http://www.kpmartin.com I always wanted my name painted on the office door. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:51:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In olden days, a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows, anything goes. Good authors too who once knew better words, Now only use four-letter words writing prose, Anything goes. The world has gone mad today, And good’s bad today, and black’s white today, And day’s night today, When most guys today that women ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/11/18/anything-goes-by-cole-porter/ That's a weird title for a post on my own blog. Well, here's the story: there's another Ken Martin. Actually, there's a bunch of us, but there's one in particular who is the campaign manager for the "Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment". So folks are searching the web for him ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/10/29/ken-martin-recommends-you-do-not-vote-yes-for-the-clean-water-land-and-legacy-amendment/ The van got whacked. The story here. No one's hurt, and it was plainly the uninsured motorist's fault. [gallery] http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/10/20/crunch/ Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/10/16/john-f-kennedy-35th-president-of-the-united-states/ She won! Yay! http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/29/she-won/ ...with a lot of blog updates. Good stuff! He's been scanning pictures and uploading video. He's getting pretty good at this stuff. http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/27/kenny-has-been-busy/ Maybe it's just me with my stochastic interest in history and our country's founding, but I found this article by Steven Hayward (Reagan's biographer) concerning Sarah Palin very interesting. What do we really think about "government of the people, by the people, for the people"? http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/15/government-by-the-people/ Last episode, we left our heroes (my family) slumbering away their mediocre McDonalds in Louisville, KY. The next morning we raided the hotel's free breakfast cereal counter - a legendary delight the kids remembered from last road trip; three kinds of cereal! As much as we want! Back into the van ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/13/so-we-went-on-vacation-part-two/ ...even though today was billed as possibly being the "End of the World". The Large Hadron Collider is intended to collide a bunch of particles at about ~99.99997% of the speed of light, thus reproducing conditions quite close to the moment of the Big Bang. Some folks are concerned that doing ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/10/i-feel-fine/ The last two weeks of August, we had a road trip. Our goal was to make it to South Carolina to visit my dad, and then down to Charleston for a couple of days. Two weeks... ahhhh... enough time to actually relax. I've had all sorts of things I wanted to ... http://www.kpmartin.com/2008/09/08/so-we-went-on-vacation-part-one/