Oh oh oh – LobsterGram Oh, the succulent littleneck clam, the heavenly creamy clam chowder, the magnificent live twin lobsters! I get homesick this time of year, and for some reason I’m not flashing to my cherished Vermont Grade A medium amber maple syrup (in a can, not a plastic jug) so much as I am the steamers and lobsters. Shouldn’t I be thinking of these things in July? Guess we’ll have to head over to the Atlanta Fish Market…
Dominick the Donkey My hubby thought I’d completely lost my mind when he encountered me here singing along…. (hat tip, Sharon P) I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas (thanks, Alan M) From my dear cousin, who hopes the revival is simply a local phenom.
Your 2005 Song Is “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day “My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating” In 2005, you bummed everyone out. Like you care. What Hit Song of 2005 Are You? (Thanks to Sara)
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I like many of the ideas in Wesley Clark’s op-ed piece on Iraq from the August 26th Washington Post. I somehow missed it before – but it sounds like it could have been published today. Before It’s Too Late in Iraq, Washington Post
Congrats to Atlanta’s own John Suggs for this timely article in Mother Jones on the so-called “Christian Reconstruction” movement and its influence in Washington. I’ve been following this disturbing movement for some time. “This is a faith in which religion is not an influence on politics; it is politics.” “In this worldview, the mandate for Christians is not just to live right or to help their neighbors: They are called upon to take over or eliminate the institutions of secular…