Archive - December, 2009

Good-bye Dean C. Jones

31 December 2009 by , 8 Comments
Good-bye Dean C. Jones

So I got the dreaded phone call this morning; my first cousin-once-removed, Dean C. Jones, passed away overnight. Dean Cicero Jones, Jr. (thus the “Dean C”) was a surgeon in Ashe County, North Carolina for his entire adult life. He was the son of a surgeon, the grandson of a surgeon, and the father of [...]

The kid in the driveway

6 December 2009 by , No Comments

Watching out my bedroom office window yesterday… The neighborhood kids often cut across the yard above us and then our front driveway area on their way home from school. It shortens the trip by a few crucial meters. Yesterday, a boy of 12-13 stopped in the driveway and bent over. I was on the phone [...]

Random thoughts about the White House gate-crashers

6 December 2009 by , No Comments

You can’t tell me that what they did wasn’t illegal. Probably both on “state” and federal levels. A crackerjack lawyer in the D.C. DA’s office and an equivalently hot talent at the DoJ should be assigned to find a long list of charges to throw at them. Any plea negotiations should include no publicity whatsoever [...]