In recent discussions of the film “Groundhog Day” on this blog, I’ve noticed a couple of people questioning why the Bill Murray character would find Andie McDowell’s Rita deserving of all those years of his devotion and energy. For example, … Continue reading →
Deep thoughts bot: As far as me being a member here, I wasn’t aware that I was a member for any days, actually…But we’re certainly all members in the world of ideas.
Continue reading →Rick Santorum’s surge doesn’t puzzle me. It’s his turn at being the non-Romney frontrunner. By saying that I don’t mean to put him down, but it’s hard to avoid the pattern that’s been emerging: Romney is the supposed “annointed one” … Continue reading →
Commenter “uncleFred” writes about addiction: “There for the grace of God”¦” Not so much. Drug abuse is not like getting hit by a meteor, or struck by lightening, it is a choice. Go to an AA meeting. Sit for a … Continue reading →
Whitney Houston, dead at 48. I had no idea she was that young, which tells you how her life had been ravaged by drugs and who knows what else. Once a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice, she reportedly got … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Every now and then I may repost something from the past that might seem relevant or interesting. Here’s something I originally wrote in 2008.] I grew up in an era in which abortion was both difficult to obtain and … Continue reading →
I still buy CDs. But then, I’m a Leonard Cohen fan, and apparently that’s the sort of archaic thing we folks do. If I’m just buying a single song, though, I usually pay my 99 cents (or $1.29, because inflation … Continue reading →
Socially, yes. Otherwise, not quite as much of one as you might think. Somewhat like Romney, Santorum has the problem of coming from a somewhat liberal state (although nowhere near as liberal as Massachusetts) where he had to please his … Continue reading →
What hath progress wrought? Free to be you and me. I’m old enough to remember the rigid boundaries that these movements were supposed to be correcting, and I’m glad the worst of them have been removed. But it’s been an … Continue reading →
…with John Hinderaker, with the exception of his first sentence. Unlike Hinderaker, I never was “confident that Republican voters would oust Barack Obama in 2012, hold the House and, in all likelihood, take the Senate.” And that’s because what Hinderaker … Continue reading →
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that President Obama has decided to extend the exemption for abortion coverage of employees to not just the Catholic Church, but church-affiliated companies. He probably didn’t expect the extent of the protest, and … Continue reading →
…some of the pseudo-green practices discussed in this thread are like a dieter putting that packet of artificial sweetener in his/her coffee to go with the piece of chocolate cake by its side.
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