I’m traveling to Michigan tomorrow for a family visit. Nothing until tomorrow night, likely, if then.
[Wednesday morning update]
Arrived last night, perhaps more anon.
Phyllis Diller
Will hopefully be cracking up the angels now, if such exist. Younger people probably don’t know of her, but she was very funny in her heyday. She was one of the original queens of the one liners. Here’s a sampling.
She was also a great example of recreating yourself at mid life. She started out as a budding starlet, then became a housewife, and then a very successful comedienne (and a talented pianist).
Now let’s see, first Tony Scott, then her. Following the rule of three, who’s next?
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s her first television appearance, with Groucho, before she honed her act.
[Update a while later]
And her final performance, not that long ago, at age 94.
The delivery is, unsurprisingly given her age, a little subdued, but she seemed sharp to the end. She was at her peak in the sixties and seventies, along with Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Don Rickles, etc.
The Obama Campaign “Doesn’t Go Out Of Bounds”
Just ask Barack.
These people are shameless.
[Update a few minutes later]
Technically, of course, he’s correct. You don’t have to “go out of bounds” when you’re never in bounds.
What Happened In Egypt
And now the crucifixions have begun. Because the Quran, you know, the the book of the Religion of Peace™? requires it.
Apocalypse Not
Why you shouldn’t worry about the end times.
What Produces More CO2 Than Gas?
Wind.
Paul Ryan
Methanol
Bob Zubrin says it’s time to legalize it.
Given the EPA’s track record, I’m not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The “New Normal”
Jimmie Pethokoukis isn’t buying it:
…the president’s a recent convert to this religion of low expectations. He certainly didn’t buy it when he took office. Back then, he predicted a quick and powerful economic rebound — if only lawmakers implemented his policies, such as the $800 billion stimulus. Which Congress, then with strong Democratic majorities, quickly did.
In 2009, for instance, the White House said the economy would be growing at a brisk 4.3 percent annual clip this year, with unemployment down to 5.6 percent. Indeed, Obama’s top economists predicted we’d be smack in the middle of a fat streak of high-growth years: 4.3 percent in 2011, followed by 4.3 percent growth in 2012 and 2013, too. And 2014? 4 percent growth.
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton would have nothing on Obama, these predictions suggested. Back then, Team Obama scoffed at the dismal New Normal faith.
Yet we’re still waiting on the boom that they promised. Now they’re evangelizing for “the New Normal” — and hoping enough voters buy the excuse.
It’s almost as though they don’t know WTF they’re doing.
The Man With No Plan
Mark Steyn (brilliantly, as usual) contrasts Barack Obama and Paul Ryan.