Author: Rick Klau

Two comments in the past week prove that my readers are far more clever than I: Commenting on Barack’s Letterman appearance, “az” notes that Paul is still the master when it comes to inside jokes on muscial references. In response to my caption contest last week, “OneMan” in one line manages to both indirectly reference…

Wow. Lafayette faces last year’s I-AA champ Delaware this afternoon in the first round of the I-AA playoffs. Very exciting. (TiVo owners: click here to record the broadcast.) It’s Lafayette’s first trip to the playoffs, and they were picked to come in 5th in the league (they won). Bonus: a program on the Lafayette/Lehigh legacy…

Here’s a snippet, but you should read the whole article to get a better sense of her argument: The struggle to be Democratic National Committee chair is round one of the battle for the soul of the party. The obvious choice is Howard Dean, who has the clarity of conviction and the passion that voters…

Lynn Sweet gets the answer that none of the rest of us could (and why should we? We’re just constituents.): “Rep. Judy Biggert did not take a position or speak in the caucus because she is a member of the ethics panel and will have to deal with the pending complaint.” For background, see here…

Taped last night, airs Friday night. I hear Barack did quite well. TiVo owners: click here to schedule it on your TiVo. Interestingly, Barack was on Imus yesterday. And while I’m on the Barack update, So-Called Austin Mayor points out that in a survey of Boston voters, Barack recently came in tied for second in…

OK, been a while since we did one of these. Please take a look at the following picture of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and leave your best caption in the comments: (I just know you can do better than the following “official” caption: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld looks around the room full…

Hey Josh — I called Congresswoman Biggert’s office (202-225-3515), and the person who answered the phone said it was a private vote, and would not reveal how Congresswoman Biggert voted. I’ve asked for a call back, will update if/when I hear anything. In the Illinois delegation, Denny Hastert was in favor of the rule change,…

Had drinks tonight with Richard Irvin, a candidate for mayor of Aurora. Richard’s got quite the resume — soldier in the first Gulf War, former prosecutor, teacher, community leader, husband, father… oh yeah, he’s a Republican too. And African-American. We didn’t talk much on specifics regarding his politics, other than for me to ask how,…

I’m not a Notre Dame alum (Lafayette College is my alma mater), but one of the amazing things about N.D. is that they tend to accept all family members as part of the “family”. My younger brother is a 1996 graduate of N.D., and I am lucky to consider a number of his classmates friends…

Jason points out that we’ve been here before. And no, it’s not pretty. If only those who were so worried about making the other side look bad were just half as concerned about making us look good. (And, for the subtlety-impaired, by us I mean Americans.) sigh