More whining about busted eggs from Nordlinger's co-wrecklers.

Another Non-Portuguese Get's to Plough Those Fields of Green

Heard of him before? Any of 'em? I sure hadn't. Am so beneath it might as well do a Hardy.

Beautiful story

Pinko rich boy goes after the fighter pilot

Ah, but they support the troops, don't they? Rockefeller's tirade (coming from one of those tribunes of the people, defending the little guy from the Big Bad Kapitalists, right?) is of the same cloth as Kerry's diatribe against all US soldiers when he testified before Congress in 1971-72. Same old, same old. Bring back Jeremiah Wright -- at least with him, we know exactly where he stands.

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

Any skeletons in those closets? Will any of these wacko conspiracy theories pop up in the Fall? I hate October surprises.

Obama's Baby-Boomer Watershed...

Still, at this point, gonna cast my vote for Rudy, but I haven't seen a piece like this on Obama yet. To Andrew Sullivan, Obama symbolizes a departure from the self-absorbed Vietnam War Generation. See the excerpt below.

...how do we account for the bitter, brutal tone of American politics? The answer lies mainly with the biggest and most influential generation in America: the Baby Boomers. The divide is still—amazingly—between those who fought in Vietnam and those who didn’t, and between those who fought and dissented and those who fought but never dissented at all. By defining the contours of the Boomer generation, it lasted decades. And with time came a strange intensity... How has a black, urban liberal gained far stronger support among Republicans than the made-over moderate Clinton or the southern charmer Edwards? Perhaps because the Republicans and independents who are open to an Obama candidacy see his primary advantage in prosecuting the war on Islamist terrorism. It isn’t about his policies as such; it is about his person. They are prepared to set their own ideological preferences to one side in favor of what Obama offers America in a critical moment in our dealings with the rest of the world. The war today matters enormously. The war of the last generation? Not so much. If you are an American who yearns to finally get beyond the symbolic battles of the Boomer generation and face today’s actual problems, Obama may be your man.

Still, I'm a bit confused by Sullivan's support of McCain (on page 2 of 4 in the article). Although McCain is received as bipartisan (most-recently by the editorial board of the New York Times), he directly participated in the Vietnam War and, as we all know, was a hostage for quite some time. Props to McCain. I think he'd be just fine as well. But Sullivan doesn't, so far, account for this.

Yet I'm inclined to agree with Sullivan's bigger picture, that is, healing the rift between the American Left and Right so as to confront the Islam Jihad menace on both political legs.

Viet-Brajoliena

Vietnamese Coffee

I used to get these at a local Vietnamese restaurant. I wondered if Pepe ever tried 'em. They are good, and in the summer I recommend pouring the entire mix over a glass of ice.