I'm going fishing this weekend, leaving now for RI where our boat is docked. I want to go alone this time, to clear my head. A Jimmy Buffet sort of weekend. Talk to myself a little about what I am doing with my life. Maybe out to Block or Cuttyhunk this time. Or maybe Fisher's Island or Gardiner's Island. I can't make up my mind. Not too far, just as long as it's an island with Ospreys and gulls overhead and big fish in the water to (mostly) catch and release. Sun, fog, or rain, I don't care. I just want to get back on (and in) the water again after a week on dry land.
Plus I have a brand new fly rod I want to use: my precious Orvis T3. I plan to feed on bass and/or Bluefish, and steamer clams two or three times a day. I will pick up 6 lbs. of steamers and a bunch of containers of potato salad and cole slaw from the store, plus a thing of butter. And Coors Lite and Doritos. And the box of splendid smokes my Editor sent me (Thanks much, BD. That was a very fine, thoughtful, and timely gift.). If I stop at Block, I may dine one night on the amazing fresh cod beer-battered fish and chips on the dock.
I will leave our devoted readers - those few are not away this weekend or these final weeks of August, with this bit of light summer reading:
From Strobe Talbott? Russia's ominous new doctrine.
The Sahara wasn't a desert. AGW, no doubt.
Why the swimming records are falling. It's technology.
Mohammed might like this: Arabian Butt Enlarging Cream. This should be marketed to buttless WASPS.
American corporate taxes highest in the world. America the Uncompetitive. How did that happen? Those taxes on business profits just screw the middle-class investor like me.
Those Clintons will never go away. Well-bred people know when they aren't wanted. More at Q&O.
NYT reporter - and his or her editor - didn't know the difference between gross and net. Good grief.
More on remembering the bomb, and forgetting why.
Pave the desert to get solar energy? Lots of critters live in the desert. Related: Pelosi changes her mind, again. Women do that.
Europe wins gold medal for defeatism. That's why they are called Euroweenies. I swear that Russia could march into Paris today if they wanted to.
The MSM goes after the #1 non-fiction best-seller.
Oil drops, dollar up. That is good, mostly. Bad for exports. There's no free lunch.
More on the Leftie loonies at the (otherwise) great University of Chicago
Communist Party endorses Obama. Duh.
Bush is the Truman of our times. I think so. Nobody's perfect.
Obama's tax plans are a war on working women. Wait a minute...he wants to lower taxes? Why am I confused?
