It’s finally Friday, and after work today I’ll be driving over Hogback to HollyCornblog’s house! She says she’ll have the chiminea going and some homebrews ready for sampling when I get there!
In soccer news I see that, apparently, a share of the LA Sol is going to be up for grabs soon. Any buyers? Any [...]
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’m thinking that title doesn’t even make sense. But that aside, it went well today, going back to work. Nice to get back, actually. That’s not to say I wouldn’t love a few more hours free each day – or a bit more sleep. But complaining would be beyond unseemly in the current economic climate, [...]
It’s day two of what continues to feel like a new era. Obama faces a plethora of daunting tasks, and we are on notice that for hope to burn bright, we need to roll up our sleeves and help. That’s the difference. Obama’s no white-haired GOP fake Father-Knows-Best, but a competent and inspiring leader who’s [...]
It’s “hump day” and I’m heading back to work tomorrow after a LONG vacation. This morning I’m celebrating the Phillies’ amazing come from behind win over the Mets. (Can you say first place?) Seven runs down and they come back and win it in the 13th. Go Phillies! That … and the Red Sox pummeled [...]
The news out of Eldorado, Texas is ugly, ugly, ugly. We’re told that the “polygamist sect ruled with fear.” And while the news depicts them as a “splinter group” I’d say that there’s a clear connection between so-called mainstream fundamentalism and these groups that the mainstream would like to repudiate when they come to light. [...]
Awake in a mostly-sleeping house, I find time to be still and contemplate before the day gets underway. Christmas is such a marker of the passage of time and of the status of our hopes and dreams – or so it feels to me at the moment. No matter how I feel about what our culture [...]
