Sen. Joe Biden came out this evening as the pitt bull he is known to be and attacked McCain as offering up ‘more of the same.’
Biden said Obama would turn the tide and pledged to serve “every American who was trying to do the right thing.”

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Former President Bill Clinton passed the torch tonight and will now get out of the way, hopefully for Obama. 
His message points were delivered with outrageous hypocrisy but what else is new in politics or better yet what else is new with the Clinton’s?

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Sen. Hillary Clinton was allowed to give her swan song speech of this presidential year election at Obama’s Democratic Convention. It was probably her best speech ever, all about her with token references to husband Bill and only 10 mentions supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama.

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A Lion stepped up to the plate tonight — much like Babe Ruth — at the Democratic Convention and hit an emotional home run while dealing with a death struggle of brain cancer.
Ted Kennedy, ignoring doctor’s orders, appeared on the Convention floor before tumultuous applause to speak in behalf of Barack Obama for President, passing the baton [...]

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During World War II there was a saying that, ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.”
Loose lips can also sink candidates and yesterday following a 3 AM text message – that Hillary Clinton didn’t answer – from Obama announcing to his followers that Sen Joseph R. Biden Jr., (D-Del) was his selection for Vice President, the two appeared together to [...]

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I have been planning to write a column on Spitting & Baseball for some time now, but after watching this evening’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Angels (TB 4 LA 2) the spitting issue seemed to come more into focus.

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I live in one of the worst places to be when a tropical storm approaches, a barrier reef in the Gulf of Mexico.
They built up my expectations as Fay approached, as they always do when a tropical storm forms and heads towards Florida.

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If the Russian invasion of Georgia, coupled with the wars the US is engaged in Iraq and Afganistan and the signal that Vladimir Putin sent to the world when he made the power play in Russia to become Prime Minister, placing Dmitry Mededev as a puppet President, isn’t enough to bring back the draft in the United [...]

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China’s Politburo wanted their Olympics to be flawless even to the point where they would commit fraud by substituting the voice of a 7-year-old Chinese girl who was not good-looking enough for another little girl with a pixie smile who lip-synced “Ode to the Motherland”.

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“I’ll have a Tanqueray gin on the rocks.”
“How would you like your ice?” Fragmented, nugget or cubed, shaved, dimpled on the ends with or without bubbles or mystically clear?”
“Hell, my friend, I just want a drink that’s cold . . . I don’t want to buy a tie.”

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