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Dancing... or drinking through life
I am not even sure that I know how to do a link anymore. I'm giving it a shot though so, three readers, please forgive me if I mess this up.
So Rod Dreher's sister is battling cancer. It is nasty. Their faith is extraordinary. Here's his latest post (I think)
There are 8 comments on it.
As I scrolle
posted 3:05:22pm Mar. 02, 2010 |
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Back...
I'm back here at JWalking after a bit of time because I just want someplace to record thoughts from time to time. I doubt that many of the thoughts will be political - there are plenty upon plenty of people offering their opinions on everything political and I doubt that I have much to add that will
posted 10:44:56pm Mar. 01, 2010 |
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Learning to tell a story
For the last ten months or so I've been engaged in a completely different world - the world of screenwriting. It began as a writing project - probably the 21st Century version of a yen to write the great American novel - a shot at a screenplay. I knew that I knew nothing about the art but was inspir
posted 8:01:41pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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And just one more
I have, I think, just one more round of chemo left.
When I go through my pill popping regimen tomorrow morning it will be the last time for this particular round of drugs. Twenty-three rounds, it seems, is enough.
What comes next? We'll go back to what we did after the surgery. We'll watch and measu
posted 11:38:45pm Nov. 18, 2008 |
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A Newfie for Obama
NPR asked me to do a short memo to the president-elect. I chose to do it on the dog he should choose... and why. Check it out.
posted 12:25:10am Nov. 15, 2008 |
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posted January 8, 2008 at 11:17 pm
It’d better do the same for Obama, for we as a nation cannot afford to have Hillary Clinton become the nominee. (And I say that as a lifelong Democrat.) Her dismissive and insulting comments about MLK (vs. LBJ) were sickening and lost my vote forever.
But I also can’t handle four more years (or more) of divisive attitudes in Washington. (But who am I kidding? The thought that this nation would elect her over McCain is a farce.)
posted January 8, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I wouldn’t underestimate the importance of Hillary’s leg up in organization: she had her pick of some real talent when it comes to campaigning, and some of her top guns were in NH. Volatile polls ultimately cannot compare to field programs winning over and solidifying votes one by one and then herding them to the polls en masse.
posted January 8, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Bad:
But that’s just what Obama did in Iowa … go figure.
David:
Lots of other commentators (many of whom are not liberal, such as Rod Dreher) are saying that Obama was just as eloquent in defeat as he was in victory in Iowa — and that Hillary’s victory speech was pedestrian.
Not so much that I agree with Rod (I didn’t see either), more that all this “looking into one’s soul” punditry, a la George W. Bush with Vladimir Putin, is usually just as accurate.
posted January 8, 2008 at 11:51 pm
There goes the inevitability. I can’t handle four more years of mealymouthed “bipartisanship” that achieves nothing.
posted January 9, 2008 at 12:42 am
Half of America does not think of any Kennedy as a hero. The problem with Obama, is anyone rejecting him because he is liberal-progressive ideologue (and the evil that that is), will get the race card slapped in their face. Obama gives good speeches and is attached to bad politics. Like the Kennedy’s of today, his politics are not good for honest people.
posted January 9, 2008 at 1:47 am
Donny,
You’re Republicans want socialism for the rich. They dole out corporate welfare to Cheney’s company Halliburton hand over fist.
And you know what Donny…? Cheney and his buddies probably laugh at GAO reports that we’re only getting 50 cents back in services for every federal dollar spent.
If you like the Republican corporate welfare program why don’t you and your family foot the bill for Iraq and things like missile defense shields that Nobel Prize physicists say will never work.
I’m sorry dude, but moral absolutism belongs outside of politics for a pluralistic society. If you can’t handle it, then go join the Nazi party.
posted January 9, 2008 at 8:12 am
I watchd the concession speech and missed the concession. Did he ever congratulate Clinton?
posted January 9, 2008 at 9:07 am
David,
I sense a undertone of cynicism w/ the(BHO)label.. As an Indepentant voter I was truly drawn to Barak for his willingness to build bridges… as Americans we have a common bond but perhaps it is to late for this type of ideology to save us as a country.
Doug – He congratulated Hilary first thing ..
posted January 9, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Thanks, Biendahtom. I must have missed that part. It was a good speech but I was surprised it seemed like a stump speech.
posted January 9, 2008 at 1:46 pm
DID ANYONE WATCH OBAMA’s SPEECH??? It was ridiculously good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe751kMBwms&feature=user (Scroll to 10:00 min into it) I am republican, and I got goosebumps listening to it. Every person in the room probably drove to South Carolina chanting “yes we can.”
Hilary may have won. Hilary may have come across well in her speech. But, frankly it was a downer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5LvylbVEE8&feature=user *Sniff, sniff, yawn!