tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112116392024-03-15T21:09:20.123-04:00Bats Left/Throws RightJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2592125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-57842839063040347212013-07-25T13:02:00.000-04:002013-07-25T13:03:26.360-04:00Fun With Monogamy, Vol. MMCDLXXXITELEVISION Blitherer: The baby's name will be George Alexander Louis.
My Poor Wife: Damn! I was hoping for “Dakota”!
James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-32485491395014335052013-07-24T11:34:00.000-04:002013-07-24T11:34:01.746-04:00You’ll Never Believe It
“I don’t read Reason magazine.”
-Mitch “Cut and Paste” Daniels
NO, that’s not Reason’s ad campaign for this fall, though the way things are going they might consider it; it’s former genius Mitch Daniels trying to extricate himself from the plagiarism scandal he started while trying to extricate himself from last week’s book burning scandal.
Evidently Daniels released a statement last week James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-42332534885775716102013-07-17T07:38:00.002-04:002013-07-17T07:40:07.764-04:00Little Man
SO Mitch Daniels, former CEO of Auction Indiana, Inc., appears to’ve been a little more interested in education reform than previously suspected:
Emails obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request show Daniels requested that historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn's writings be banned from classrooms and asked for a "cleanup" of college courses. In James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-91060029379382856312013-07-14T10:20:00.000-04:002013-07-14T10:20:42.783-04:00Justice I KNOW two things about juries: I don't want my life or my liberty decided by one, and I don't want my sense of justice in the hands of one.
I don't think anyone with a sense of the history of this country imagined that justice was going to come out of that Florida jury. Put another way, Trayvon Martin received the full measure of American justice. Yesterday completed it. George Zimmerman is James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-70308477736930853982013-07-09T14:49:00.002-04:002013-07-09T14:49:33.549-04:00Tuesday Olio: Summer Rerun Edition• In 2006 the homicide rate in Indianapolis skyrocketed. In 2007 we accidentally elected a new Republican mayor, in no small measure because of the furor over the previous year’s murder rate.
We’re off to a record-breaking summer, as they say in the ad biz, up 60% from last year, poised to smash that record season. So much so that the local teleprompter readers have not been able to ignore it, James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-9817802807694581852013-07-03T12:31:00.001-04:002013-07-03T12:31:35.340-04:00Your Victory Celebration Was Gauche. The Only Thing That Will Redeem It Is Giving Up.Kathleen “Pulitzer” Parker, "Wendy Davis shouldn’t be sainted for her filibuster". July 2
JEEZ Louise, I was gonna stop-and-frisk this thing, then I realized that this was quicker and more effective:
The abortion conundrum is further complicated by the dishonesty of our terminology. Simplistic phrases such as “pro-life” and “pro-choice” distort the complexity of how most people feelJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76919788342812916062013-06-27T14:58:00.000-04:002013-06-27T14:58:34.586-04:00Thursday Olio: 20 Years Ago Is Not Ancient History Edition• So Monday Indianapolis was under terrorist attack, and the local news hairdos were beside themselves, so much so that it’s still difficult to straighten out what exactly happened from everything else that was reported, blurted, or thought out loud. In the early morning hours a security guard spotted a backpack, minus a back, at the Federal courthouse. (It's officially the Birch Bayh Federal James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-6280524973006300362013-06-25T11:53:00.000-04:002013-06-25T11:53:17.579-04:00Tuesday Rose Blogging
GRUSS an Aachen ("Jerry").
James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-77392496449566617172013-06-24T12:03:00.000-04:002013-06-24T12:03:20.475-04:00The Bottomless Bottom Of The BarrelOKAY, so better men than I have already dealt with this David Gregory character. I’d just like to add a point raised by his secondary dickishness:
Well the question of who's a journalist may be up to a debate with regard to what you are doing.
I don’t recall any Second amendment discussions on Meet the Press that revolved around what qualifies as a musket.
James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-53001270459973108862013-06-21T15:45:00.001-04:002013-06-21T15:45:39.919-04:00The Sorry State Of American Public RelationsOKAY, fine, so maybe you don't have much to work with with Paula Deen (you might still have taken care of this before it came to people pounding her line of cookware into worthless hunks of metal in the aisles of Target). But Mike Allen's office?
No one thought to blame this on Clinton staffers?
James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-20734542860556012762013-06-20T10:51:00.000-04:002013-06-20T10:51:22.550-04:00The Only Tool You’ll Ever NeedFareed Zakaria, "Obama's Syria policy is full of contradictions". June 19
I USED to think that the only useful service Fareed Zakaria served was as a walking, talking embodiment of the twin contributions of Ivy League brainpower and professional journalism to modern American political life. (Unless, say, you’re the Cheney administration and need the closest thing to Reasonable and Serious James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-20829961047435253532013-06-18T15:11:00.000-04:002013-06-18T15:11:06.831-04:00Oh, That’s Different ThenTESTED by fire:
“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’ ” Mr. Obama told Charlie Rose on his PBS interview show.
Barack Obama is not a raving liberal. Dick Cheney is merely ravening. Or was. Now I think he’s just rabid. At any rate, those things are neither equal, nor are they the twin poles of our political existence.
“Dick James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-38216089165629355872013-06-15T13:40:00.001-04:002013-06-15T13:40:45.097-04:00Reagantot-in-Chief“I THINK it’s good we’re having this discussion” ought to be the official motto of the Democratic party. It’s got everything required: it conveys a lack of backbone over the most serious issues, a willingness to meet hardcore insanity halfway before working on a compromise, and it won’t fit on a bumper sticker.
