When I was a boy there was a toy called a clacker. It had many names yet had minimum amusement. It was two acrylic balls connected to a string. I jerked the string and caused the balls to be in motion and they’d smack into each other and make a click /clack sound. The idea [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
Clique & Claque
Posted in Culture, Life, News, Politics, Relationships, tagged Life, News, Politics on November 5, 2008 | No Comments »
A Vision Of Long Division
Posted in Culture, Life, News, Politics, Random Thoughts, Relationships, Roman Catholicism, tagged Life, News, Politics on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How can 1 in 7 voters remain undecided so late in the game?
Because they’re afraid. Because they know McCain is too old and Palin is too inexperienced and Obama is too leftist and he leaves too many questions unanswered. Because they know it’s broken and they don’t know how to fix it. Because they stand [...]
Our Civilization Hangs In The Balance
Posted in Culture, Life, News, Politics, Roman Catholicism, tagged Life, News, Politics on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I read with great sorrow this morning of the effigy of Sarah Palin that hangs from Chad Morrisette’s roof in California. I’m a democrat. I can’t comprehend it. Regardless of political ideology, this is inappropriate at best and outrageously vile at worst. This isn’t freedom of speech. I don’t understand a community who would permit [...]
Recycled
Posted in Culture, News, Random Thoughts, Roman Catholicism, tagged News on October 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Last Saturday morning while I was driving home, I came to an intersection where a service road meets a parkway. I saw a commotion and I saw that the road was blocked. Ahead was a crowd of people gathered around a bicyclist who had been hit by a SUV. I backed out of the intersection [...]
Acting Like An Activist
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Media, News, Politics, tagged Media, News, Politics on September 23, 2008 | No Comments »
My opinion about celebrities engaged in public political debate isn’t influenced by my political leanings. Politically I could not be more liberal. I have a problem with a disproportionate amount of influence. Actors are performers. They perform a function. They either perform the function of serving the writer or offering a performance for entertaining the [...]