Catching up on a bunch of stuff with all the light-blogging over the past week:

I don’t know where Deerwood Country Club is (actually it would appear to be in Jacksonville, Florida) but this pic would be enough to make me re-think my membership. (Hat tip: brother Dave)

Just finished Marky Ramone’s book Punk Rock Blitzkrieg. A real enjoyable read and a page-turner. Reminded me of why the Ramones will always be in my top 5 of all-time favorite groups. They were one of a kind.

…on the other hand, David Halberstam’s classic The Best and the Brightest was a truly sad and maddening read. It showed just how much of a political coward John F. Kennedy was, and how the eastern elitists he surrounded himself with and passed along to Lyndon Johnson (a class A asshole if there ever was one) led us down the road to Vietnam. The McNamaras, Rusks, Bundys, et al all thought they knew better than anyone else and literally fabricated their way to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people for purely political means. You can criticize George W. Bush for Iraq all you want, but at least the Iraqis longed for freedom from the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein; the Vietnamese people who lived in the South (I won’t refer to them as “South Vietnamese” because there was never such a thing) could have cared less about us being there. All we were doing was propping up a weak and corrupt regime for appearances sake. It was truly an American tragedy, and I’ll never think of JFK and LBJ the same ever again. May the whole bunch rot in hell.

I guess we all get old. But let it be said that when she was younger Candace Bergen was a class A fox. And she was great opposite Sean Connery in The Wind and The Lion.

I’m pretty intrigued by the Red Sox this spring. Mookie Betts looks to be a keeper in center, and I’m guessing before too long Shane Victorino will be shipped out to make way for Rusney Castillo. Are they a little light in starting pitching? Perhaps. But if they’re anywhere close come the July trading deadline they’ve got oodles of prospects to trade for a front-line pitcher.

Back to the Ramones: who could get away with releasing a song like this today?