I grew up near Saugatuck, and the few years that Michigan’s drinking age was 18 let me hang out in Saugatuck bars at an early age.

I can also recommend good restaurants in Holland.

And I agree. The dog looks bitchin’.

Harl – completely agree! The Ferraro gambit looks all-too calculated to appeal to rustic types in, say, Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana and North Carolina…..and your point on age is the keystone (so to speak). Older folks VOTE – and youth (traditionally, anyway) get bored and tune out.

This is the real hell of it….November is a long way off, and the Clinton campaign seems to be consuming their seed corn on this. It might work now, and create the crack that kills them in November…..but at least when the crotchety McCain campaign plays some similarly cynical game this summer, muck rakers like Olbermann will have their bonifides in order, when they express their outrage at him.

We occasionally visit a restaurant in Saugatuck that has one installed in the women’s restroom handicapped stall. Its various options include wash rear gentle, wash rear hard, wash front gentle, and blow dry. The water is nicely warmed. They don’t have the various massage settings turned on.

Another hawk picture this week: http://elmores.net/round-here/comments.php?id=1253_0_1_0_C

I can’t believe the first comment I make is for the toilet post.

By the way three of your Google ads were for toilets and the other one was for Lincoln National Insurance.

Great blog…

And Hillary pussy-footed around with this for two weeks….which is highly offensive

Geraldine Ferraro was born in 1973. I expect geezers to reflect the times they grew up in. She doesn’t get it. She’s insulted those scared white men wearing the white sheets and the dirty worn work shoes for years, and anyone that calls her a racist is evil. She’s always been charitable to her inferiors. Barack is doing damned well for a pickaninny, and he ought to be grateful that he’s even being considered for vice-president, even though he’s obviously not qualified, and who are these men in the long white coats, and where are they taking me.

Grandpa said something about those damn niggers in the the 1960s, and I said to him, when you were in a threshing ring, one of the families was black, and what’s more, your best friend is black. “He’s not a blackie,” grandpa spat. “That’s Leo. I’m talking about the city niggers.”

And – relatively speaking – he wasn’t a racist when it came to black folk. He didn’t have any problem having black friends eat at his table, he enjoyed it, and he didn’t quail at eating at his black friends’ tables. You couldn’t say that about the beet hunkies or dirty greasers. He hated all of them, and the ones he knew best, he hated most. But he was prejudiced against blacks he didn’t know.

Things change with time.

In the 1950s, “good” white folk were in favor of integration, except when it comes to marriage, because it would be a rough lift for a mulatto kid, who doesn’t fit in either society, except that when they integrated the schools, they found that familiarity breeds and these days, there are a lot of mixed race kids out there, and nobody thinks much about it, including the Archie Bunkers who find they have mixed-race grandkids. I don’t think it’s any wonder that support for Barack is much higher among kids than among older people.

And Hillary pussy-footed around with this for two weeks….which is highly offensive

Yes, it is. She is a monster, in many ways. She doesn’t have any idea exactly how offensive Bill’s and Geraldine’s comments have been. A lot of the pundits are talking about this election taking on racial overtones, but it’s really a proxy for age. This election is young versus old. It really would make a lot of sense for McCain to invite Hillary to be his running mate, and it would make a lot of sense for her to accept.

Unless, of course, you’re Ann Coulter. But she’s irrelevant, these days.