Obama’s the one
It appears that Obama is starting to pull away from Clinton. I’ve made no secret of my preference for Hillary over Obama: I think she’d mount less of a challenge to McCain, but if elected I also think she would … Continue reading →
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Third anniversary: if you blog long enough….
…you find you’ve written about almost everything. Now that I’m somewhere around my third anniversary of active blogging (yikes! gadzooks! arghhh!) I have to say I never expected to still be doing this at this point. But I continue to … Continue reading →
Helpful reminder
You all know what day it is. Now get cracking and get something. As for me, it’s a sad sad thing that I can only accept virtual chocolate. And here’s some for all of you:
Continue reading →A sonnet in praise of sonnets
I write some poetry from time to time, And gravitate to forms, I must confess. I crave some meter and a bit of rhyme. Free verse can be illusory progress. The sonnet with its prescribed fourteen lines Presents a special … Continue reading →
Moughniyah, he dead
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Whodunit? No dearth of suspects, no lack of enemies. All well-deserved, I would imagine. [NOTE: The title of this post comes from the last line of Heart of Darkness, as well as the … Continue reading →
Obama: too young at heart
It’s no accident that Obama does well with young voters. There’s something about his rhetoric that especially appeals to the idealism of youth. As Betsy Newmark points out, the young are often “too ignorant of history to realize that change … Continue reading →
Sanity Squad update
The Squad is taking two weeks off the podcast circuit. Till then.
Continue reading →Ten most famous Americans: the changing American educational scene
There’s been some hoo-ha in the blogopsphere about a poll asking 2000 high school students to name the ten most famous Americans. Here was their list: 1. Martin Luther King Jr.: 67% 2. Rosa Parks: 60% 3. Harriet Tubman: 44% … Continue reading →
Preach it Ross, preach it!
Ross Douthat has a description of the McCain-bashing pundits that’s not likely to sit well with them. But I think he’s spot on: With their inflexibility, grudge-holding and eagerness to evict heretics rather than seek converts, too many of conservatism’s … Continue reading →
McCain: a choice, not an echo?
Read the speech John McCain made on Thursday to CPAC for yourself, and see what you think. Although he freely admits that he hasn’t always marched to conservative tunes on every issue, he asserts his basic conservatism. McCain then goes … Continue reading →
Late-night blog visitors
One of the greatest pleasures of having a blog is viewing the sitemeter and noticing the broad geographic scope of the visitors. It’s a graphic demonstration of how the internet reaches around the globe, even with a moderate-sized blog such … Continue reading →
The army rewrites its operations manual: reinventing the wheel
First we had the new counterinsurgency manual. Now the army has a new operations manual with an emphasis on postwar stabilization. This is referred to as a “newly minted doctrine” and “a major development that draws on the hard-learned lessons … Continue reading →