Archive for September, 2009

first billy mays, now mary travers.

September 17th, 2009

It’s all getting to be a bit much for me.   Eileen was reading Huffington Post last night and gasped.  “Mary Travers died!”  Then not five minutes later:  “Oh my god, Henry Gibson died!”
What is going on around here?
The shock of people passing away at age 72 or 73 is part of it for sure.  But [...]

maybe our kids will listen to HIM

September 8th, 2009

The uproar over the speech President Obama just gave at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA couldn’t simply have been about politics.  Did conservatives really think that Obama would stand up and encourage kids to advocate for universal health care?   They just couldn’t be that stupid.
So maybe it’s something else?  I ruminate on this on [...]


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