Archive for August 29, 2009
HOA Fees?
I’m watching “House Hunters” on HGTv and I’m amazed that people are willing to spend upwards of $200 per month on HOA fees (not to mention their mortgage).
People Waving From Limousines?
I don’t remember a time when a presidential or senatorial funeral procession wove its way through the streets of Washington, D.C. on a hot summer’s night and the occupants of those limos rolled their windows down — and kept them down — and waved to the people along the way.
Let’s pay attention. No matter the temperature — hot or cold — let’s pay attention the next time a Republican dies. Will their family acknowledge the common folk?
Memories of Grandpas
One of Ted Kennedy’s grandchildren (video is dark so I don’t know her name) said that she loved visiting him at Hyannis and waking up early in the morning and going out on the porch to find him there, starring out at the sea. She said she’d sit with him and they would “talk and talk and talk.”
What a wonderful memory. I never met my mother’s father and though I spent considerable time with him — he died when I was in my late teens — I don’t remember my father’s father saying one word to me.
Grass Roots Mourning
It’s really something to see the crowds materialize along Ted Kennedy’s funeral route; along the way from Hyannis to Boston, in Boston proper and is evening, lining the streets of Washington, D.C.
Now what’s what I call a grass roots event (I say, as CNN runs chyrons about the corporate-sponsored “TeaParty Express.”)
“Explosive” Cheney
Fox is touting an appearance Dick Cheney will make on Fox tomorrow, saying it’ll be “explosive.” Translation, for those of us who have not been brainwashed by Fox: He’ll lie his ass off.
Teddy Loved All Things French
Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., spoke today at his father’s funeral. One of the things he said was that Teddy “loved all things French. The cheese. The wine. The women.”
I’m willing to bet that Fox will play a clip of that over and over again. After all, it confirms to the righties that they’re justified in loathing the guy. That’s all they need to hear.
Poor George
I’m watching the mourners at Ted Kennedy’s funeral talk amongst themselves while they wait for the service to begin. George W. and Laura Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Obamas are sitting together. Hillary and Laura talked to each other (with George sitting between them) for a few minutes and Bill and Barack Obama talked to each other for a bit. All the while, W. looked so uncomfortable and out of place. He seems unable to make small-talk. And he seems to have developed a tic whereby he moves his jaw from side to side.
Overall he looks rather pathetic.
