Even though I’m pretty liberal and am totally willing to believe conspiracy- theory television shows about shadowy men running shadow governments while their puppets dance and sing to a stupefied America, I don’t actually believe it. There’s a line — thin though it may be– between being willing and wanting to believe and actually thinking [...]
Entries Tagged as 'it’s evening in America'
Oh America, how I cringe for thee
April 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics
I haven’t been writing about the torture stuff because I’m not sure what to say that can’t be summed up pretty easily. Torture is bad. We should not do it. We should not allow our leaders to condone it or come up with justifications for it.
But two things I ran into today [...]
Drive-by blogging: death of a city
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Urban living
Want to know how a city dies? It dies empty and beautiful — haunted by ghosts.
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They will break your heart, these politicians
February 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Here’s what we need to be careful of with a Democrat in the White House: if we didn’t like it when G.W. Bush did it, then we shouldn’t like it when Barak Obama does it.
Case in point: the “state-secret” defense that the Bush White House used as the reason for denying victims of US torture [...]
I have seen the promised land and it has a Five Guys
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Whatever ...
The rhetoric is just going to keep heating up here. Well, not here literally. I mean, DC isn’t suddenly going to give their electoral votes to McCain. I meant here figuratively and generally. Like on TV and in those bitter, religion-clinging counties.
Anyhoo.
My point is that there’s a lot of words flying around like America and [...]
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Good Book: Last Night at the Lobster
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · What's on my bookshelf
Why I picked it up: Christmas gift for my sister who worked at a Red Lobster for a couple of years. But it looked so good that I picked up a copy for myself as well.
Elegiac. Here’s the Webster definition: expressing sorrow often for something now past. It’s actually a beautiful word full of melancholy [...]