mid 90s

I spent the last couple of days with a cooler and cases of bottled water, roaming downtown and East Nashville looking for folks cooking to medium rare in the afternoon sweat-bath. While I haven't seen the "hot-helpers" I know they've been out because I've been told by my clients on the street that the only other place they've been able to find water is from the Mission folks.

Here's an interesting piece (from American Spectator) about the Democratic Party's response to the Heller decision. From the article:

THAT BRINGS US to the most prominent Illinois Democrat of them all.

I've been cleaning up a lot around here lately, trying to make room for the fiance, who's moving here when we get married in late June. So far, I've cleaned off one shelf of a bookshelf [still!], sold my CD player and speakers, and gotten rid of a lot of miscellaneous junk that I don't really want him to replace with junk of his own.

Yeah right. A surprisingly honest article from the New York Times.

The article that appeared today in The New Republic was, of course,  designed to be a hit piece–do maximum damage on an important day.  Having said that…

Up to this point, I haven't responded to the comments that are going on from Friday's post for a couple of reasons. 1) I've been involved in many of those conversations over the years, in particular a message board confrontation with the editor of Firm Foundation, back in the mid 90s. 2) I recognize Chris' type from many experiences of listening to conservative Church of Christ lectureships and

Tomorrow's NY Times underscores the problem of privately-funded opulence in the heart of crumbling urban infrastructure: