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Nasty, Bad, Naughty Boy

Leno aired this clip last night and it got the requisite chuckles without even the need for a punchline. Senator Craig is certainly looking like a nasty, bad, naughty boy right now, and serves him right for sitting in judgment over another who may be nasty, bad, and naughty, but was at least doing it in the relative privacy of his office. But the irony that struck me about the clip was not that a man suspected of indecency was condemning it in another. The main irony that struck me was that in 1999 they were talking about censuring and impeaching a sitting president simply for being a nasty, bad, naughty boy. Oh, for those simpler days when the worst thing a president did was get a quickie from an intern in a windowless corridor! How can we now stand by when our current nasty, bad, naughty boy has sent thousands of Americans to their deaths in a war with no apparent purpose other than to further destabilize an already unstable part of the world? Where's Bush's slap on the w...

I Am An Idiot

We’re on our annual summer vacation and I’ve been looking forward to some long rides over some real hills in New York and New Hampshire. Usually we try to do a little something extra between visiting my parents in New Hampshire and Jessica’s in Pennsylvania. This year we started our vacation at a family reunion in Michigan, then made our way through Ontario to the Adirondacks. Absolutely lovely trip. We camped one night at Presqu’Ile Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and the morning before we left I did two quick laps around the peninsula to the tune of about 12 miles. I was feeling pretty good about longer rides in the Adirondacks, and I had planned a doozy of a 35 miler for the next morning. Fish Creek Pond - Saranac Lake Find more Bike Rides in Saranac Lake, New York We camped two nights at Fish Creek Pond campground , which was a fabulous spot between Tupper Lake and Saranac. Every campsite is on the water, and the whole site is in the middle of a stand of...