The Sequel
Thanks to woofpup, New Dog has a real name: Sequel. It is melodic, friendly, and has just the right geek overtones. Stately, with a whiff of nerd. "Sequel" will be what she's called around the house. In the show ring, if she decides to conform to the breed standard, she'll be known as Lilliput's Royal Munchkin of Wagsmore. That name reflects her breeders' kennel name, Lilliput, and her father's kennel, Wagsmore. It also honors the common relative she had with Audit, Suntura's Royal Salute. And, finally, the name clues people in that she belongs in the Ozdachs pack. I have [...]
News from the Pack
redozdachs and I were interviewed by a very skeptical 15-week old this afternoon. She's still skeptical. So are Syntax, Vector, and Array. But, she is part of the pack.
Going to the Political Barricades for the Change We Need
I spent much of Friday grinning. My grin started at the gym when I picked up the Wall Street Journal to read on the stair stepper. I had heard Thursday that President Obama had release his budget plan, but details -- even the broad stokes -- hadn't reached my consciousness. But, the WSJ laid it out. The man is proposing to keep his campaign promises.To do what we elected him to do. Or, as the WSJ put it: President Barack Obama signaled a historic shift in the ideological direction of the U.S. economic policy Thursday with a budget that proposed [...]
From FiveThirtyEight.com
"Bobby Jindal caught at least one break this week: Saturday Night Live was in reruns."