Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

According the US Federal calendar, yes, it is. However... It has long been my sense that the US has Labor Day when we do because of May Day's communist-socialist overtones. That is one thing that makes the people who run this country wet themselves with…

We went to the state fair today! Amtrak has service from Rochester directly to the fairgrounds during the Fair, and we took that. It was a much more pleasant way to get there than dealing with the nightmarish parking situation. It's not a State Fair…

There's some I hope that train comes for quicker (Pumpkin? Yes.) We need that press (0:10) today.

It's apparently a tenet of our fascist, capitalist system: healthcare - like everything* - must be run for profit. So if you aren't rich enough to help fund your local HMO CEO's Caribbean villa, you can just die. Now, if you aren't super-pumped about that…

John McCain hagiography is on every channel today, but I say, feh. McCain needed Pumpkin to make him look any good. And never forget, McCain gave us the proto-Pumpkin, the one who led the way: Sarah Palin. The archetypal fact-free babbler who dropped most of…