My Vote For Barack Obama

Posted on April 18, 2012 by ceadtinneh

With Rick Santorum now out of the race, the nomination, presumably, goes to Mitt Romney. Already general election hijinks are in high gear. We have Barack Obama barnstorming the country, touting the “Buffett Rule”, which would have millionaires paying a minimum 30% tax rate. Obama says this will help “stabilize our debts and deficits”, conveniently ignoring the fact that it’ll raise about 4 billion dollars a year. We borrow about four billion dollars a day to finance our current deficit. We have the Democratic Party bemoaning the Republican “War on Women”, while a high level Democratic advisor goes on TV and claims that, because Ann Romney didn’t choose the path that liberal feminists thought she ought to choose and chose the positively medieval existence of a stay-at-home parent, her opinions about the economy don’t really mean much.
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Heavy is the Head…

Posted on March 8, 2012 by ceadtinneh

On Tuesday, I received my Game of Thrones Bluray box set in the mail. I had gotten the set as a gift from Leslie, who forked over some extra cashish to Amazon to ensure I’d have the set the day it came out. Ten hours over two late nights and bleary-eyed mornings later, we’re finished watching it. I’m now simultaneously telling Leslie that I’ll wait a year for the second season to come out on Bluray while hoping she blows me off and orders HBO for the three months when Game of Thrones starts again in April.
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Change Is In The Air…and It Ain’t Smellin’ Too Good

Posted on October 13, 2011 by ceadtinneh

Why won't anybody hire me?


Thank you, Occupiers. Thank you oh so very much those participating in the Occupy Wall Street/Atlanta/Mordor/My Ass protests. You have provided levity and wonder after weekend of horrid sports news coming out of Philadelphia. Browsing the web for news of the protests (on sites, would you believe, other than FoxNews or Drudge Report), there are things I’ve seen that have made me smile and there are things I wish I could unsee.
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American Dreamer

Posted on October 6, 2011 by ceadtinneh

Out on the internet there’s a photo taken in the 1950’s purportedly showing someone’s idea of what the home computer of the future would look like. The photo showed a huge, gray metal monstrosity, covering an entire wall, with dozens of buttons, dials and levers. Pictured also in the photo is the bespectacled egghead you’d presumably have to rent to run the thing.
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Death of an American

Posted on October 4, 2011 by ceadtinneh

Anwar al-Awlaki enjoying a smoke after breakfast

First, let me just say that I have absolutely, positively no problem with the way Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Kahn died last week. One minute they’re eating breakfast by the side of the road, the next they are countless crispy pieces littering the bleak Yemeni desert landscape. One hopes that as al-Awlaki was cramming the last date he would ever taste into his mouth, he heard the whine of the falling Hellfire missile and was able to put two and two together.
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Eagles Diary – 9/14/2011

Posted on September 14, 2011 by ceadtinneh

Eagles 31 Rams 13

In an earlier blog, I made the observation that the season would live and die on the offensive line and the young linebacker corps. So when the Rams defense bum rushed the Eagles on their first offensive series and Steven Jackson blew through the Eagles defense for a 47 yard TD on the Ram’s first offensive series, I was, to say the least worried.
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Ten Years Gone

Posted on September 11, 2011 by ceadtinneh

My 9/11 remembrance actually begins on September 9th, 2001. Leslie and I were scheduled to take a long anticipated trip to Alaska. It had been a dream of hers and ever since I’d spent a day in Anchorage in the middle of winter on a layover back to Japan, I’d always wanted to go back there and explore further.
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Eagles Diary – 9/9/2011

Posted on September 9, 2011 by ceadtinneh


I must admit…I thought last night would never arrive. I say that in the literal, not the figurative sense. Once the lockout began in early March, I swung between anger and despondence. On one hand we had guys making millions of dollars a year playing a game complaining that they were victims of modern-day slavery. On the other, owners who commute to and from practice fields in private helicopters crying “poor”. I prepared myself for the possibility of no football this fall by simply ignoring all NFL related news for most of the summer. In the event that the two sides in the dispute couldn’t figure out how to divide a 9 billion dollar pie and keep the NFL juggernaut rolling, I’d simply stop caring.
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Death of a Book Salesman

Posted on August 5, 2011 by ceadtinneh

My love of books borders on fetish. I love holding them, reading them, possessing them, just looking at them sitting on shelves. When a friend offers to lend me a book I politely refuse because I know I don’t have it in me to return it. One of the world’s most pleasurable smells is that of stack after stack of old, hardbound books in a large library. There are few things that give me more pleasure than reading a book.
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Going Medieval

Posted on July 1, 2011 by ceadtinneh


The businessman as master of the universe is a relatively new phenomenon. From Roman times, when senators were restricted from commerce (but still made a lot of money through complicated, secret arrangements with those unfettered from such restrictions) through the middle ages, when trade and banking were sometimes considered an affront to God, those whose business is business were at best looked down upon and at worst demonized. It was only after governments (of all sorts) learned that killing the geese that lay the golden eggs was counterproductive, that economic opportunity and prosperity spread.

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