A Shout Out To Some Big People -- October 6, 2018

Susan Collins finds starring role in Kavanaugh vote -- Drudge Report link and top story. Immediate thought, actually two thoughts:

• if Trump gets a third opportunity for Supreme Court justice nominee: Susan Collins
• some screenwriter needs to write a screenplay just for Meryl Streep to play Susan Collins; it would rival To Kill A Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Guns of Navarone, and Apollo 13, just to name a few

Borked. Not. 

Disclaimer: because I was so far behind in my blogging and my mail, I posted a lot of stuff very quickly. There will be typographical and factual errors, as well as formatting errors. We will take care of them as time permits.

Trucks. Again. The reason for this stand-alone post was to give another shout-out to the truck drivers. I have said many times how much I respect the truck drivers in this country. Again, over the past 24 hours, driving from the Dallas area to the Yellowstone National Park area I was in awe of the truck drivers.

Lights On The Hill, Slim Dusty
Getting old: while driving, lots of thoughts. Many thoughts about how wonderful my dad was. RIP. He drove truck for awhile. He talked about it a lot.

Phantom 309, Red Sovine
In Phantom 309, Red describes the trucker only as a "big man, he weighed about 210..." and that was all, except for the name, "Big Joe."

What wasn't said about the trucker was even more important. He was a "big man...."

Wow, I just love great writing -- what to write, what not to write. I don't think Ernest Hemingway could have written a better line ... "he was  a big man ..." Red wasn't talking just about the driver's weight.

Susan Collins is probably one of the slightest women in the US Senate. Yesterday she proved she was a "big woman."

Wow.

Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses, Kathy Mattea
Six Days on the Road, Dave Dudley