Oh America, you have almost forgotten now but once upon a time, long, long ago — 101 days to be exact — we were in pain, despairing and exhausted, fearful that our long national nightmare was never going to end; sure that, in some basement somewhere, an old man was chaining himself to a radiator [...]
Entries Tagged as 'it’s morning in America'
I’d like to talk to you about your son’s progress, America.
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
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Touch me once, touch me twice, your majesty
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Whatever ...
Turns out that the Queen of England is like all of the rest of us … totally feeling the Michelle Obama love.
America’s First Lady Michelle Obama broke royal protocol during a reception at Buckingham Palace when she placed her arm around the Queen. But rather than take offence, Her Majesty took the unusual step of [...]
Freeing the Freedom of Information Act
January 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Politics, Whatever ...
Maybe because I’m surrounded by journalists 5 days a week, 11 hours a day (it’s been really insane at work) or maybe because I’m a lefty and all into that open access stuff but out of all the things the President Obama (someday writing that will get old but not yet, not at all yet) [...]
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The past is but a distant memory
January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I will be hard on our new President. I will not just blindly accept that everything he does is good. I will try to not be the White House Press Corps. But this new guy i’s making it very, very difficult to find things to criticize these first few days. Let’s see:
Get rid of [...]
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5 observations from a pretty damn good day for America
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments · 5 things, Politics
I would have live-blogged the inaugeration but apparently everyone in America was watching it on TV today so there didn’t seem to be much point. But here were the things that caught my eye:
Aretha Franklin kicked ass. As did Yo-Yo Ma and Izhak Perlman and those other two. Nicely multi-cultural too in a nice, natural, [...]
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The day before the rest of our lives
January 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
I’m really happy that Barak Obama is going to become President tomorrow. Really, I am. But after at the end of a long weekend (with another long day to go for much of DC) that has been nothing but Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. (thanks Oprah), I’m starting to feel a little cynical.
It’s a [...]
So we’re having a little get-together next month
December 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics, Urban living
My town is throwing a party. We have these new people moving in and we want to welcome them to the neighborhood. We do this fairly often; we had one about 4 years ago but (confession time) we didn’t really like the guy and he wasn’t moving in again, just renewing his lease, so the [...]