Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) Minneapolis Airport Bathroom Arrest

I think I took a dump in that john last May. My feet didn't bump anything and there is NO WAY I would be picking up a piece of toilet paper from the floor!

Greetings From the YO

Once upon a time never comes again.

Help Me Out on This...

I think a good argument could be made that the Democratic party is in principle the more supportive party towards gays and gay rights. Conversely, Republican legislators most consistently vote against gay marriage and other gay rights.

So why is it all the closeted gays turn out to be Republicans? Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) being the latest.

Don't play Barney Frank. He never hid his orientation.

It Turns Out Our Group Wasn't the Most Watched Bunch at the El San Juan

On Thursday night Eddie, I and a couple others headed to "The Palm" steak house for a few hundred dollars worth of dead cow. There was this over the top, hot blonde in line behind us. You just couldn't help noticing. In fact I noticed so much it never occurred to me to look at her partner. Finally, after we were seated, someone said, "Hey, that's (rapper cum actor) Ice-T with the blonde."

What show was he on?

Where Do You Fit In?

Check this out.

What did I have? Fifty-six last year?

I'm sitting on number 82 right now for '07. The more I read the more there is. Of course, being retired and spending lots of time in airports, I HAVE the time to read.

This Kind of Thing Happens to Me ALL the Time!

Sometimes I'm jealous of myself. These are a couple of my friends from recruiting in Puerto Rico. My pal, Eddie LaVigne, marked 25 years of recruiting in Puerto Rico last weekend. Several former recruiters flew in to celebrate with him. And it was a pretty, pretty, pretty good time.

More pictures to come as they send them to me.

Such good friends...

More Thoughts on Television Ads

So have you seen these Binder and Binder Law Firm ads? What is the deal with the stupid hat? What is the image they are trying to project? A geek lawyer in a suit wearing some kind of pseudo-cowboy hat. Doesn't make sense.

I don't even think he is a real cowboy.

My Weekend With George

I got a call last week from my friend George's daughter Janet. He and I were great diving buddies back in my salad days of the 70's when I was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was his 70th birthday and she wanted to know if I could come down to Fayetteville, NC to help celebrate. We had kind of lost track of each other for about 25 years, only reconnecting a couple years ago. So naturally I went.

Janet cooked up a BS story to get him to the airport and we completely surprised him. It was one of those airport scenes I see all the time and never get to participate in.

So George was once a Marine and like ex-Marines everywhere he never completely let it go. (Not like any paratroopers I could mention.) Thus the decoration on his cake.

While we were there George took me down to the infamous Hay Street. Back in my day the 500 block of Hay Street was a rough neighborhood. One bar, The Town Pump, had stood there since World war II. It was immortalized in the book "The Devils With Baggy Pants" about the famous 504th Airborne Infantry battalion of the 82d Airborne Division.

Now everything is gone. Urban renewal. In the place of the Town Pump stand a medical center.

BUT, across the street stand the new Airborne and Special Operations museum to which we paid a visit.


It was very cool with displays of the history of the paratroop operations.

On the walkway leading to the entrance were these blocks commemorating various folks who had served in the airborne.

Of all the blocks there was actually one of a man I once knew. General Lewis was my Division Artillery commander when I was in the 82d. It was a surprise to know he had passed away. I guess I always see the guys from back then as forever young.

Up in the rafters was an old WW II era C-47 troop transport aircraft.

This guy was "standing in the door!" A position I took 47 times in my career.

Of all the displays, from before WWII, up through Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan and Iraq, the display covering my service in the 82d Airborne was the shortest. It basically covered Soviets, but we never did. Does anyone even remember the Soviets?

So anyway, here is George's sweetheart of a daughter Janet:


All in all, it was a wonderful time. Those guys treat me like family.