Here it is, my next installment of a series that will probably generate more hits than any ten diaries about politics. The sacrifices I make for this site ...

I have to mention one incident that I experienced recently. Several weeks ago my family and I were in Hawaii, and noticed that there was a Costco. Since we're members, we popped in to see if there was anything worth picking up. What I saw could make a grown man cry (and I nearly did) - 1.75 liter bottles of fine scotch and bourbon for the same price (or less) than I pay for 750 ml bottles in Washington State. It just ain't fair.

I can't think of any democrat who is more despised by the left, than "my guy Joe". Notwithstanding, who has the Obama Admin turned to as a wingman (left wing, to be accurate? If you answered, my guy Joseph Lieberman, you are spot on. Time describes the situation as follows:

I recently stopped by the liquor store and saw a large assortment of sample bottles on display. I've never been a connoisseur of fine liquor - I drink hard liquor, but usually in shots or a mixed drink - so I decided to pick up a selection of several different liquors and do a little taste testing.

I cringed, slunk down in my seat, I squirmed, I looked at the woman next to me and wondered if the agony of this movie wasn't because it was entirely being told from the young girl's point of view and, for all my adoring of women, I still had several divorces behind me and....I maybe didn't understand women at all.

The movie was gorgeously filmed; the setting 1961 London...and the Education of a Young Lady, unfairly seduced, but eager, after a fashion, as young girls are, to be complicit in her own seduction as were her parents...

Let's get off to a good start.

Meanwhile, the LA Kings have won eight hockey games in a row.

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Precis: Psychosexual frustration is a defining characteristic of modern terrorism. Faced with the Manichaean dichotomy of religious purity and the sins of the flesh, the terrorist sublimates his libido into violence against the society which tempts him. Where the id is, there also is the ego.

Today is of course National Hump Day, which this year happens to fall on a Wednesday.

This is a link to an incendiary blog post. This is a sentence that implies agreement with the author of the incendiary post, while leaving some wiggle room in case the author turns out to be a nut.

My old stomping ground engages in a little class warfare*.

*Class warfare (klas wôr'fâr), n.: the act of the lower classes hitting back.

How about a gala-event on the Capital Steps with Thune or Brown presenting the "GOP's Big Five" with Congressional conservatives standing behind them. That's right, if any "blue dog" Congress critter would like to join them, they would be welcome; it should be a post-partisan event.

While I have some recommendations on what the "GOP's Big Five" should cover (see below), the critical aspect is to make sure that KISS is applied. That is, keep it so simple that even the main stream (the "ELITE") media can't distort it. One page bills, where applicable, are recommended.

Big Five