I complain that "Facebook and Twitter have killed the blogs" and that nobody posts here anymore, but I don't post here anymore either.  Not that I was ever a big poster.  My first livejournal post was a sheepish acknowledgement that I couldn't complain that my wife never posted if I didn't post anything myself ( Read more... )

OK, not every Catholic clergyman was a rapist.  But with the Pope personally implicated in three of the cover-ups, there's severe rot at the center of the edifice.  Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Yet one leader in today's world is given power greater than that of most kings in history.

( From Chris Clarke )

From LILY COYLE, MINNEAPOLIS
"Dear Pat Robertson ( Read more... )

"[Obama] reminds me of a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six simultaneous games. But he hasn't completed a single game and I'd like to see him finish one," - Henry Kissinger.

"This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent ( Read more... )

An online friend received this with some other samples.

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I'm a huge supporter of Obama, but this prize was poorly chosen.  Nobel prizes aren't awarded on who you are, but what you've done.  And winning an American election on whatever grounds isn't enough for a Nobel Prize.

One speech engaged Iran and may have affected that election.  Not enough effect yet. He's promised to close Guantanamo.  But he hasn ( Read more... )

I have three watches, and which one I grab for a particular day is semi-random.   Today I got the gold-faced one for the first time in a few months.  Partway through the morning, I realized that we got it for my father's 70th birthday in August 1989.  So this watch still sees regular use after more than twenty years.  So I started musing about old ( Read more... )

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