Patrick Ruffini is good people. He did some excellent work at the Philadelphia Convention, and he’s been out in the city, fighting the good fight. Commenting on the Pennsylvania Primary results, he asks an interesting question. Why don’t more of the old “Reagan Democrats” switch parties? As a very young former “Reagan Democrat” who has been a registered Republican for quite some time, I’d like to take a stab at answering.

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Economic talk bores me, like most people. At the same time, who can resist some whacky protest action?

Deroy Murdock’s latest article at National Review Online looks at both. There’s nothing in the world to spice up a stockholders meeting, in my opinion, like your basic environmentalist craziness. Apparently, the next skirmish will be held at the ExxonMobil stockholders meeting in Dallas.
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Last night was fun. At around 10pm West Coast time we had an earthquake. Unlike most of the denizens of California, I’m not going to refer to this earthquake with some quaint down-home euphemism. The people who try to seem folksy about these things out here, who sound as if they are trying to downplay the whole thing, those are the people who actually try to draw the most attention to themselves. Knock it off already. Wil Rogers is high in heaven, and Garrison Keillor is far away in Minnesota.
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