The stamina and breadth of knowledge that this man posesses, not to mention the grace under pressure — and just plain grace — are quite amazing.
First — he goes to the so-called lion’s den and schools the GOP brain trust at their annual retreat (well done Mr. President).
Then he attends the Georgetown-Duke game and shares [...]
First off — Beulah’s match report is up! (This is on the Breakers’ win over the Freedom … which ranked somewhere below a broken windshield in Beulah’s book … understandably!) Sorry to hear about your windshield! As for Abby not getting up — that was a huge gripe of mine (and my compatriots) back in [...]
Thanks, AMR, for the link to this very special bracket! (I must say I’m a bit disappointed to see that he didn’t also complete a bracket on the women’s side. There’s still time, Mr. President!)
I am also trying to figure out if there is any way to get his picks into our pool here … [...]
Continue reading about … and So It Begins … The Madness, That Is!
Happy Saturday everyone! Looks like it’s going to be one beauty of a day. HollyCornblog and CharlieHopbrew should be on their way in another couple of hours and if I disappear for a while after they arrive, well, you’ll know what I’m up to!
Let’s see what’s happening in the world of soccer, first. I see [...]
Okay, so did you watch Obama last night? Was it not amazing to witness the president speaking in complete sentences and clearly able to think about complex ideas and issues?
Also amazing to see the partisanship so visible at certain points. Who were those people who weren’t applauding, anyway? They need to get on the bandwagon, [...]
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 [...]
I believe that the answer to that question is a resounding no. Oklahoma might have the slimmest of chances … but barring injuries, I don’t see anyone getting in the way of the Huskies’ march toward a national championship. The battle will be to see who the other three teams are in the Final Four.
NC [...]
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 [...]
Lincoln’s birthday … always an important date in my Book of Days. I do wish that we had never gone the President’s Day route – just too generic for my taste. I was not consulted, however.
Bookeaters are celebrating Mr. Lincoln’s birth with a perusal of Daniel Mark Epstein’s book, The Lincoln’s: Portrait of a Marriage. [...]
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 …
Here is [...]
It feels like Alaska here in NH this morning — and so my thoughts turn naturally to Sarah Palin. She is a busy gal, you betcha.
Everyone’s read, if they follow her at all, about how she is blaming the press for the public’s perceptions of her … and stepping up to protect her family from [...]
I begin with this poem by novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. She read it in All Things Considered yesterday, and you can give it a listen here!
U Being U
U Being U
Mr. President-Elect
Makes me wanna get MY stuff
correct
I feel like starting with something RADICAL
Like,
Love my Neighbor
Like share what I’ve got
Like think for myself
Like ask [...]
Continue reading about The Day that We Long Awaited Has Arrived!
