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[ flowersatdonohohouse5.jpg] Like a line of people waiting to get into the theater. Finally, I have some flowers on the porch. When we renovated our house several years ago, like many people do, we had trouble with our contractor. He would not listen to me. Our house was transformed from a New Orleans style with balcony to a wide front porch

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I got the Happy Flu from James Joyner at Outside the Beltway. If you have a blog and want to see where this goes (and this is the first place you saw it) click on Spread It below and post an entry with your own new code…

“The Ambiguously American Candidate.” That’s what I thought yesterday when I saw this photo. It is striking to note that Obama’s plane flys around the world sporting an iiiiittty bitty American flag (out of camera range when he walks down to tarmacs) and many prominent O symbols. I wrote to a pal yesterday:

Bobby Jindal has taken himself out of consideration for being McCain's running mate. That's a good decision. While I'm quite excited about Jindal, he needs to work to complete the job he just got elected to do - help Louisiana. If he continues as successfully as he's begun, he will definitely be a contender in the future

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Lucas With the Lid Off - Fun music, great video all done in one continuous shot: Cantaloop by Us 3 - riffing off of Herbie Hancock ShareThis

So, at the same time Congressional Dems are pushing a gas tax hike, they’re benefiting from special gas tax breaks from Denver for the party’s convention. [...] Read the rest »