Politics
November 6, 2009
- My friend Farnsworth, a Wall Street stockbroker, called last night and said, ``How's the writing game going?'' `` So-so at best.'' I said. ``Same here,'' said Farnsworth. ``Well,'' I said, ``from the news, I see that at least you and much of Wall Street just got your swine flu shots, unlike the rest of us, including women and children.'' ``Yep, and naturally everyone's making a big deal out ...
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November 4, 2009
- The town Robert Louis Stevenson nearly burned down (wondered if the moss hanging off live oak trees burned, so took a match and . . . ), that Clark Ashton Smith and Steinbeck wrote in. . .Pacific Grove, California . . . could be without a library. There's a parcel tax on yesterday's ballot to keep the library going. Nancy's on the library board, works hard like others, hours of calls to get ...
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November 4, 2009
- Along with 130 some other small business owners and self employed people (Democrats, Republicans and Independents) from across the country, I went to Washington yesterday to amplify the voices of those who are among the 58-72% of Americans in support of a public option. I was excited--and surprised--to hear that Republican Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker agreed to a Tennessee ...
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November 4, 2009
- Right the Bill My fourteen year- old son came home from school yesterday and immediately began a conversation with the differences between the two political parties. I assumed the topic was brought up at school (at this time of the year) and why he was full of questions and answers for me. He said: He thinks that the (A) political party seems to have a focus and ...
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November 1, 2009
- Got confused by the recent political Town Hall Tea Parties. For one thing, no one served tea. But a lot of yelling about health and insurance. Well, then, they should have serrved tea, a great source of antioxidants, especially if you drink green tea. The Cleveland Tea Party, of course, was a great symbol of American spirit, when we tossed, at the behest of the coffee lobby, all that damn ...
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October 20, 2009
- While I've been paying a bit of attention lately to the local stage to try to do my part in making sure we don't have another disastrous four years under Governor Jon Corzine (especially since I unfortunately did my part to put him IN office by voting for him), the national circus has continued. Rather than a long-winded tirade today, let's just do a tally, shall we?$6,700 - The amount of ...
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October 15, 2009
- Election excitement is still in the air. Two days ago Natalie came home from high school and announced that she had gotten the most votes for the position of classroom president, but she didn't get the job. She was very indignant. Being originally from The States she has "winner take all" in her blood. She received 15 votes, her girl friend 14 votes, a fellow in the class 13 ...
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October 9, 2009
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I don't believe in hope. I think hope and religious faith are the two most insidious and cold blooded of human conventions:each offer up the unattainable and each incur endless suffering. I grew up in a country whose ideologues exploited religious conviction to validate the most dehumanising form of racism since their teachers attempted to practice its principles during World War Two. ...
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September 25, 2009
- [This is an expanded version of a talk given to the University Democrats student group at the University of Texas at Austin, September 23, 2009.] For months, leftists have been pointing out the absurdity of the claim that Barack Obama is a socialist. But no matter how laughable, the claim keeps popping up, most recently in the form of the Republican Party chairman’s warning of “a ...
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September 20, 2009
- "I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to George Logan "Instead of serving a king, our leaders could serve Burger King." ~Stephen Colbert, on the intentions of the Framers ...
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