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admin Saturday, December 26, 2009 — Yesterday’s post reminded us of a short video we shot a little over a year ago. Here it is: the salt ship Hato (Nassau), leaving Portsmouth Harbor, as seen through the gap between two buildings on Bow Street. Like the movie in the old Everly Brothers song, it doesn’t have much of a plot. We just wanted the historical record to show that you used to be able to see this.
Friday, December 25, 2009 — The gift no one wanted, and which will be taken away all to soon: a view upstream from Bow Street, towards the Mildred Long and the Piscataqua River Bridges, across the space where the Martingale once stood.
Monday evening, December 7, protestors supporting Navy SEALS accused of abusing prisoners gather in front of the North Church in Market Square, Portsmouth. Tuesday, December 22, 2009 — New Hampshire’s First Congressional District has been a travesty of representative government for at least 30 of the last 40 years. We’ll reserve judgment on Norm D’Amours (1975 – 1985) for the moment, but the men who held the seat for the other 30 years, Louis Wyman, Bob Smith, Bill Zeliff, John E. Sununu and Jeb Bradley, did nothing but carry water for the fat cats running this country. As Ron Dellums put it years ago, we …
Monday, December 21, 2009 — This ought to forever resolve the question of whether libertarians understand anything. “We’ll all have more leisure time to spend with our loved ones.” Jesus wept.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 — Any hour now, our Commander in Chief will deliver a stirring call to further sacrifice in Afghanistan. Because victory is just around the corner … or just a little further down the tunnel. Forty some-odd years ago, the editor of This Olde Rag would be called upon from time to time to fill in for the Vietnamese guard of a medical lab in Saigon, who had the habit of disappearing from his post whenever a free-range chicken would wander, clucking, past his little bunker. But surely that’s all irrelevant now.
Friday, November 20, 2009 — This is a lot like firing on a barrel of fish with a machine gun, but it’s publication day, and we haven’t the time right now to do anything substantive. A year ago, Snopes.com let nearly all the air out of the “Pelosi’s self-indulgent use of a huge jet” meme. Perhaps Publius never heard of snopes.com. Or perhaps he’s too busy powdering his wig to check it out. Most likely he just doesn’t give a damn. It’s only reality, after all.