Comments on: Mitt’s mitten.

By: garmoore

garmoore — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:05:55 +0000

Connie: Ionia County (for those of you who don’t know Mich. geography, it’s the county due east of Kent Co., which is due east of Ottawa Co., which is on Lake Michigan) also went for Romney. No accounting for taste, I guess. Of course, this is the part of the state that produced the last two Republican candidates for governor, Dick Postumus and Dick DeVos. Apparently, we have an affinity over here for losers.

By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:24:58 +0000

To clarify my comment above about the Michigan primary: My home county of Ottawa and it’s also Dutchy neighbor Kent County appear to be the only counties in west Michigan that voted for Romney rather than McCain.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:43:06 +0000

Wow, Basset. Thanks for the lead. Great stuff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:37:39 +0000

My Olympus 35mm feels like a buggy whip in my hand now; go, Library of Congress! What a good use of “outsourcing” and distributed user-gen content. And a new way for me not to work . . . for pay, anyhow.

By: basset

basset — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:48:41 +0000

we used to shop at the Jitney Jungle grocery when we lived in Jackson, Mississippi back in the early 80s… dunno if they’re still around.

Total reversal of topic:

this is expletive-deleted brilliant… the Library of Congress just put a whole load of FSA pictures up on Flickr, no copyright, come and get ‘em:

http://www.loc.gov/blog/?cat=27

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:14:24 +0000

No, no, i liked the italics! And you can’t get free-range scallops anywhere around here, but i haven’t shopped in a Piggly-Wiggly this side of Council Bluffs, Ioway.

By: michaelj

michaelj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:19:15 +0000

Oops. Sorry about the italics.

By: michaelj

michaelj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:15:02 +0000

How ‘bout that Michigan 4th Congressional District? This is the guy that replaced the legendary David Stockman, who I think is probably the last honest Republican. Stockman famously told an Atlantic Monthly interviewer: "I mean, Kemp-Roth [Reagan's 1981 tax cut] was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.... It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down.' I don’t know anything about Siljander, other than that he’s a publicly born again Falwell acolyte and once called the Koran ‘the devil’s book‘, but I do know the group he aided and abetted is associated with another Muslim charity for which Richard Perle hosted a benefit a few years ago. Next thing you know, a GOP president will be giving Saudi Arabia smart bombs to trickle down to Wahabist maniacs while simultaneously telling Olmert he feels Israel’s need to blow up Iran. Nah, couldn’t happen. Unrelated: A Piggly-Wiggly (that’s a grocery y’all) flyer in our local paper is advertising Wild Caught Large Sea Scallops. You’ve got to move pretty fast to catch those suckers, I bet. I know I’m too old to be running down those marine mollusks. We do manage to catch oysters every once in a while, but scallops, way too quick. Tim Russert? Separated at birth from Jimmy Johnson. Putting a somewhat human face on 'the other white meat'. Old Major and Napoleon.

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:25:52 +0000

You know, Jeff, the conventions could be very interesting this year. Both conventions could determine the nominations.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:48:32 +0000

Mark my words: Within the next couple of days the local paper will tsk, tsk anyone who hangs said nutz from his/her vehicle, ask about whatever happened to decorum and being Southern and all. On the Very Same Day your children will be able to turn from op-ed to the agate scores to see how the local teams did and be able to read the only ad on the page, a quarter-pager that informs them how to have the (all caps, at least 48 pt type) best sex in their lives.