Professor Elam

Sunday Feb 21 2010

I had a post on the Austin airplane attack yesterday. Update, Shane Hill, has 20% burns and is now being treated at local Brooke Army Burn Center, let's hope for the best for this unfortunate victim of terrorism. 

Alexander Haig died this weekend. David Halberstam included Haig in his book the Best and the Brightest. Haig managed to rise above gunfire and warfare to become a diplomat and a member of the revolving door fraternity that moves from govt to the private sector and back as easily as you and I change socks. Ironically it is this sort of individual and the perks they enjoy that in part frustrated Stack's attack on the IRS. Goldman is giving bonuses, Stack is being stalked by the IRS, at least in his mind.

 On the Waterfront is on Turner Classic Movies tonite, if you have never seen it, get the popcorn a great study in ethics as timeless today as when it won numerous Academy Awards. 

 Hmm, the Sookie Stackhouse series which has become True Blood has northern Louisiana visitors looking for the local haunts of the series. Sorry, Shreveport has bars but no vampire bars.

Years, okay decades ago, Galveston benefited from a song by Glenn Campbell about the island Lightning strikes twice.