This should be a good time. Hillary finally conceded and Our Guy could be seven months away from his inauguration.
And yet. And yet.
I am filled with an impending sense of dread and doom. Darth Vader music is playing in my head each time I think of what’s coming.
It’s not the idea of McCain taking office [...]
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The other shoe to drop
Announcing the first Great Whatsit book club
When I was a kid, I got the greatest pleasure from doing what other people expected of me. Still, there were glitches. My friend L—’s dad taught our Deacon’s Quorum class in church (Sunday School for 12 and 13-year-old boys) a few times and seemed to be annoyed with me when I didn’t like his [...]
The long goodbye?
Analysts at Goldman Sachs recently projected that oil will likely reach $200.00 a barrel within the next year. GM announced today that it was closing four SUV manufacturing plants, and rumors are buzzing around that they will also discontinue the civilian-use line of Hummers. Are we on the cusp of real change? [...]
After Obama
I share the opinion of a number of political observers that the U.S. constitution’s separation of governmental power into three separate branches is not the best available solution. U.S. power has established similar constitutional regimes in various countries around the world, such as the Philippines, but the version of liberal democracy that developed in England [...]
On our sameness
Watching the humanitarian crises unfold in China and Myanmar over the last couple of weeks – the tens of thousands dead, the millions displaced, the masks of anger and despondency on refugees’ faces – we are troubled and deeply saddened. Some of us even weep over the more emotional reports about Chinese schoolchildren [...]
The carbon thing
I take the train down to Harrisburg for a wedding, three hours or so via Philadelphia. My hotel is within walking distance of the train station downtown, but to get just about anywhere else in Harrisburg you need to drive. I end up chauffeuring the bride’s mother and two cousins across the river to the [...]
The Lysenko effect
Remember the Cold War – those lazy, crazy days of mutually assured destruction? Funny to think that some in Whatsitland are too young to ever have contemplated the idea that the Soviets or that Ronald “nut-job” Reagan might one day just say, “The heck with it!” and lob a few thousand nukes eastwardly or [...]
The most important thing
A favorite joke of mine, set in the middle of the last century, I imagine around the time Brando was making his debut: A young Method actor is having lunch at Sardi’s with an old ham of an actor and asking for advice about the craft.
Young Method Actor: I’m working on a scene right now [...]
Losing the nomination
First off, this isn’t a Hillary-bashing post—I’m trying really hard to avoid that in the tone here (but I write this as an Obama supporter). Many individuals feel, I think somewhat logically, that Hillary is the most viable candidate for the big Fall election. But logic or not, I can’t ignore my gut. [...]
Emigration intérieure
I’ve told several writers for this site that a perfectly acceptable post would be a paragraph or two from something that caught their fancy plus a bit of commentary. So, in the spirit of finishing my taxes, allow me to demonstrate:
This weekend I needed something to read while waiting for my copy of The Essential [...]
