The other day as I was driving around my blue-as-blue-can-be town of nearly-disappeared anti-Bush bumper stickers, I glimpsed one of the last holdouts: a Volvo proudly emblazoned with a whole bunch of them. The one that particularly saddened me was … Continue reading →
I’m taking today off to be with family. My son is visiting (the one who convinced me to start the blog). But I wanted to thank everyone for the kind words on my blogaversary (sp?). They mean a lot to … Continue reading →
It’s my one-year blog anniversary. Sort of. Kind of. Why the asterisk? Although the first day I ever posted on this blog was nominally almost exactly a year ago–September 16, 2004–I wrote very little for the first five months. To … Continue reading →
I had no idea David Brooks was a comedian, but this column of his is pretty funny stuff (of course, he had some awfully good material to work with). Is it possible that David is any relation to Albert or … Continue reading →
I’m not particularly conversant with Japanese politics, but this seems like an important story. Japanese voters answered the call of Prime Minister Koizumi with a strong vote to return him to power on a platform of reforming and streamlining the … Continue reading →
There are so many excellent blogs and bloggers that I can’t even begin to keep up with all the ones I want to read, and still continue to do any writing myself. But every now and then I find a … Continue reading →
Well, the prodigal has returned. It seems my blogroll is back, as though it had never left. I give up trying to figure out the ups and downs of this. I’m just glad to see it again. All is forgiven.
Continue reading →The death of Chief Justice Rehnquist had just been announced on the TV in the den. I wasn’t watching it, though–just listening from the kitchen, where I was cleaning out the fridge. People who had known him were telling anecdotes … Continue reading →
This–surprised me, somehow. At least, some on the list did.
Continue reading →When you’ve got a blog, it does seem sometimes that you’ve put all your eggs in one basket. You feel uniquely vulnerable (at least I do) and dependent on the tender mercies of Blogger.com, for instance, not to screw your … Continue reading →
This morning I watched some cable television coverage of the rescue efforts now finally underway in the Gulf. It’s a wonderful and long-awaited sight: the helicopters swooping down to fill up with people and carry them to relative safety, the … Continue reading →
I’ve not posted on the tragedy that is post-Katrina New Orleans because so many others are already doing the job so well. But I don’t want to ignore it, either. The grief and fear the city and its survivors–both rescued … Continue reading →