Sitting up at 1 thirty in the morning after I took a long Friday night nap. I have not done a Friday night party after w0rk for a long time, after my party gang broke up and we all went our own ways, and with gas still high I am hogging my money these days. Des Moines got rid of many of its strip joints years ago and the drunk driver laws started to get enforced. And a lot of Baptists moved into the strip club area north of town and forced out most of the clubs, to have a clean climate for their kids. All that was probably needed, but it made the town a somewhat prissy place. About 30 years ago Des Moines was an uninhibited place, with massage parlors and grown-up bookstores and headshops all over the place. But the hippies got older and became yuppies, and we have a deluge of condos and coffee shops and boutiques, and wine and cheese emporiums. and someone is always trying to regulate something--for the safety of Our Children. The free spirits became regulators.
The CIA chief resigned today, supposedly because he could not get the outfit under control, and functioning effectively. We will probably find out what W and Goss said to one another in the Oval eventually.
Interesting column today in our local paper, copied from the Wash Post, by very liberal Richard Cohen, in which he takes the ax to the comics at the Press Club dinner who were up trashing W while W was sitting there taking it. Cohen actually said some nice things about W, and the Des Moines Register, which has gone way off the left edge, printed the column.
This will be all for right now. Not much of a blogging, because I am somewhat grouchy at this time. Will be happier sooner or later. Di di mau!
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