
Today is a day without any official [or unofficial] designation, so feel free to make up your own pseudo-holiday and celebrate it in any way you want [remembering always to practice appropriate behavior, of course]...

What do you call a politician brave enough to endorse an unchallenged candidate? What do you call that politician if he withdraws his endorsement when there is a challenger? Senator Daylin Leach.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer thug. Allentown union official Nick Balzano has been a political punching bag all week because he threatened to file a grievance against the city for allowing a Boy Scout to clear a walking path in a city park. ...

Al Gore went on national television and said this: People think about geothermal energy – when they think about it at all – in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth...

Today is National Cranberry Day and also National Cashew Day. Hmmm. Cranberries and Cashews, two of my favorite snacks. Mix them together with some dark chocolate, and a few other ingredients and you have pure perfection. Uh, excuse me…, time to run out to Trader Joe’s for some provisions. Ah...

(1) Commonwealth Foundation blogs that one of those caught up in the global warming email scandal is a Penn State climatologist...

The recent theft and publication of electronic records from the Britain’s Climate Research Center has revealed a conspiracy of climate alarmists to falsify research and to suppress contrary evidence on climate change. One of the chief conspirators, referenced in several e-mails, is Michael E. ...

A murder of crows. Something to strike terror into the heart of any crow — a red-tailed hawk skimming low over a field. Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang…. Bl

WPVI: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant. Specialist John White has told ABC News that there is no indication that radiation at the plant exceeded or even approached regulatory limits...

WPXI has video of the crowd waiting for Sarah Palin at the Trinity Point Sam’s Club in Washington, PA. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a short article about the event. ...

The Fighting Quakers cruised to an easy victory over Cornell today 34-0 to remain undefeated in League play and secure undisputed possession of the Ivy title. Cheer Hurrah! Hurrah! for the boys in blue and red. Lift your glasses high and toss a toast or two for “Dear Old Penn”. ps...

If they really want to win elections, that is. From my column in today’s Pottstown Mercury: For years, voters have lamented the fact that there is no difference between the parties; that Democrats and Republicans are all the same. And for the most part, they are right. ...

Excellent piece by Jonah Goldberg over at the National Review on the subject of Palinophobia. He makes a lot of sense. I particularly liked this line: [S]ome of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies...






