Bill Clinton showed last night why he is the greatest communicator of his generation, and perhaps the last 60 years ( Read more... )

She's pushing ninety and looks increasingly frail but she has more guts and more brains than anyone in the White House press corps (see below ( Read more... )

I can't believe the US Senate's time is being wasted on an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage.

Bush, Cheney, Rick Santorum, and the supporters of this amendment are un-American and un-Christian.

I can't believe they are trying to write bigotry into the Constitution.

Interesting study showing that grains were part of the diet of settlers at the Ohalo II site about 23,000 years ago- about 10,000 years earlier than the previous earliest evidence of agriculture.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5263435/

I remain impressed with Nellie McKay-- my favorite new artist of 2004. Reviews I've seen of Nellie often describe her as X crossed with Y where X and Y include Doris Day, Randy Newman, Bette Mildler, Norah Jones, Tom Lehrer, and Eminen. I sometimes wonder if she is the secret love child that Elvis Costello and Diana Krall had twenty years ago.

The ( Read more... )

Whatever happened to the religious left?

I wonder about that often when I think of Dar's "I had no right" about the Berrigan brothers and what they did back in the 1960s, protesting the Vietnam war and championing justice. They were compelled to do the things they did (including burning draft files using homemade naplam) due to the love of their ( Read more... )

I actually caught a little of the Reagan burial-- I just saw Patti's and Ron's Jr's speeches and then turned it off when Danforth (who I will never forget for giving us Clarence Thomas) spoke.

I remember when Ron Jr. hosted SNL and did a takeoff on "Risky Business". He certainly grown since.

He didn't really look like his father but he sure ( Read more... )

We lost one of the greats this week in Ray Charles. What an amazing life and career- interestingly, Ray had lost his sight in early childhood (from something like glacoma). He said that he still remembered colors and his mama. He also said that blindness neither helped him or hindered him when it came to music - he was playing before he was blind ( Read more... )

Amazing story about the language skills of Rico, a 9 year old border collie ( Read more... )

A candidate is running for high office and there are unfounded rumors circling around that this candidate had received treatment for depression. Further suppose that when asked about these rumors, a political rival of this candidate says "I'm not going to pick on an invalid ( Read more... )