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Taking the day off.

Family matters.

Spent yesterday watching the wonderful electrifying Super Bowl at my brother’s place, where the internet goes to die.

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Family matters.

Home improvements.

No, I didn’t install the steps; I’m flooring the attic now that it’s accessible. If you want the name of a trustworthy, competent, and meticulous “professional handyman” in these parts, I can help you out.

Tony Norman, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, thinks that part of the wingnut cartoon Obama is based on wingnuts’ having no idea what hit them in the last two Presidential elections.

The very unlikelihood of Mr. Obama’s existence atop America’s political world is what fuels the fear and loathing of the right wing. Because they’re already prone to superstition, they see a genie-like figure taunting them from an office he wouldn’t have a legitimate claim to under the old rules.

In response to Barack Obama’s unlikely presidency, many right-wingers have allowed their imaginations to run wild. Instead of appreciating Mr. Obama’s election as an example of the mad genius of the American electorate, many Republicans see sinister conspiracies afoot. They’ve erected a counterfactual fantasy as absurd as the prospect of Mr. Obama’s election once seemed.

Off to drink liberally.

January is a great time for locals in Hampton Roads because it means Restaurant Weeks are coming! This is our chance to check out new restaurants and menus we might not have tried before!

When: Thursday, January 24, 2013

Where:
Freemason Abbey Restaurant & Tavern
209 W. Freemason Street
Norfolk, Va. (map)

The Commander Guy has another post to remind us just what cause was lost.

The Commander Guy celebrates the lost cause by pointing out what cause was lost.

Home improvements.

Off to drink liberally.

Via the Bangor Daily News. Follow the link for a link to a quibble.

Fun and fellowship for liberals. Join us tomorrow and enjoy the afterglow.

When: Thursday, January 10, 6 p.

Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)

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Barbara Hamm Lee interviews several surviving “Tuskegee airmen” about their experiences in the military and in the air. Life under Jim Crow forms an undercurrent to their experiences, though they do not talk about it directly.

Follow the link to listen and learn.

They made history – both in the military and beyond – becoming the first African American pursuit squadron in the United States. They were Army, and based in Tuskegee, Alabama. You’ve heard the stories and probably seen the movie, but on the next Another View we’ll talk with Hampton Roads Tuskegee Airmen from a different perspective. Were the “glory days” really glorious? How did they gather the strength to fight the enemy in the air and then racism at home? Has the US given the Tuskegee Airmen their just due? Join us for this special edition of Another View as we spend time with Sgt. Harry Quinton; Chief Master Sgt. Grant Williams; and Corporal Wilbert Gore, all Tuskegee Airmen of Hampton Roads . . . .

Really, now, why bother?

Brendan’s back.

And now for today’s lesson.