I just bought a new laptop computer, and now I'm looking for a backpack with a padded laptop compartment, so I don't break my new toy in the first month. So as I'm looking on Amazon and reading reviews, I notice that a lot of laptops are labeled "Checkpoint Friendly," meaning they open up easily so they can be scanned at the airport. Fuck. When pundits first started complaining … [Read more...] about Checkpoint Friendly
Coastal Dash 2012 Update
I've been exchanging email with a few people about my upcoming dash to the coast at the end of the month. I have tentative plans with a couple of people, and for a little while it looked like Jamison Koehler was going to put together a blogmeet with some other DC bloggers, but that fell through because he's going to be out of town. It does look like I might make it a little … [Read more...] about Coastal Dash 2012 Update
Second Annual Windypundit Coastal Dash
In about a month I'm going to take another road trip out to the east coast. I'll be driving from Chicago to the Jersey shore, and then on the return trip I'll probably swing south through Virginia and Kentucky on my way back to Chicago.The last time I made this trip, my wife and I met up with fellow blogger Mirriam and her great family outside of Washington. I haven't made any … [Read more...] about Second Annual Windypundit Coastal Dash
What the Nobel Peace Prize Winner is Up To These Days
Andrew Napolitano describes it this way: The leader of the government regularly sits down with his senior generals and spies and advisers and reviews a list of the people they want him to authorize their agents to kill. They do this every Tuesday morning when the leader is in town. The leader once condemned any practice even close to this, but now relishes the killing because … [Read more...] about What the Nobel Peace Prize Winner is Up To These Days
Decoration Day
Memorial Day always makes me think of my father. He was a veteran of World War II and he was born on May 30, the traditional date for Memorial Day, although my dad always called it by its original name, Decoration Day. It was, in origin, a day for decorating the graves of soldiers. Fortunately, the day doesn't have a lot of personal significance for me. Other than veterans like … [Read more...] about Decoration Day