This was one of three books given to me on Father’s Day, and it’s a good one.
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson is the tale of two divers and a U-boat sunk late in the second [...]
Room service serving beer and wine to another at 11am. An old man with a gray and white beard down to his belt buckle. Women in cowboy hats and spaghetti-strap halter-tops. Twenty-something girls with their own bikes. A truck with a lift kit and a front bumper bent inward at the middle.
This evening though, I [...]
Had a conversation of some concern in my hotel room.
The maid had come by around 5pm for “turndown service”, where she drops a couple of chocolates on the nightstand and folds the sheets down on the bed. She asked what I was doing this evening. I said I was just hanging out. She said that [...]
AP reports that the House passed a bill to freeze labor, health, and education while funding $870 million in Medicare drugs (Thanks W!) I suppose the House Republicans deserve credit for not letting the new entitlement add to the deficit.
Here’s the gem I found though:
In a high-profile vote Thursday, lawmakers turned back an effort to [...]
I was really hoping to fly under the radar in this Book Tag business; I haven’t read all the wonderful stuff posted by most people on the list.
Supreme Co-Tyrant Justice John Paul Stevens writes (link dead):
“The city has carefully formulated an economic development that it believes will provide appreciable benefits to the community, including — but by no means limited to — new jobs and increased tax revenue,” Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority.
So What?
A Reuters article (link dead) on Yahoo! reveals that Senator Mike DeWine (Republicrat-OH) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) sponsored an amendment to energy legislation that allows the U.S. government to sue OPEC for antitrust violations.
Tuesday’s edition of the Newark (OH) Advocate contains a guest column from State Senator Jay Hottinger touting an Ohio bill to establish an “option of covenant marriage. This is a voluntary designation that commits the couple to going through counseling and longer waiting periods before a divorce is granted.”
