Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Zhombre forwarded this email to me. I think it’s right on the money: If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian,
Continue readingOkay, I admit it. I was a completely failure as a blogger today. On the other hand, my hair looks great, my mom is happy, my sister has worked her way through her latest (real) crisis, and I’m going out with my husband tonight — so, at a personal level,
Continue readingOn September 28, 2009, I wrote this: I think the world has sized Obama up and concluded that he’s weak, very weak. The Olympics are a good example of this. One theory has it that Chicago is in, and that the price for that is Obama’s appearance before the Olympic
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Continue readingTasks this morning, so blogging must wait. Also, I’m still struggling with a “big idea” that seems to have blocked my capacity to make many observations about the current scene. I went to a scintillating book group meeting last night, though, and am hopeful that it will help break the
Continue readingAll of us have long known that poverty in America isn’t like poverty anywhere else in the world. There really isn’t anything here comparable to the poverty in Haiti, or Calcutta, or large swathes of Africa. Even poor people have televisions and phones. And it’s apparent that a surprising number
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative. I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance. Several of you pointed out, in
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdGJuDZp4I[/youtube] (Not usually my type of music, but it’s great for working out.)
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