How’s that bathtub-drowning project going? A serious threat to American health, and all you can do is flail:
The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said Thursday, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato can get its good name back.
Shoot, I hope [...]
I was deeply annoyed by McCain’s shameless promotion of the “Obama neglects wounded troops” non-issue, and suspected that whatever Obama did on that trip would have drawn criticism from the right. And, lo and behold (from BusinessWeek, via Atrios):
What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke [...]
Does spite play a part in how people vote? Sadly, yes!
One of the worst things about being a parent is watching my kid(s) struggle for the lack of skills I can’t teach them. This week my daughter has been training to be a counselor at a girls’ camp. She did fine with the younger girls until she was paired with another counselor-in-training who [...]
One of the downsides of being somewhat sensitive to language, but not especially personally persuasive, is that one is aware of many things without being able to describe them to others. That’s why I’m so grateful to Digby for On Dogwhistles, which explains the deep ugliness inherent in a lot of right-wing political speech. [...]
For some reason, after finishing the post below, this song floated into my head. Written by Carl Story and performed by Rhonda Vincent and the Rage:
Oh you don’t love God, if you don’t love your neighbor
If you gossip about him, if you never have mercy
If he gets into trouble, and you don’t try to [...]
I recently ran across this phrase on a Christian site (sadly, I don’t remember where) defending a recent change of some sort. It struck me as odd at the time, so I Googled the phrase, which revealed that it is the title of a popular Vince Gill song, and also a famous (apocryphal?) remark [...]
Jim Kunstler explores some of the cognitive dissonance I’ve also been noticing between the news and observable public behavior, and concludes:
… I will feel a little sorry for Mr. Obama if he gets to the White House. He’ll have to find a gentle way to tell the truth to the people who elected him, [...]
New in Wonderland keeps forgetting the key point:
We will never ‘understand’ the Holy, but in those moments we have the opportunity to encounter it directly, usually when it is picking up the pieces of the mess we have made of something that seemed important.
Only every day, really!
I was following an expensive German sedan in the left lane of the freeway today, and for about ten miles he slowed down and sped up in a most unpredictable and annoying way. Finally I contrived to pass him, and noted that he was text messaging as he drove. Perhaps this is common [...]
