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By: How to Save the World

How to Save the World — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:56:43 +0000

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By: Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Stuff

Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Stuff — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:13:14 +0000

[...] Then read I Am an Enemy Combatant. [...]

By: enemy combatant « verbal privilege

enemy combatant « verbal privilege — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:28:28 +0000

[...] But read it all. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:40:35 +0000

Yes, you’re right — I want so much to like this President because of his good taste in poetry and music! We shall see. As for me, yeah, I’ve been a big fan of the blues for more twenty years, and blues lyrics have influenced how I put poems together, too, I think.

By: Renny

Renny — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:54:30 +0000

Ahh, a fellow fan of the blues. That and humor help keep me grounded. Politicians, hopefully are not in the business to be deceitful, but it certainly seems to hold true that…either power corrupts, or in it long enough, they become corruptable. Even after Oliver Stone’s self-fulfilling “Wall Street” (“greed is good”) we see post election officials squander their pre-election, high-minded ideals. At least this Pres. likes poetry and the blues, so there’s still some hope.

By: sarah b

sarah b — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:49:54 +0000

What a time we live in when we must turn to a comedy show to get the truest news. Or maybe that’s ruest. Rue the day.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:58:48 +0000

Hi Robb – Glad you liked. I guess nothing would surprise me about Cheney. He and Rumsfeld were villains straight out central casting. In a way, though, that made it easier — we knew who our enemies were. Obama and many of his minions, by contrast, seem very likeable and well-intentioned, which makes their transgressions against reason and ethics much harder to swallow. On conservation issues, for example, I had hoped the Obama regime would be at least as O.K. as the Clinton regime, but it isn’t shaping up that way. I had had fairly low expectations, I thought, but they still turned out to be too high.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:51:13 +0000

Are you saying I’m a Boaz? (Better than a Bozo, I guess.)

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:46:40 +0000

Really? Wow. Thanks for the comment.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:45:42 +0000

Thanks. I am flattered you group me with Jon Stewart! My mother and I watch the Daily Show together on the computer every evening after supper (the previous night’s show). It’s become a ritual, with much cathartic laughter.