“She wasn’t thoughtful enough to know she wasn’t thoughtful enough.”
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | No Comments »Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, can certainly turn a phrase. However, she outdid herself this weekend! My fave quote of her article is also my favorite quote of the week: "She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't ...
Scandals and Justice? Not in DC.
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | 2 Comments »IN the July 11 edition of Politico.com, Abby Phillip posted "The people who benefit from scandals" and wrote about the people who make out well as a result of political sex scandals, such as the cases of Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, ...
Michael Jackson
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | 2 Comments »Michael Jackson and I were nearly the same age; both of us were to turn fifty-one this summer. I made it. From age ten through twenty-one years old, Michael Jackson was an integral part of my life: much to my dismay ...
Obama Channels “The Bard” and Henry V.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | No Comments »"That must be the starting point for every debate we have in the coming months and where we return after those debates are done. That is the foundation on which the American people expect us to build common ground. And if ...
Obama and the Birth of the Cool.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | No Comments »Obama held the hearts, minds and souls of hundreds of thousands in the palm of his hand during his speech this afternoon. While most were waiting for soaring rhetoric, Obama spoke of humility and strength. He spoke of inclusion and ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics, Technology | No Comments »Check it out!
Amazing! Simply Amazing!
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | No Comments »To quote the late Tim Russert, "What a country!"
This is for Real.
Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | No Comments »Tomorrow morning I'll wake up and know that Barack Obama will be President before nightfall. I still find this to be freaking amazing. A new President and so far I haven't been reciting the last line from "We Won't Get Fooled ...
Been away for a while… yet there are scoundrels and scalawags afoot!
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in News, Politics, Race | 2 Comments »Grad School is a Pure D. Beeyatch! Just finished two midterms, have two research papers due, trying to get that last student loan to go through, (can't register for next semester until I give 'em the whole 15 grand!), YIKES! Full ...
Saving grace, perhaps?
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Current Events, News, Politics | 1 Comment »This afternoon Sen. McCain addressed a rally in Minnesota and, evidently, the scary tenor of the crowds attending his events finally got to him. A woman, quivering with emotion, said she was scared of Obama because he was an "Arab!" McCain ...