Had sdomething happen on yesterday's mostly mediocre run that hasn't in 10-12 years.  I took a spill.  Mind was wandering (why didn't Obama use the Pointer Sisters' 1973 funk hit "Yes We Can Can" more on the campaign trail?) and i hit a rock that sent me elbows over applecart.  Left hand caught the brunt of it, jambed my pinkie, skinned my wrist, knee, elbow and ribcage.  Right side was unscathed - gotte protect the ipod.  Not a huge setback, but in a way it was a GOOD thing.

1.  I was moving fast enough that I couldn't catch myself

2.  I was comfortable enough to let my mind wander.

3.  I was able to get up and continue, even though it did hit me a little harder than it would've a decade ago.  A little ibuprohin and I'm good to go this morning.

Quick short prequal.  My very first workout with the HS track team - 1973.  A road run of three miles in mid-late February.  I tripped.  Open road.  And tore the knees out of my knew school issues sweats.  And tore the hell out of the heels of both hands.  And the coach just shook his head.  Needless to say that story got told alot as I started to be kinda successful.  And it STILL gets told around our family dinner table WAY too often.

cobbled together with info from a few different sources.

Here's a story for a Washington culture that fears failure too much. In today's Washington, large banks aren't permitted to fail; nor are large auto firms. Next up will be too-big-to-fail hospital systems. This is a reminder that failure is a good and necessary thing. And that sometimes the greatest glories are born of catastrophe.

His first two inventions (let's call them I and II.)  He only sold a few hundred units.

His next project cost tens of millions to develop but was an epic fail that cost him his job.

Next he founded a big nothing-burger company whose biggest success was that it was bought out by Apple.

Failure after failure after failure.

Then he brought us the ipod, itunes, iphone, imac and more.  Lots of ninnies can give customers products they want. Jobs gave people products they didn't know they wanted, and then made those products indispensable to their lives. 

Steve Jobs is a reminder that failure is a good and necessary thing. And that sometimes the greatest glories are born of catastrophe.

mostly stolen from here.

Andrew Klavan - his latest.

in these here parts Andrew Klavan this here is the best article ever written about anything by anyone.

Good lines?

"These days, of course, I would support Charlie Sheen over Obama. Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay."

" ... Texas is kicking major ass in terms of jobs and the economy, and Rick should get credit for that, just as Obama should get credit for saying “No comment” to the young people of the Iranian revolution."

"The last time I checked, Texas is kicking in a hell of a lot of the U.S. GDP. Unemployment is lower than the vast majority of the other states. Hell, we could probably even find a job for Paul Begala."

OK .... here's the syllogism from the Left in "defense"

1. An unpatriotic act is one that unjustifiably harms this country.

2. Obama has declared that adding $4 Trillion to the debt was an unpatriotic act.

3. As President, Obama has added $4 Trillion to the debt.

4. Therefore Obama is knowingly, intentionally, and unjustifiably engaging in conduct that harms this country.

Now, tell the truth liberals, is there anything at all unreasonable about that syllogism? No.

But there is a reason why that syllogism fails, because there is a hidden premise in it. Let’s call it step 2.5 and insert it back into my syllogism:

1. An unpatriotic act is one that unjustifiably harms this country.

2. Obama has declared that adding $4 Trillion to the debt was an unpatriotic act.

2.5 Obama actually means what he said.

3. As President, Obama has added $4 Trillion to the debt.

4. Therefore Obama is knowingly, intentionally, and unjustifiably engaging in conduct that harms this country.

And as far as I can see, that is the only logical defense to the charge that the President is knowingly and willfully harming this country: that he is a cheeseball politician willing to say one thing to be elected and to do another once he actually has power.

I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like his welfare-warfare scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like these dirty bombs, or how they kill with no qualms.
I do not like their fiat money, it is worthless paper and oh so funny.
I do not like taxation as theft, I will be happy when none are left.
I do not like this kind of hope. I do not like it. nope, nope, nope!

by  Justin Ptak

There.  I've said it.  Heap your scorn upon me.

How do I KNOW the POTUS is I and U?

He said so.

CNSNews points out that during a campaign speech on July 3, 2008, then-candidate Obama said:

The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up the national debt from 5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — number 43 added 4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have 9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.

President Obama has added another $4 trillion all by his lonesome. In just two and a half years, no less. That’s $ 46,930 for every man, woman, and child.

Is that irresponsible? Is it unpatriotic? Or do the new rules regarding civility in public discourse render such questions (especially when uttered by Tea Partiers/terrorists) irresponsible and unpatriotic?

Thankfully, the Inter-tubes never forget.

from Peter Kirsanow over at the NRO Corner.

takeaway graphs:

Is it merely irresponsible to say American troops are just “air-raiding villages and killing civilians,” or is it unpatriotic?

Is it unpatriotic to compare U.S. troops in Guantanamo with Nazis and Pol Pot, or is it irresponsible?

Is it irresponsible to call Tea Party members terrorists, or is it unpatriotic?

Is it unpatriotic to spend $814 billion on non-existent “shovel-ready” jobs, or is it irresponsible?

Is it irresponsible to smuggle thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels, or is it simply galactically stupid?

We, the great unwashed, anxiously await guidance.

and the MSM wonders why they're no longer taken seriously

Seriously? MSNBC Brings On Ray Nagin to Discuss Hurricane Preparedness