You are a Social Moderate (55% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (38% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. The test didn’t pick up … Continue reading →
John Kerry just can’t get no respect these days. Even Michael Crowley of the New Republic tells him–and none-too-gently, either, that his time is up. Not surprisingly, the peculiar offness, narcissism, and tone-deafness that Kerry exhibited during his Presidential campaign … Continue reading →
Took the day off today–back tomorrow!
Continue reading →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.
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