Interferes with the free market. BUILD MORE ROADS. Solve congestion by adding lanes. Superhighways everywhere! Except that new roads just push the congestion

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-13338062820719064872008-06-09T23:53:00.004-04:002008-06-10T00:18:49.923-04:00

I wonder if we will ever really appreciate what we have been able to watch in the career of the greatest Center Fielder since Willie Mays. Ken Griffey, Jr. is, quite simply, the best player of his era. Possessed of the sweetest swing in baseball, with lightning speed, a cannon of an arm and a golden glove, he was "The Kid." At 38, he may not be a kid anymore, but he's done what he has done

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-8630059413197350812008-06-06T21:57:00.004-04:002008-06-06T22:26:50.991-04:00

Since it is 100 degrees outside, I thought you would like to see where it was actually cool. Yellow Mountain, NC is a special place. Here are a few photos from our Memorial Day weekend. When it was cold enough for a fire! Ella on a porch of one of the cabins on the mountain. "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world!" On the Hillary Step? Not quite, but still pretty big for a 6

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-65016116402260645652008-06-05T14:27:00.002-04:002008-06-05T14:32:32.706-04:00

Glen Wesley, longtime Defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes, and the only original Hurricane from the dreaded Greensboro years still playing on the team, announced his retirement today. One play symbolizes his work ethic and heady defensive style. Never a high scorer, never fast, never physically dominating, he managed to play over 1400 games as a defenseman in the NHL because he was smart and

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-16203842849515312662008-06-05T11:43:00.002-04:002008-06-05T11:47:02.833-04:00

25% like the President. 67% disapprove. President Bush's approval rating is at its lowest level to date. Just 25 percent of Americans approve of the overall job Mr. Bush is doing as President, an all-time low for him and among the lowest approval ratings ever recorded for a President. I've avoided doing this for 7 years. But here it comes. War. Bank failures. Foreclosures. Katrina.

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On August 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared his dream for America, and traced the story of America from the long night of captivity through 100 years bound by the manacles of segregation. He talked about the Declaration of Independence being a promissory note which had been returned to black Americans marked insufficient funds. That speech, revolutionary in its rhetoric,

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Not sure who put this together, but I agree with the commenter who says it is the best video on YouTube. Outstanding work. P.S. Kansas used a player who should have been ineligible, and whose father received thousands of dollars to "coach" at a Kansas basketball camp. That player scored 7 points in the Regional Finals in Detroit. You know, the game Davidson lost by two.

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-75931623577024721102008-05-20T20:12:00.003-04:002008-05-20T20:14:10.016-04:00

My thoughts and prayers are with Winston, Martin and family in the death of their father, Henry. Stop by Federal Review and let them know. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to Epilepsy Foundation In Memory of Henry Lloyd 8301 Professional Place, East Landover, MD 20785 (Please write the following in the memo line: "For Henry Lloyd, 404 Clearport Dr., Cary, NC 27519").

DrFrankLiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045445948725325218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5447393.post-72094174897981439842008-05-14T10:39:00.002-04:002008-05-14T10:41:48.635-04:00

Move over Peanuts, move over Calvin & Hobbes. There's a new king in town, and the intelligence of this cartoonist is evident just by looking at his latest strip:

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August 29, 2005. As a great American city drowned, and countless numbers of our fellow citizens were struggling for their lives, President Bush and Senator McCain ate cake in celebration of John McCain's 69th birthday. Three years later, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still in ruins, as is the President's legacy. And John McCain? He'll be 72 years old, and he voted against relief.

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