Soft Soap 
In a Dallas Morning News Op/Ed, Joe Lieberman boldly plasters the future Bush Library hometown with stern calls for full disclosure of Presidential Library donors, and disclosure of the Library’s’ contents. But in classic Lieberman style he doesn’t call out the mysterious forces who might frustrate these goals.
Whoever might oppose sunlight’s legendary sanitary powers?
On cash it’s legendary money shuttler Ted Stevens of Alaska, who has blocked the bill in the Senate.
The murky enemies of the public access to Presidential documents are even more obscure in Lieberman’s telling. He blames “a 2001 executive order” [author unnamed] under which “the documents housed in these libraries can be kept secret in perpetuity.”
It is of course George Bush’s order, and blocking the Senate from voting on overturning it is Alabama’s Jeff Session, acting at the request of the White House.
With such toothless advocates the war is lost before it’s begun.
When Golf Was King 
Golf Digest takes a loving look back at Eisenhower era on the links. Even they are astonished at Ike’s days wandering the fields, and a handy chart allows you to track his obsessive play day by day. 
All part of a package of nostalgia and list making, the highlight of which is their lament for the death of Washington golf.
Thanks Guys! 
Fixer to the stars Jack Abramoff’s Scottish trip ruined it for everybody apparently. No one admits to playing anymore, and…
“As a result of a ban imposed on gifts and services, lobbyists have to pay thousands of dollars to play in elected officials’ fund-raisers to spend time with them on the golf course — hardly a bonding opportunity.”
But Cavalier of Change
Barack Obama golfs, so hope springs eternal. 
Churchillian? 
John McCain has launched a two minute mash note to Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, and himself.
With the subtlety for which the man from Arizona is known, it’s entitled “Man in the Arena,” a straight lift from Roosevelt’s salute to rule-over-the-lesser-races-and-no-fussy-backtalk. With Winnie’s greatest hits. Apparently, we’ll fight on the beaches.
Along with Churchill and Roosevelt, there’s at least a sidelong glance at another former leader. 
The ad begins with the camera floating forward through the clouds, not unlike the opening of Triumph of the Will before his plane lands.
Diet Delight! 
With “Lesser Reasons We’re Thankful That Ronald Reagan was our 40th President,” nathansmusings calls attention to a special day’s special origin.
“In Proclamation #5157, President Ronald Reagan said:”Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day, and I call upon the American people to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.”
It was a decision steeped in appreciation of practical science.
” Frozen food became a part of the space age when Apollo XII astronauts took frozen meals on board. Seventy-two frozen food items were stored on the Skylab for a five hundred-day supply of meals for the crew.”
Time Capsules 
All Will Be Explained 
Top Ten lists are blogging gold! Or so we are told. But those feisty contrarians at technocult.com stumble against the tide, offering only five Kennedy assassination theories.
“Best” is generously awarded, and sadly, no new ground broken.
