Palin
November 6, 2009
- After this week's big losses for Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, one can't help but speculate about the impact the far right, bible belt conservatives will have on the landscape that is the Republican Party over the next eight years. Some see civil war already in the works with faux moderates being tackled by the nouveau neo-conservative movement.
The John Birch Society, which has been ...
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November 26, 2008
- I am endlessly fascinated with the juxtapositions of pictures and headlines in newspapers. Sometimes I think the layout people just get bored, but other times things seem to be totally coincidental. I’ve been working for years on a scrapbook about this stuff (which may or may not ever see the publishing light of day), but when I saw this example in the Philadelphia Enquirer last Thursday for my ...
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November 20, 2008
- This, my dears, is what passes for discourse on a so-called news program in the early twenty-first century:My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was ...
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November 18, 2008
- On NPR there was a segment about political news junkies who can no longer get a good fix. The nation is coming down. How to come to terms with post election blues? Do you suffer from it? I think I may have a few symptoms. For example, I don't know what to blog about. In comparison to the election my family seems boring and flacid and so I make them perform skits until I laugh or scoff.I ...
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November 10, 2008
- As the curtain mercifully falls on the Most Important Election of Your Lifetime, the nation breathes a collective sigh of relief. Or do they? Sure, there were enough Byzantine plot twists and darkly rich comic characters to exhaust Dostoyevsky’s older smarter brother. And I imagine more than a few of you are woke up spent, limp, barely able to grasp your coffee cup and raise it to quivering ...
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November 6, 2008
- In early 2007, fishermen patrolled the Antarctic's Ross Sea looking for Patagonian toothfish (aka Chilean Sea Bass and please stop buying and eating it if you are so inclined; not enough is known about how it survives and it is being illegally caught and sold by less-than-honorable people in many cases...) when they noted an odd tug on one line. When they hauled it in, they found a colossal squid ...
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November 4, 2008
- Well, this is it. Election Day...We will now see how many of the campaign promises made by both candidates resonate with the general public and how much of the mud slung by the attack machine stuck to the intended target.For me, this election is 1000 times better than the last two, mostly because the choices are better. For all intents and purposes, McCain is a lot better than Bush and has the ...
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October 31, 2008
- I've been on the road reading in support of THE ENTIRE EARTH AND SKY: Views on Antarctica. While on Live from Prairie Lights! in Iowa City, (which will be re-broadcast on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. on WSUI, or http://wsui.uiowa.edu/prairie_lights.htm) I was asked about the global climate change research in my book. There are comments throughout about the state of the ice and temperature in ...
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October 27, 2008
- One week. After decades of broken politics in Washington, eight years of failed policies from George Bush, and twenty-one months of a campaign that has taken us from the rocky coast of Maine to the sunshine of California, we are one week away from change in America. In one week, you can turn the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard ...
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October 27, 2008
- These two candidates form a Chimeric Maverick the rarest of breeds, now you see them, now you do not; disappearing before your very eyes come November 4, 2008 A Chimera in Genetics is a hybrid of two separate species; in politics, it is the equivalent of trying to be every man for every season. McCain/Palin is a Chimera, a unique combination of Right-Wing Conservative Ideologist ...
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