I agree with Mr. Tennis. LW has no obligation...disownment is a form of infanticide. LW is an obviously caring and self-reflexive enough person to forgive the past. But come on…if a partner cheats on you and then dumps you, forgiveness is good and part of the healing process, but you don’t have to be friends with that person.

Forgive your parents…but you have no obligation to reconnect with them. They betrayed you, not the other way around.

I just wanted to post a congrats. Being a frequent flier and son of an Pilot, i love rating airports. US good ones: Little rock and Reno for convenience and cleanliness and the old Las Vagas airport for the gleaming architecture ( the new Vagas airport is awful). Burbank is/or was great since you could disembark the plane on the Tarmac.

The Bad: Denver, what a stupid place to put an airport-snow, wind summer thunderstorms everyday, ugh. Dumb design for limitless space to build. Living on the West Coast, I refuse to fly United because of Denver's airport-delays cancellations etc.

Good: Puerta Vallarta has great new airport.

Hawaii Airports are great-outside is wonderful.

Panama, Good clean safe.

The article is really not that interesting, like a previous writers noted. Please for a moment consider this potential if Hilary gets elected:

28 years of Bush-Clintons in office! 28 years! That's an entire generation long family feud that needs to go way.

I am sick of Brand Clinton and and Brand Bush.

Can't we just move on...to someone new?

Bush #1: 4 years

Clinton: 8 Years

Bush: 8 years

Hilary: 4-8 years

24 to 28 years of these folks.

And I don't trust her...is really what is comes down to.

Hilary would have lost.

Everyone remember Hilary was the heir to be...and now she cannot even win a majority in her own party. Please answer me this, is she so electable now in the general election?

Much Cheaper than PH Infrastructure and continues to create energy at night. Please look into it! it's great.

Jeremy

As a life long dedicated devote of the great and wonderful thing we call beer (so much so that to some my devotion could be considered a problem) I say good riddance to A-b.

However, I find Sierra to be an excellent if not the best fall back beer when faced with limited choices. Always good and drinkable.

Cheers!

Obviously, Gingrich has his fear-mongering reasons for his authoritarian statements, but I want to give a slightly different take just for the heck of it.

My wife and I have a number of older friends with a lot of time to think (retired or underemployed), and I found quite a few of them have become obsessed with doomsday scenarios such as climate change, wars, etc as they grow older. They are convinced that we are all screwed.

I believe this is partially due to their own mortality and a need to stay relevant or in other words, if I am going to die - we all should go collectively. It's almost a form of jealousy or misery loves company...I can't fully describe it because I just realized the common tread.

Perhaps Gingrich really wants this to happen to stay relevant or his fear and loathing needs company - like all of us.

You know you are getting older when you start saying goodbye more often to friends, family, and even comics. Still makes ya sad...makes you want to sit all day in a field watching the clouds go by.

Farewell Opus, say hi to Bill for me.

And thanks BB, I've been reading you since I was a kid. You've made me laugh so many times.

Thanks BB, and final a goodbye to you Opus, sleep well.

That made me tear up. Dang, I'm sad.

I've thoroughly enjoyed your blog for the last two years. I read it every day and its cool to consider that I probably live down the street from you.

Cheers to your great blog and congratulations.

Blah, blah, blah, Obama. Is anyone really surprised? His caving on FISA was the canary in the coalmine. Once again he's picking a clintonesque position, as with most of his cabinet. Pick the idiots who caused all this mess, Summers, Clinton. Now a big Prop 8 supporter. Ugh.

Better than Bush and McCain, but that is not saying much.

OBAMA: Shut up you non-establishment types. I need to feel loved by the insiders, sound familiar? Here's a job in my cabinet for you. But trust me folks, I believe in change, remember? Your change that is. Blah, blah, blah, Obama.

I wonder if these "pundits" such as David I. and Thom Friedman, really look at what they say in a historical context. In 20-30 years from now, do they think that people will really look back and say jeez your opinions on military force to kill civilians in order to scare them is OK, and raising issues about Torture and lawlessness by government officials. What will these folks think when a journalism grad student writes her dissertation on the prevailing opinion on torture and criminality in the 2000's?

Most likely these pundits will get a feeling of what Henry Kissinger must currently feel like when he goes abroad.

Didn't Obama take an oath to uphold the constitution? not the institution of the presidency? I don't know, maybe I'm stupid. But this seems pretty simple as a job requirement, a 30+ word oath? Uphold laws not man? Simple stupid.

I see the only solution is a stronger congress, both Rep and Dem working together to strength their branch against the executive. That doesn't mean bipartisanship, but constitutional balance.

As a son of 40 year pilot (both military and corporate), I really appreciate your thorough explanations. It's like talking to my father. Well done.