Miscellany

Here's a quick update. The Obama beer summit was so cheesy Karl Rove should have thought it up. It added or subtracted little to the substance of the debate regarding the whole H.L. Gates Cambridge, Mass. arrest mess. 'Twas nothing but a cute patch on a bleeding wound.

The real reason Sen. Jeff Sessions may have been so hot to go after Judge Sonia Sotomayor as not fit to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court is that in the mid-1980s his nomination as a federal appeals court judge was blocked by the Judiciary Committee on a 10-8 vote due to his visible taint as a racist and bigot. At that time he was the first rejected nominee in almost 50 years. Bet that one hurt, huh Jeff?

Last Wednesday had a great dinner at the Uno Chicago Grill in South Jersey near the State Hwy 70 and I-295 intersection. Hadn't been to one in many years and was pleasantly impressed by the repositioning of the chain, the revamping of the decor, and the expansion of the menu. Not so impressed with a $20 charge for a lobster roll.