Kelly found this blurb about the fearless leader of The Other McCain in an article in Yahoo’s The Ticket, that bastion of fair minded reporting:
As it turned out, I wasn’t the lowest on the pecking order. Members of the Press Club staff were strictly checking for official media badges, and when they found Robert Stacy McCain, a non-credentialed gonzo type who writes for the American Spectator and has probably covered Cain longer than anyone else in the room, they swiftly escorted him out.
McCain is probably the funnest and funniest guy to read on the internet although we DO have our complaints about his style. He is arguably better informed and provides more cogent analysis than George Will, those establishment RINOS at The Corner (excluding Kathryn Jean Lopez and a few others), Hugh Hewitt, Peggy Noonan, Jennifer Rubin, and their ilk. We are on your side Stacy, even though you continue to feature Rule 5 posts. We LOVE our fellow Oregonian, Smitty, too.
Lorena did all the party favors, decorations, and cake for a baby shower for Monica, a friend of ours from Guanajuato. Kelly planned and ran all the games. Our friend Sharon made lunch and hosted the shower at her house. It was a big hit. One of the cool things about the way they do baby showers in Lorena’s home town, Monterrey, is that a small gift is given to all the people that attend. Lorena work really hard, but had a great time making the gifts. She made the jar full of cookie mix and recipe instructions shown to the right. Kelly had a great time running the games and helping out handing out the gifts.
There is something really good you can say about Muammar Gaddafi without getting into any of the recent ugliness over in Libya. Kelly tells me that he is one of the funnest and easiest guys in the world to draw. She did this drawing for me very rapidly. The other really good thing about him is that you can spell his name just about any way you want and no one gets mad or corrects you because no one else knows how to spell it either. Really, I wrote this post because I wanted an excuse to put up this really cool caricature that Kelly drew.
The kids are completely swamped with homework. I am completely swamped with the need to learn more about SQL and data mining. We are broke (and still a little big 
The wildest ride Lorena ever let the kids take at the Linn County Fair in Albany, Oregon was the Ferris Wheel and that required a lot of whining and complaining. So when we walked by the Fireball at the North Carolina State Fair, Lorena was aghast when I told Christian we ought to take that one. Back from my carnival riding days, I remembered that I could handle the rides that made me go end over end much better than I could handle the spinning rides. Every spinning ride always made me sick. I remember getting sick on the Teacup ride at Disneyland back in about 1973 with my cousins Ann and Neil. It almost wrecked the day.
