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The Dallas Cowboys plunge to ignominious defeat 31-14 at the hands of the New York Giants and are eliminated from playoff competition.  Folks, it doesn’t get any better than this.

A Grand, Grand Overture for orchestra, organ, three vacuum cleaners, electric floor polisher and four rifles by Malcolm Arnold, as performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson.

Merry Christmas from me, Madame and all the Hounds of Soyara: Diva (BISS Ch. Soyara’s Beautiful Dreamer) Alan (Ch. Soyara’s Singer of Songs) Belle (Ch. Soyara’s Southern Belle) Sarge (Ch. Soyara’s Ace of Spades) Stanley (Soyara’s Gandalf of Dana Dan) … Continue reading →

A picture of 1) me, 2) winning at a dog show.  Little Aida goes Winners Bitch at the Cen-Tex KC show in Alvarado, TX.  The judge is Tim Robbins.

When showing dogs, please remember to dress appropriately.

In the later novels of his “Advise and Consent” series, Allen Drury introduced the character Edward M. “Ted” Jason, an ambitious but shallow Governor of California, lauded to the skies by a fawning and uncritical news media, who is elected … Continue reading →

So, Christopher Hitchens is dead at 62.  Much blubbering from the sinistrosphere about this stout ally of the United States against Islamofascist terror. Well, as Sam Goldwyn said, include me out from all these breathless encomia.  I had no use whatever … Continue reading →

Well, now that I’ve woken up let me regale you with a few items from the show scene. Little Aida finished her championship by going Winners Bitch at the Trinity Valley KC show in Dallas under Rita Bell.  She now … Continue reading →

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country, should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. No refuge could … Continue reading →

If, in the future, any of you complain about my voice being too loud when I’m stewarding and it upsets your poor little Snookums, my response will be, “I’m sorry your dog has such a bad temperament.  Maybe you shouldn’t … Continue reading →

Philadelphia, 5 – Buffalo, 2 Vancouver, 2 – Chicago, 1 Montreal, 2 – Boston, 1

It was time last week to upgrade or cellphones.  My lovely bride was sick and tired of her old phone losing its battery power within a day or when she tried doing anything with it, coupled with Verizon’s unwillingness to … Continue reading →

To Austin this weekend for the Austin KC shows, held at the Travis County Exposition Center.  This features a large covered arena where all the rings, vendors and grooming was held.  We walked through a door and were amazed to … Continue reading →

The 2011 Borzoi Club of America National Specialty was held last week in Lawrence, Kansas.  To spare as much of my lovely bride’s vacation time as possible, on Tuesday I drove Dutch and Ilya up there, a 13 hour drive … Continue reading →

Ilkka writes: The case of the Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones nicely, uh, illuminates the principle first pointed out by Jussi Halla-aho, that the relationship between Western progressives and Muslims is disturbingly similar to that of a dysfunctional family with the … Continue reading →