Joe the Other Plumber Maybe if enough of us link to him, we'll overcome the other Joe the Plumber.

Why do we keep making war veterans?Is it written in a rule book somewhere?Is it written in our genes?

Re: Fireside ChatsLet's have these again. Minus the fireplace. (Maybe a solar-powered atrium. Maybe the Oval Office.)Forget the weekly radio broadcasts; or, don't forget them, but make them weekly television programs and video podcasts. [I will confess right here that I have never, not once, listened…

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And, we think there should be a cat.

Re: Fireside Chats

Let's have these again. Minus the fireplace. (Maybe a solar-powered atrium. Maybe the Oval Office.)

Forget the weekly radio broadcasts; or, don't forget them, but make them weekly television programs and video podcasts. [I will confess right here that I have never, not once, listen… Read full post »

So, I realize this is a minor thing in the Great Scheme of Things, especially these days, when we speak of money in incomprehensible numbers.

But, am I allowed to notice that the Republican Party has spent more than ten times my annual income on Sarah Palin's wardrobe?  May I… Read full post »

UPDATED 17 October: Here we go again.

 

What does it mean to love one's country? Don't most of us love our country?

John McCain says that he loves this country, not just as a place, but as an idea. In this, we agree. I'm sure there's some amount of academic writing… Read full post »

I keep hearing about this fellow, but we haven't seen much of him the past few years: this man who stands on principle; this man who will fight his own party when he thinks it's the right thing to do.

We got a glimpse of him, that mythical maverick,… Read full post »

Tonight CBS News aired another piece of Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin (you can see the video here.) One bit especially caught my attention (from the transcript):

Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read… Read full post »

The pundits tell me that the Wall Street Bailout went down because of a public angry enough to pressure their representatives, in a ratio of about ten to one, to vote against it. FiveThiryEight.com says:

Among 38 incumbent congressmen in races rated as "toss-up" or "lean" by… Read full post »

In a conversation with a friend the other day, about the Palin-Couric interviews, he wondered "But why did Couric keep asking that question?" -- the question being: Can you name any time, other than the one two years ago, that Senator McCain has supported regulation?

I was surprised, and
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... as I try to wrap my mind around this, in some concrete way I can understand.

We have a House (a real house), and a House Owner, and a House Buyer. The House Owner and the House… Read full post »

I seem to be full of them.

Many years ago -- when the ERA was an issue -- I shared one of these with a women's group. I said that, though we had much work to do in the coming years to make life easier for women, we had already… Read full post »

This is just too much.

Barack Obama used the line "lipstick on a pig" to describe McCain's policies -- just as McCain used the same line to describe Hillary Clinton's policies.

At first, we got outrage from the McCain campaign, accusing Obama of sexism. I forget -- did that happen… Read full post »

I've never regretted my decision to not have children. I made that decision quite young, and possibly for the wrong reasons; but it was the right decision for me nonetheless. The problem is not some grief for an imaginary child, but rather, for real children.

The… Read full post »