As usual, I ♡ Pierce:
No. The manifestation of "the security age" that is presently James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-61654495274766951952013-06-13T10:49:00.001-04:002013-06-13T10:49:59.824-04:00Don’t Look UpI SPENT what’s known in the Middle West as the dinner hour last night with my one good eye on the local news. I say “one good” eye because the other was injured two days previous by a panicked box of saltines, which hurled itself off a shelf, from a height of 7 feet, 5 and one-half inches, later verified by a painstaking accident reconstruction, and slammed me in the right window of my soul, justJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-54765445867879092752013-06-10T13:59:00.000-04:002013-06-10T13:59:50.058-04:00Oh, Well, If Marc Thiessen Says It’s All Right...Marc Thiessen, "Big Brother Isn't Watching You". June 10
LISTEN, weren’t these the guys who were just screaming about how it was First amendment apostasy for one guy in Cincinnati to do his job by asking Teabagging “social” organizations to fill out a little paperwork? Impeachable First amendment apostasy?
The exposure of the PRISM program under which the NSA monitors foreign James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-91700769458577713432013-06-06T12:45:00.001-04:002013-06-06T12:45:54.304-04:00Thursday Olio: Friendship Goes Only So Far Edition• It has recently come to the attention of the alabaster town fathers of Carmel, Indiana, Indianapolis’ “Bicycle Friendly”, but snooty, neighbor to the north, that some people ride bicycles fast. In particular, they do so on the Monon Trail, the Rail-Trail project which, if memory serves, scads of angry Carmel property owners fought when it was first proposed, on the grounds that a) it would leadJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-18805715920412487652013-05-31T14:11:00.000-04:002013-05-31T14:11:30.882-04:00The Happy Tiddler WinksBEFORE the week is out we’d like to add a couple points about the Court’s refusal to hear Indiana’s appeal of its Planned Parenthood ban (which, somehow, didn’t have the Chilling Effect On Our Precious Right Of Free Speech that some extra IRS paperwork did). First, I think the Hoosier State once again leads the nation in money spent defending futile un-Constitutional gestures slapped down by evenJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-20792594720547680802013-05-27T14:47:00.000-04:002013-05-27T14:47:10.247-04:00I Never Thought I'd See The Day When I'd Say "Gee, I Miss Bob Dole". And I Still Don't.Daniel Politi, "Bob Dole: Ronald Reagan Wouldn't Make it in Today’s GOP". May 26
I LOVE this construction. Absolutely cannot get enough of it, whether it comes from Reagantots like Davids Brooks and Frum, who somehow went from late adolescence through middle age imagining that they were the sort of people running the Republican party, or guys like Dole, who watched from the distant James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-39127084014279554612013-05-23T11:19:00.002-04:002013-05-23T11:19:41.191-04:00Pyyyyyyle! SO Tuesday the FBI basically shut down the 25th floor of the City-County Building in Indianapolis for half a day, seizing records from the Department of Metropolitan Development. And the US attorney, Joe Hogsett, announced five corruption indictments, including the head of the Land Bank and one of its project managers, a former spokesman for Mayor Gomer F. Ballard, USMC, plus two operators of James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-63859042639445775302013-05-17T14:41:00.002-04:002013-05-17T14:41:50.577-04:00It's Okay America, The Guy Who Killed Cameron Todd Willingham And Then Tried To Impede The Investigation Is On The Case
VIA Pierce we hear that the investigation of the West Fertilizer explosion has definitely concluded that something or other sparked the explosion. Quite possibly some sort of ignition:
WEST (May 16, 2013)—The State Fire Marshal's Office and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have identified three possible causes of the fire that caused the deadly April 17 fertilizer James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-89931893893049008712013-05-16T08:50:00.000-04:002013-05-16T08:50:01.484-04:00I Thought I'd Missed The Kickoff, Then I Realized That Was Sixty-Five Years AgoI'VE been working on my bike tan, finally. I'm sorry that this did not result in the photograph it should have, that of a young woman in running clothes (everyone's in running clothes. People wake up, put on running clothes, then walk two blocks of the Trail to get a coffee, and walk back) holding her cellphone to her face as she wept openly. The picture was entitled "Why you shouldn't carry a James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-64359360735947964482013-05-13T12:13:00.000-04:002013-05-13T12:13:32.964-04:00Beware! Hippies!James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-82227035744380991932013-05-10T14:49:00.000-04:002013-05-10T14:49:32.068-04:00From Transparent To Transparency
HEY, just thought I'd pop in to congratulate Indiana Governor Mike "Deacon" Pence for signing SEA 162 into law this week, a bill which will increase public knowledge of the workings of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, except for the stuff it's been lying about all along. The signing completes this year's efforts to get the Indiana General Assembly out from under all the Mitch James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-31958811581637999452013-05-04T10:06:00.000-04:002013-05-04T10:06:06.523-04:00Kid StuffKathleen Parker, "Prude or prudent? the debate over access to Plan B". May 3
ANYONE else wishing that the Bureau had shown 1/10th the public relations doggedness about the Anthrax Letter Bomber?
Anyway, "Pulitzer" Parker's fingerprints are all over this one:
They lost me at the word “women.”
Yeah, in 1971.
As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76767260632491559152013-05-02T12:36:00.000-04:002013-05-02T12:36:47.926-04:00LahrsWON'T someone please overlook the children?
“Down in Kentucky where we’re from, you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation,” Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. “You start at a young age with guns for hunting and everything.”
What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is “that a kid would get shot with it.”
Y'know, there're more seat belts than there areJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.com10