The 2008 World Grits Festival to be April 11, 12 & 13, 2008. I was raised on Adluh grits.
Note to Yankees: grits do not require sugar.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Grits lovers should mark their calendars
George MacDonald Fraser
2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008
I must take belated notice of the passing of George MacDonald Fraser, OBE. Author of the Flashman series of comic historical novels, he had a deft hand explaining the underpinnings of the British Empire of the 19th century. His protagonist, Harry Flashman (the bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, all grown up) turns up everywhere, whether charging the battery at Balaclava or doing brown a young Otto von Bismarck.
The footnotes alone are worth an upper level course in European History.
The Economist has the obituary . Christopher Hitchens weighs in, as well.
Delay can't promise to support McCain
Remember that McCain was the chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that unearthed much of the Tom Delay/Jack Abramoff dirt.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Zimbabwe bank issues $10million bill
But it won't even buy a hamburger. Only a national government has the power to reduce valuable commodities such as ink and paper into worthless trash.
Polaroid Closing Instant Film Factories
This is the end of an era. I once had one of the elegant SX-70 cameras.
Will there always be an England?
A row in Britain after an Archbishop says that Muslims might live, in part, by separate legal rules
Dave Winer wants us to be able to sleep
Protoblogger Dave Winer wants the Republicans to debate health care and leave the slogans and platitudes at home. He then invokes an old rhetorical chestnut.
"Whether we have universal health care or not, it won't change the basics of how health care works, and how unfair it is to be sick and fighting for your life. But there are some things we can change, and if you have a heart, and think about it, I don't see how anyone could be against universal health care and still sleep at night." (emphasis mine)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/02/08/debatingHealthCareIn2008.html
Fred backs McCain
"This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain."
Reflections upon Super Tuesday - with a nod towards Bertolt Brecht
After the uprising of the 5th of February
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity
Had leaflets distributed by the Club for Growth
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the conservatives
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for CPAC
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
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