Recent content by wilbill

I've had a Kindle for about 3 years and I love it. I still buy a real book occasionally, but the Kindle is convenient and I've really come to prefer it. One advantage is that I can set the type large enough for my feeble old eyes even if I forget my reading glasses.

A wonderful book. I pull it out and read it every couple of years. My copy is pretty tattered - I bought it in the mid-70's. My current read is Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe. Wolffe covered the Obama campaign for Newsweek and had pretty full access to the candidate...

It's hard to keep up with developments on this front. According to Roll Call this morning, taxing insurance benefits is off the table. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop...

111, Level 10, 43066 If I'd realized DRC is Democratic Republic of Congo, I might have put it in the right hemisphere. Duh.

Thought this was pretty interesting. "The breaking of the sound barrier is not just an audible phenomenon. As a new picture from the U.S. military shows, Mach 1 can be quite visual. This widely circulated new photo shows a Air Force F-22...

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." both from Dorothy Parker

A few weeks ago I was picking up an order at the Chinese takeout. They had CNN on their TV and a story about Farrah coming home from her last failed treatment came on. The guy ahead of me said he must be getting old because he could still remember her in Charlie's Angels. I said everytime I...

Technically a little past puppyhood, but this was the day Taffy joined our family from the shelter. Imagine someone getting tired of that face!

And I thought I was the only one who'd noticed that.

A friend once told me the definition of "grown up" is that you no longer think farts are funny. I'm still about 12.

"You are correct, sir" With Johnny and Ed reunited, the afterlife has the best late night show that ever existed.

Nick's English Hut, Bloomington, Indiana. I killed a lot of brain cells there when I was a student. I've been able to return during the last few years when attending a reunion of college friends and amazingly, Nick's is just as good as I remembered it being - even the food. Going back again...

Dobbs makes no mention of this incident and I tend to think he would have. He certainly didn't leave out any of the other near misses that occurred so I suspect this may have been one of several false or greatly enhanced stories that sprang up around the events of the missile crisis. The...