Recently in Kennedy Category

After I pitched my fit, mixed another martini, and calmed down, I've thought of one bright spot to Scott Brown winning tonight, and that is that Joe Liebermann has suddenly become invisible.  He's no longer the 60th vote, and Reid can stop handing him the keys to the Senate chamber and following him around like a stray dog.  Maybe it's a good time to strip him of all his committee seats?  Eh?  How about censuring...

As a sideline to Scott's earlier blog, it turns out some of those aerial photos of the protesters that descended upon Washington, D.C. this weekend might be fake.  At least one is.  The photograph shown here was touted by Say Anything, a conservative blog, as reasonable justification for the claim of 1,000,000 attendees.    A sharp reader on the site posted the following photograph, proving that the above picture was taken before the National Museum of the American...

By design or circumstance, the final moments of the Era of the Kennedy Brothers ended privately, out of the public view, as the evening light faded over Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.  As it got darker, vague images of the honor guard, the bugler, the Custis-Lee Mansion were all we could see.  In the darkness, Teddy's grandchildren spoke of their private moments with their grandfather and Splash on the porch of the Kennedy house at...

My oldest son lives in Washington, DC, and shot this video of Ted Kennedy's funeral procession to Arlington National Cemetery....

Senator Edward M. Kennedy 1932-2009...

The Kennedy Family has created a website for people to send record rememberances or to send a message.  Visit and let them know how you feel about losing Uncle Teddy....

I've taken the loss of Ted Kennedy harder than I thought I would, even though we've known for over a year now that he had a brain tumor.  I think the fact that he made it through the election, then the inauguration of Barack Obama, I began to feel like that maybe he would make it; or maybe I just missed the passage of time.  I don't know, but the memories of the other two...