The Dems' Racial/Gender Meltdown (Every Day is Christmas!)

I caught your comments on a recent Ashley Herzog column on femanists. I noticed you had a blog so I had to check it out.

Your comments are refreshing for TH and from what I have briefly glanced at so far looks like I won't be too disappointed. Good Stuff.

Oh and Western Bond Beam is a construction term as I caught the latest comments on the Herzog thread. I responded there to you but thought I would check out the Blogatorium first hand in case you were not checking that thread anymore.

Thanks for the comment! I never know if anyone is actually reading anything I post. :-)

I had a lot of fun posting over at Herzog's column. I read your explanatory, and very complimentary post, there too. So thanks for that, too.

Having the blog has been fun, too. I hope you'll keep checking in. I look forward to chatting with you here and over in TH land.

Cheers!

Norman

I've gotta agree. It has been entertaining to watch. When will the suspense end? It's beginning to be like watching Lost, though. I'm ready for the whole thing to end and all the questions answered.

Anyway, I got here after seeing your post on Adams latest column.
You signed it "Love and Rockets"
A truly great band which I've missed.

Thanks for stopping by!

Yes, it really has been fun, watching the Dems implode. As I mentioned in the article/post/whatever you call it, I'm not generally given to schadenfreude, but I've been called a racist enough times by liberals that I am really and truly loving this!

To paraphrase the punchline of an old joke that is rather "off-color" (if you'll pardon the choice of words), it's finally THEIR turn in the barrel!

The "Love and Rockets" salutation started as a running joke between me and my Goth college roommate. His favorite movie was "The Hunger," which led him to Bauhaus, which ultimately led him to Love and Rockets. He listened to both groups quite a bit, which is how I was introduced to them. When we would leave notes for each other ("Let's go eat at 6," "Where are you, loser?" "Bite me, a**hole!" and so forth) we would sign them "Love and Rockets." (We were actually good friends, not just roommates, but of course most young men have no way of showing affection, other than insults. We were obviously no different!)

Since then, even though honestly I do not listen to the group, I have used "Love and Rockets" as a tongue-in-cheek salutation. (I do listen to Peter Murphy sing "Bela Lugosi's Dead" from time to time, on my iPod, but that's another band of course.)

Anyway, glad my "sign-off" brought you to my blog! I'll try to get it updated and interesting (while trying equally hard not to get fired!).

Cheers!

"Love and Rockets" is of course a valediction, not a salutation.

That's what I get for using big words! Mea maxima culpa!

first time today (after you said a nice thing to me on the latest Wirs column.) I enjoyed reading your latest blog entry; but truly the most fun was in reading your biography! Please enlighten further as to why you will never vote for McCain.
I have been saying this for months, but I feel myself wavering....why, I do not know. Maybe because the thought of Hillary or Obama makes me want to vomit. My uber-lib sister was visiting last week and all she could say was "that McCain will be so dangerous if he were to win" (she loves Hillary/Obama.) Actually I agreed with her, except our reasons are completely opposite!

By the way, I have enjoyed your blog.

I recently found a Love and Rockets CD from back in the day. It's in the car now, and every time we go anywhere my two oldest girls (3 and 7) want to here the "train song!" (Kundalini Express) This worries me somewhat as they sing along, going "HOO HOOOO" at the right times.
I've created monsters.
No Bauhaus yet, but a little Bob Mould.

Ah, those were the days. I never got into the whole Goth, black thing, but certainly loved the music and the concerts.

Yes, I remember that comment. You were calling someone to task for going all "Jeremiah Wright." I was glad to see that, and wanted to express my appreciation.

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the bio. I need to fix a typo or two in it, and might even spice it up just a bit--with your favorable comment as inspiration.

Regarding McCain, you have inspired me to update the blog with an article on just that topic. I'm going to try to squeeze it in this morning. So stay tuned! Cheers!

Thanks for the follow-up post and the encouragement. I'll try to keep the blog interesting!

I never went Goth at all, and in fact used to razz my roommate (whom I mentioned in my previous post) about dying his hair black, then shaving one side of his head (but not the other). Smoking clove cigarettes was allowed in our dorm, so he started in with that.

Then he changed his major from Engineering to English, despite some serious issues with dyslexia and spoonerisms.

Great guy, but rather confused. I think a lot of people get into the whole Goth thing that way.

I went the "geek" route instead, musically speaking--Talking Heads and B-52's mostly. I once saw the B-52's in concert, which was really cool (for a geek like me, that is!).

Anyway, it sounds like you've got a good back-up started there with your daughters. I'd keep them away from Bauhaus, though . . .

Cheers!

I'm working on the whole choir! Stop by my place some time.

Added you to my blogroll.

I will definitely stop by your place. Thanks for adding the Blogatorium to your blogroll!!!

Best of luck with the "choir." :-)

The real kicker is....Ferraro has not only been correct, she's been the only adult in that conversation!

I really like your blogatorium. I'm definitely putting you on my blogroll so I can remember to visit often.

. . . I just responded to your post to the "McCain's Slogan" entry. I saw that you made a third post, as well.

Glad to have you here, and I'm very flattered by your kind words about my Blogatorium.

You've got a point about Ferraro. I don't have anything against her, other than my generic objections to knee-jerk lefties, and it's hard to dismiss what she said out of hand.

I actually think that she's at best half-right. Being black is not an advantage, so much as it is a partial pass. Guilty white liberals have had a lot to do with Barack's climb, but I have to give him some credit to. He's no cretin like Sharpton or "Rev." Jesse, so there's a lot more than white guilt in play, IMHO.

He's a sharp guy and a good talker.

I also think that he'll be the one signing your retirement letter (much to our mutual chagrin--it's a prediction, not a wish).

It's too bad, because underneath the flash and the rhetoric, he's just another unreconstructed socialist, who will be "Jimmy Carter bad" for the country.

At least, though, conservatism won't be dead, and the country will have some chance of getting back on track after he crashes the train.

Thanks, by the way, for your service! I got out of the Army as a Chief Warrant Officer 2, albeit a number of years short of retirement (couldn't stand having Bubba as my CIC). You're smart to have stuck it out.