So the downside to living in New England is that it’s impossible to throw a rock without hitting something of historical interest.

Quonset Point being a good case in general. They built all those round huts featured in WWII and points aft, and are currently building subsections for the New SSN (Attach Submarine).

More likely resonant with people is its prevalence as a suburb of Providence, right on the water, and the possibility that there’s pollution happening. In any case, I’ve probably contributed to that – Quonset is an area that we used to use for weapons qualifications, squeezing hundreds of rounds of 9mm and M-16 ammo, depositing copper and lead into the hillsides.

So Kucinich is pretty vapid in general (see his search for a wife ), but the one piece of his that I’m actually fascinated by is his proposal to create a ‘Department of Peace’ (Notice the Reuters-style ‘scare quotes’).

No, truthfully, I think that there may be something here. I’m not happy at all that the entire focus on

(BTW- John Wayne movie on AMC – ‘It’s all right, I haven’t cooked for a man in a long time‘. He’s a Navy Officer, too, about to bang a subordinate female officer after getting her drunk. Man, I tell you, life is good. I wish to hell I’d been able to go to Officer Candidate School in Newport. “Whaddya skin?” “Lieutenant Nurses who pull my leg”, says the Duke.)

killing people and breaking things as solutions to life’s problems. I also think that the State department has fallen on its sword with its continual kowtowing to the UN, etc (which passes to the argument that the UN’s pretty ineffective).

(“Oh, I don’t know, gin I guess, but not much” says the cute ensign nurse)

So I’m watching C-Span at 9 PM on a Saturday night in Downtown Newport, RI (Playground of the rich and famous, and home to about 500 rich high school girls at boarding school). And Al Franken is giving a speech at U-Midwest, somewhere.

The dude’s funny. Stuart Smiley lives on.

Regardless, he’s the first of you lefties that I’ve actually been able to take somewhat seriously. It’s almost enough for me to buy that there may actually be a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ in the media. He doesn’t get nearly the even-handed coverage that he ought to get.

I’m also 2/3 of a bottle of wine and a beer to the wind, but he’s making a lot of sense. Great bit with the second question he answered regarding media bias, and why liberal bias really doesn’t affect coverage. He really seems to understand markets… No, he really seems to be someone with whom I could sit down and drink much beer.

Do we have a POC for him to see if he can come on as a desk commentator?

Blah, blah, blah – spoilers in the review.

“Government is so inefficient,” the official wrote, “Choking bureaucrats with money will foster waste, mismanagement and greed that will eventually reach critical mass and destroy the programs. It’s all part of compassionate conservatism. We could have just cut spending, but that would have made us look less than compassionate. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the conservative part later.”

From Scrappleface