I just read in Bill Crider's blog of the passing of Stuart Kaminsky at age 75. I will miss his writings, but selfishly for me and his readers, he left a large legacy. I especially like his Toby Peters character, but he had many other characters I will be sure to enjoy. RIP Mr. Kaminsky.

David Brooks of the New York Times brings up a point that I wondered about. That is, how many dittoheads can Limbaugh count on to follow his marching orders? Brooks has looked into it a little and believes not many, or at least not as many as he and his ilk think they can deliver. Like the wizard of oz, could Rush be just an empty shirt?

This is Saturday, it must be time for Ohio state football. It is. Ohio State plays Wisconsin at 3:00.

I read Archie comics when I was a young boy. I am now seventy-two and Archie is making a big splash with his soap opera style marriage dilemma. He looks like he has aged quite well. Matter of fact they all look exactly like they did when I would keep in touch with them each month. If I understand what is going on, it seems Archie decided on Veronica and she accepted. Things were put into motion for publication etc. People started protesting, polls were taken, and Betty Cooper beat out Veronica Lodge by a handy margin. Now here is where I lose track about what is going on. Evidently they have come out with an alternative issue where Archie asks Betty for her hand in marriage and she accepts. What is it about Archie that makes him so appealing to the ladies? Is it the freckles? So now I don't know if it will all be explained as dream sequences or if the publishers will make the great decision or will let the polls speak and proclaim Betty as the winner. The winner of Archie in fact. I guess any Father-In-Law would like Archie as a Son-In-Law. He's a nice boy (although he has to be secretly about eighty years old or more).

How many versions of MOON RIVER have I heard? This is a good one.

No to Afghanistan.

Chinese tune KANDING QINGGE

CHINA

Rush Limbaugh and a friend are thinking of buying the St. Louis Ram professional football team for some humongous figure. The news item in inself is not too exciting to me, but it conjured up another thought. I wonder if Rush, the skinny and very rich man would be interested in buying a baseball team? I am thinking of my favorite team, the Cleveland Indians. They have owners that for the life of me I wonder why they want to own the team. They are poor mouthers from way back. Don't they know owning a professional team is only for the very rich who buy a club for the excitement of it all. Plus they must be willing to spend, spend, and spend to achieve the 'championship'. I think in baseball it is called the world series, but for Cleveland fans we have to look it up to be sure.

Rush send some of your millions to Cleveland, we have a lot of young kids playing here now, but our owners insist on sending our Cy Young award winners away. Think how much fun you could have if you kept them here in Cleveland for a while.

FIST FIGHT. MOSTLY BLUSTER, TWO PUNCHES, DONE.

Why I watched this I don't know. I thought it must have a happy ending or at least I hoped. I, of course, suspected the aggressor was the bad guy in the piece, and I assume he was. Mr. Blackshirt when he finally was pushed to his limit must have uncorked a doozy to Mr. No Sleeves. Kind of a mini Clint Eastwood where the bad guy gets his.

EASY FOR YOU TO SAY.

Darn, I love hamburgers, but seeing reports like this make it harder and harder to step up and order a double burger. Perhaps a chocolate shake and something besides the burger will have to do. Darn.

Eiffel's elevators

Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple, Tokyo, Japan, 1936 by Fritz Henle, University of Texas.

1940 Poster for a lecture by Max Lerner at Roosevelt High, Des Moines, Iowa, showing an armored gauntlet clenched in a fist.

Brings up thoughts I had, along with many more people during the last administration, when habeas corpus was rescinded. Do we just keep recycling history?

Now this is my kind of calorie counter. Start slow and work up to slow.

and..a medicine I can handle easily, and five cups of liquid will also give me extra exercise going back and forth to the necessary. (as they called it in the colonial days)