Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Like millions of others around the world, I was glued to the television for a couple hours this morning. And while I may have spared myself from crying like a little girl, it didn’t stop the tears coming from this forty-eight year-old man. I feel a lot of things. Like now our country can start pulling away from the precipice. I feel an [...]
What an incredible scene. I think toughest part of Tuesday night might have been trying not to cry like a little girl in front of my grown up kids. There’s a lot that has been and will be written about our election of Barack Obama, but in my mind the thing I may remember most is seeing the couple hundred thousand [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Vote already. Please. I’ve got the day off to see how things go and the suspense is killing me. It’s never over ’til it’s over, no matter how upbeat the forecast looks.
Another note from Europe. So my wife and I picked up our rental in Tours, France. I sprung for an upgrade because, well, it’s our Big Trip and a Big Anniversary to boot. We drove off in a BMW 118d. Five-door hatchback, 2.0 liter turbo-diesel, six-speed, road-hugging-fun-car-to-drive. We went all over hell’s half-acre chasing chateaux during three days in [...]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Yesterday, Barack Obama delivered what some people called the most important speech on race in over forty years. Yet some of these same coneheads prognosticated that his poll numbers may go down as a result. Wait a minute. Obama can pack more thought into one sentence than our current president has in the last seven years [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Of course I’ve been throwing some paint around. But in the meantime, I came across a short article by Barbara Ehrenreich entitled “The Fall of the American Consumer”. Only slightly tongue-in-cheek, you almost wish it was more so. Because it only hints at the double-bind we’ve gotten ourselves into: we need to keep buying junk to [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
…as in, I really, really hope that one year from now we don’t all look in the mirror and wonder if we got caught up in a Barack Obama cult of personality. I hope it’s not. I sent some money to the guy. I hope he gets elected. I hope that even one quarter of his ideas get implemented. [...]