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National Review cruise – day 2

National Review cruise – day 2

| November 13, 2011 | Reply

I’d like to post more, but the onboard ‘net access is expensive, slow, and flaky. Great sessions today: Jay Nordlinger interviewing Fred Thompson and John Sununu about running for president; a rather frank panel discussion on the potential 2012 Republican candidates involving John Miller, Tony Blankley, John Fund, Mona Charen, Robert Costa, and Raph Reed; […]

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National Review cruise — day 1: underway

National Review cruise — day 1: underway

| November 12, 2011 | Reply

It’s 10:30 or so at night, and we’re miles out to sea. It took longer than expected to get onto the ship, but we’ve been exploring it since we got here. No sessions yet, though I think there is a late night gathering of some sort. We did, however, find ourselves standing behind Cal Thomas […]

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Start of my National Review Cruise log

Start of my National Review Cruise log

| November 11, 2011 | Reply

I’m posting this entry from 30,000 feet (and how quickly that has become commonplace). My sweet wife Sandra and I are sailing on the National Review Cruise tomorrow — seven days of traveling around the Caribbean while listening to and hobnobbing with people like Mark Steyn, Fred Thompson, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, James Lileks, […]

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You knew this was coming…

You knew this was coming…

| October 9, 2011 | Reply

…you probably just didn’t expect it to be so well done. Hat tip to American Digest. ..bruce w..

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So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

So long, Steve, and Godspeed.

| October 5, 2011 | 3 Replies

The second personal computer I ever owned[1] was an Apple II, with no floppy drive. I bought it, along with a small color TV, from my close friend Robert Trammel while we were both living in Houston sometime around 1980.We had already spent hours together programming on it, then carefully (though not always successfully) saving […]

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For those of you wondering…

For those of you wondering…

| September 14, 2011 | Reply

…here’s where I come out on the Political Compass Test.  About where I’d figured, given the questions.  ..bruce w..

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9/11/2001: In retrospect

9/11/2001: In retrospect

| September 11, 2011 | Reply

Here are our 9/11-related posts from this blog: In Memoriam: Ronald Paul Bucca (May 6, 1954 – September 11, 2001) In Memoriam: Robert David Peraza (May 26, 1971- September 11, 2001) “There are not many who remember…” A Day That Lives In Infamy Lest We Forget (2008) Lest We Forget (2007) Remembering the WTC Not […]

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Europe to the left of me, China to the right….

Europe to the left of me, China to the right….

| August 3, 2011 | Reply

[Original song above — I lack the talent and mad skillz to do a parody recording myself] Well I don’t know how I’ll keep my career I got the feeling that I’m out on my rear I’m so scared that my pension is gone And my furniture is out on the lawn Europe to the […]

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Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July!

| July 4, 2011 | Reply

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which […]

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Deacon (1993-2011)

Deacon (1993-2011)

| June 23, 2011 | Reply

Sandra and I didn’t expect to end up with a new dog of our own when we took her sister Betty Jo to look at MinPin puppies in December 1994. The owner of the puppies, John Batchie, was a house painter in Escondido who lived in the upstairs portion of a converted barn on his […]

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