"We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them."
-Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude.
Leaving soon. I'm excited and nervous about the adventure to come. I'm both sad to leave the people in my life here, and extremely happy to have so many good people and so much love in my life.
Ah well, on to the next crazy venture...
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
mean daddy works for MSNBC. horray!
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He raises an interesting point. Repubs do appear to be, on one hand, claiming all government intervention is evil while on the other, telling people over 65 that their beloved government run health care (aka Medicare) will be jeopardized. This would seem to negate the "creeping socialism" argument if this issue hadn't already become an overly ideological shouting match.
Still, no one respects the left for just sitting there politely while being screamed at. The right is content to call that a victory, so its good to see someone stepping up their game a notch.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
When policy is beside the point. in our national debate on policy. wtf?
Rob Reich seems to think that the town hall zealots could be stopped with solid facts and a clearer political message from the whitehouse.
I'm not sure if hes looking at the same footage of this as I have been, but from what I'm seeing reason has almost nothing to do with this. Mass hysteria seldom has a basis in fact. (Trust me, I've been to Mardi Gras. I have literally seen grown men and women fight each other for strings of plastic beads that they will not even want the next day. Man is not generally as rational as we would like to believe.)
I'm not sure how this gets fixed exactly. Maybe Obama can talk some sense into at least some of these folks. But unless the Palin/Limbaugh/Beck/Grassley team stops stoking these fires, and unless the rest of the media stops amplifying their lies in their 24/7 echo chaimber under the guise of "fair and balanced reporting" (I'm looking at you, CNN) then I'm not sure what the rest of us can do.
I'm not sure if hes looking at the same footage of this as I have been, but from what I'm seeing reason has almost nothing to do with this. Mass hysteria seldom has a basis in fact. (Trust me, I've been to Mardi Gras. I have literally seen grown men and women fight each other for strings of plastic beads that they will not even want the next day. Man is not generally as rational as we would like to believe.)
I'm not sure how this gets fixed exactly. Maybe Obama can talk some sense into at least some of these folks. But unless the Palin/Limbaugh/Beck/Grassley team stops stoking these fires, and unless the rest of the media stops amplifying their lies in their 24/7 echo chaimber under the guise of "fair and balanced reporting" (I'm looking at you, CNN) then I'm not sure what the rest of us can do.
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