Month: January 2008

Thispost's title comes courtesy of my brother-in-law, who wrote this article about Mitt Romney for the San Francisco Chronicle and called tonight to commiserate over Romney's crushing defeat.  And, make no mistake, this is a crushing defeat. After spending millions more dollars than his rivals, Romney ekes out a distant second-place finish to an underfunded, ... Read more

Withless than three hours before the caucus begins, I just got off the phone with a Romney campaign guy on the ground in Iowa. The lay of the land: The Romney campaign stopped doing their overnight tracking poll during the Christmas season and did their first poll in a couple of weeks last night. The ... Read more

Clickhere for The Ammon Song. Right-click it to download, or just click it and Quicktime or another media player should play it right in your browser. Elsewhere in this post where you see a link highlighting a song title, do the same and take a listen and/or download. Do not try to sell these, though, ... Read more

Completedlate this New Year's Day. A few changes from the previously published lyrics... 1) Turns out that the whole Ammon story takes place by the Waters of Sebus, not Sidon. Except nothing good rhymes with Sebus, and "Ammon was ridin' by the Waters of Sidon" is such a fun, faux-Western lyric. So I changed ... Read more

It's26 degrees. ... Read more