First Looks category archive

My friend Chris has made some pens for my son, Lt. Frank’s son, 82nd Airborne, USA, and his wife.

He made them out of a whippletree from Pine View Farm. He shipped them last week.

See the pen-making process here.

Chris is a true craftsman and a good guy.

Despite what all those other people say.

The gift that keeps on giving.

(Kelly Hagelauer) is also considering – except this might be excessive – giving him (her husband) “Yes, dear” coupons. During a disagreement, he can hand her one and she must say, “Yes, dear.”

Daniel Rubin discusses the issue, including the team’s position, here.

I still haven’t watched a football game all season, and, when I do, it won’t be the Eagles.

Addendum:

Brendan comments here.

Talk liberally, socialize liberally, think liberally, act liberally.

Tuesday, Triumph Brewing Company, Chestnut between Letitia and 2nd, Philadelphia, Pa., 6 p.

Apparently, his parents are teaching him how to do laundry.

Via ROR.

A Christmas tradition in these parts:

Though in the past he has come in the evening.

And it’s a corker.

Not mine. John Cole’s.

R. I. P. Bettie Page, 1923-2008.

Mithras has an appreciation.

(Warning: If you are so warped as to think there is something inherently smutty about naked women, don’t go there.

If you appreciate beauty, go there without qualm.)

Pay close attention to the part along about the middle about picking and choosing. That’s what tipped me over to the side posting this. Then I had to spend 15 minutes tinkering with the embed code to get it to fit my column:

H/T Alison for the link.

. . . for the Dukies.

Here.

It doesn’t get you much. A few discounts here and there but nothing big.

But you can carry the card with pride.

Kicked to the front page.

Via Phillybits.

Also at

Brendan Calling

Suburban Guerilla

Attytood

And numerous other places which you can see if you follow the link to Phillybits.

One of the topics I do not generally touch is US/Israeli policy. I am not some kind of guru; I’m just a guy who hear himself talk, whether or not anyone else is listening. (That’s one of the wonderful things about this medium–as long as you don’t look at the hitmeter, you can convince yourself someone is out there.)

I have strong opinions in that area but scant knowledge; my academic training and my interest is in US domestic history, in sociology, in learning theory, and in group dynamics, not in foreign policy (though domestic events and foreign policy are often inseparable)–and you know my knowledge must be really scant to keep me from shooting off my mouth.

But someone for whom I have the highest respect recommends this organization. That’s all I need to know to pass it along as worth a look.

John Cole:

Fortunately for everyone involved, Barack Obama is no George Bush.

Acorn.

Nobody can get it wrong all the time. Just most of the time.

Via Eschaton.

Dick Polman has a nice roundup of just deserts.

After running my errands.

Josh Marshall:

Everything I know about Fitzgerald tells me he’s exactly what you want in a US Attorney. The real thing.