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July 27, 2016
Congratulations Chicago's Hillary Rodham, Wellesley '69
Nicely done. Even though you've been in the national spotlight since age 21, you are thank God no natural pol. That's why the accomplishment means so much to so many of us. You are very much what Greek thinkers had in mind. Well-fought. Congratuations. Now? It's your election for the taking.
Posted by JD Hull at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
July 24, 2016
Don't get hysterical about POTUS elections: November 2016 will be our 58th time.
ATTENTION Family, Friends, Clients, Coworkers, Fellow Duke Alums, Ex-Girlfriends, Squash Partners:
1. Every 4 years for the last 227 years, America's gone through the exact same POTUS election hysterics as you are now seeing on television & social media.
2. No remaining candidate for America's presidency in the 2016 elections will destroy the USA or the World.
3. That is all.
FDR in his 30s
Posted by JD Hull at 03:53 PM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2016
The Last Boomer: "It was the rock 'n' roll, mate".
I see them in the streets
I see them in the field
I hear them shouting under my feet
And I know it's got to be real.Oh, Lord, deliver me
All the wrong I've done
You can deliver me, Lord
I only wanted to have some fun.--Blind Willie Johnson
Even if he or she had been a head of state or Nobel laureate, I predict that the last thing the Last Baby Boomer says is this: "The best part? That's easy. It was the rock 'n' roll, mate". This year I am thankful for Jimmy Page. When England's best session guitarist finally chucked the Yardbirds, not as many people believed that fellow ex-Yardbird "Eric Clapton is God", and 4 guys started writing and playing about everything from femme fatales to The Rapture or something like it. Don't be fooled by the outfits or the legions of half-wit lemmings who followed them around. Led Zeppelin was the best band of musicians in rock and were otherwise, well, on to something. My bet? Centuries from now people will talk about them and listen to them more than the The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Beatles, The Who and The Doors combined.
Posted by JD Hull at 09:34 PM | Comments (0)
July 18, 2016
What Matters.
#allcatslivesmatter #alldogslivesmatter
To be completely honest, I am not sure about anyone else.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:47 PM | Comments (0)
July 17, 2016
Washington Examiner on Energy & Environment.
Writer John Siciliano at right-leaning but non-hysterical and quite talented Washington Examiner does fine work on energy and environment law and policy, the same issues I've done for 25 years. Here is "Obama's clean energy goal fails without nuclear, industry says". First rate as always.
Image: AP photo
Posted by JD Hull at 04:49 PM | Comments (0)
July 15, 2016
Peirce Mill: Since 1829 in Rock Creek Park.
Above: Peirce Mill in 1918, already nearly a century old, located at the key Washington, D.C. crossroads of Tilden Street and Beach Drive on Rock Creek Park. Below: One view of the mill and part of its extensive grounds since the 2011 restoration. The mill now runs again where it started. Issac Peirce built it in either 1820 or 1829. Friends of Peirce Mill offer this quick but thorough history of its operations and uses in the last two centuries. Journalist, author and environmentalist Steven Joyce Dryden helped other locals with the restoration. Dryden later wrote extensively about the mill's long history in Peirce Mill: 200 Years in the Nation's Capital (Bergamot 2009), 108 pages. Dryden, a former UPI reporter stationed in Europe, is also author of The Trade Warriors: USTR and the American Crusade for Free Trade.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
July 05, 2016
July 5, 2016. Just as Bad: Eric Clapton weighs in on Tuesdays.
Tuesday's just as bad.
"Sundays I go to church.
I get down on my knees.
I begin to pray.
And this is what I say:
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy on me.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy on me.
Just trying to find my baby.
Won't someone please send her home to me?"
Posted by JD Hull at 12:27 AM | Comments (0)
July 01, 2016
Modern Men: Indoor Neutered Cats.
I see it on the streets, in stores, at sporting events, in airports and in both cities and town. The female demand for Indoor Cats--i.e., neutered, obedient heterosexual Western men who do as they are told--is apparently quite high these days in Europe and America. Ladies, how are these "men" in bed?
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