Choosing Media Sources

  I keep seeing people on the Kool-aid blogs get their knickers twisted because a negative story about Obama comes from an allegedly ”right-wing” source.  If someone here refers to such a story (even if it was done to support a minor point or something trivial like the weather) the PUMAS-obsessed blogstalkers freak-out and say something like “ZOMG!  [...]

BACK IN THE DAY….

When nuns wore habits and no child went home complaining to the folks that “Sister does not like me” as an excuse for misbehavior, I was schooled for 12 years by a group of women who were making every attempt to “save my soul”. Their methods varied by degree but their collective thinking did not. [...]

Read any good books lately?: Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies

I bought this book based on a review by Maureen Corrigan on Fresh Air a couple of weeks ago. For what it’s worth, Maureen was wrong about her review in many respects but she’s right about its readability. I can’t put it down. Happens Every Day is a memoir by Isabel Gillies of the time [...]

Saturday: Beautiful Things

Yesterday on my way to the fitness center, I passed under the branches of some large cherry trees at my worksite and noticed that they are starting to get buds on them. The transition from winter to spring has been slower than normal in NJ this year, making me momentarily question the conventional wisdom about [...]

A Song About My Peeps

Today’s lunatic fringe is tomorrow’s mainstream. This is an open thread.