Sep
02
Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far is a pretty good list - see any themes?
On this Larry Craig scandal in particular, I’m struck again by how destructive it is when people cannot accept themselves for who they are. There is a strange doubling of the personality. People talk about hypocrisy, but it’s [...]
Jan
24
SNL is reviving again, and I am grateful. These two bits made my whole week.
Really!?! - Seth Myers and Amy Poehler
This new segment is fantastic. I was laughing so hard that I almost fell off the couch. Worth staying up to watch.
Hardball - Amy Poehler (as Hillary Clinton) and Darryl Hammond (as [...]
Jan
03
Perhaps Robert George really did intend to write an article that would describe the Well-Lived Life of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, but the result leaves a sour taste in my mouth somehow. It misses something central about her.
Yes, she made a political turn into more conservative terrain. I’m not sure that everyone was so angry about it [...]
Jul
11
My friend and colleague Tina Trent has canvassed Democratic candidates running for state office. Feel free her use her questions as a template for your own questioning.
Click to see their responses.
Dear Neighbors in Georgia House Districts 58 and 59 and Senate District 36,
On July 6, I polled all Democratic candidates in these races. I [...]
Jul
02
Overly-true joke of the day:
What’s worse than a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
A wolf in shepard’s clothing.
And all the sheeple, too.
May
29
I actually spent some time beginning to compose a persuasive and compelling letter to the assorted pseudo-Christians, neo-cons, anti-liberals, supergreedy imperialist corporatists, and dominionists/supremacists (I think most of them wear the same hood).
But I caught myself. Why bother? Why do I expend all this energy at this level?
I went to a local pool [...]
May
29
You are an Existential Thinker
Existential thinkers:
Like to spend time thinking about philosophical issues such as “What is the meaning of life?”
Try to see beyond the ‘here and now’, and understand deeper meanings
Consider moral and ethical implications of problems as well as practical solutions
Other Existential Thinkers include
The Buddha, Gandhi, Plato, Socrates, Martin Luther King
Careers which suit [...]