Yesterday wasn’t a good day to be a celebrity.
Thinking about Michael Jackson, I feel so sad, seeing his transformation, through the years, from a beautiful child/young man, to the grotesquerie that he became. What better metaphor for the excesses, prejudices, and superficial values of our culture? In the end, I almost felt relieved to hear [...]
Healing is painful.
Coming out from under the shadow cast by the past 8 years (and the even larger shadow cast by the long ascendency of the rabid religious right) is going to take time. A long, painful, and ultimately freeing process in which the stories that emerge, both large and small, are heartbreaking and infuriating.
Here’s [...]
That’s how Michael Steele has described the Republican Party. I agree that muck is a great way to describe a medium comprised of the detritus of right wing preachers, radio hacks, and turdblossoms. But it doesn’t seem wise for a party that is struggling mightily to find its identity, should choose as its cheerleader-in-chief, someone [...]
First off – congratulations to Swarthmore College on selecting its 14th president – and to Rebecca S. Chopp on being that person. She is currently the President of Colgate … and a scholar of religion and American Culture. Nice to have a woman there – and she sounds like a great choice.
Second – I heard [...]
So the stimulus package has passed, as the sun rises on this beautiful Saturday morning. It wouldn’t have, without the help of Arlen Specter, Olympia Snow, and Susan Collins – courageous, centrist Republicans in a sea of dissembling, disingenuous, faux bipartisan doofusses mouthing old platitudes and marching in lockstep. Why? Putting politics first, it seems [...]
Do you live in one of America’s ten most miserable cities? Hope not. That would be miserable. And speaking of miserable – I’d forgotten that Laura Ingraham existed,’til I read this on Huffington. Glad Arlen gave her a scolding. Nothing wrong with debate – but if we had a few fewer of these shrill, [...]
Continue reading about Wednesday. That’s All – Just Wednesday.
Whoo hoo! I got up early enough to do a little working out before hitting the computer – and all looks brighter. Amazing what a little circulating blood can do, eh? I am raring to go now …
But first, a few snippets of news as the sun begins to color the eastern horizon …
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Maddow on her interview with Blago … very weird stuff from the Gov. about cowboys here …
Much of this made great grist for Jon Stewart. And then here’s the actual interview …
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Excellent interview, Rachel! Rod is not in touch with reality … but I guess that should not come as any [...]
This isn’t funny at all. It’s bizarre. Unfathomable. It’s one of those incidents that makes me feel like America is just a big, mindless appetite, ravening and rampaging.
What am I talking about? This.
Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains. One [...]
Continue reading about Gratitude Gives Way as Shoppers Rampage
First and foremost, it’s the 25th anniversary of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund – an amazing organization that has had a huge impact on the lives of people in NH. (It is also one of the few investments that hasn’t tanked in recent months … so you might want to think about investing your [...]
I was going to post this earlier this morning, but then decided that it deserved its own place. It’s an excellent piece from Salon explicating the reaction to Michelle Obama. Read it … and consider this recent post from Princess Sparkle Pony. All I can think of is the Obama’s daughters … and how challenging [...]
