As the dedicated journalist that I am, equipped with the finest research tools and unnamed sources around, sometimes I get all of my information from the CNN news crawl – those tantalizing morsels that creep across the screen allowing us to turn the sound off.

Here’s one that caught my attention yesterday:
“Senate is [...]

I didn’t know the fine folks at Gallup had been measuring our happiness. But they say we’re getting happier — or at least not as unhappy as we once were. Score yourself with chart below.

Americans score better on all 10 of the Emotional Health Index measures in April than they did at [...]

As a gay man who has lived with my soul mate for 25 years I am stunned to hear our President endorse same-sex marriage. I am ready to ask David Blank to marry me. I hope he will accept. If not, we share a jumbo mortgage, and that’s a legal bond way beyond a marriage [...]

Barack Obama, the big-spending socialist? Hardly. As this chart shows, goverment grows more under Republicans.

source: New York Times

Craig on “Imus in the Morning“
Tuesday (5/8) 6:35 AM ET
Listen Live: WABC-AM (NYC)
TV Simulcast on Fox Business News

Ya gotta love YouTube for finding hidden talent. Here are a couple of kids doing a fine rendition of a favorite tune (file this under encouraging enthusiasm, the world might just have a chance with bright souls like these two around).

More at adityaaziz’s channel

And the Streisand/Garland version
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In keeping with Trail Mix tradition we “run for the roses” (and grab our mint juleps) to celebrate the Kentucky Derby (post time Saturday 6:24 PM ET on NBC).

Yes, I picked “Optimizer” at 50-1 odds, I’m a risk taker (plus it’s my favorite feature on my Norton anti-virus software).

Thanks [...]

Trailmixers gathered last Sunday at Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, to remember and celebrate a fine journalist and true friend, Sean Holton.

Images by daleblank.com
Bagpiper: Dick Chane, Gloucester MA
Edited by Craig Crawford
Painting by Fitz Henry Lane (“Gloucester Harbor, Stage Fort Beach“)
Thanks [...]