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I believe the news was posted yesterday on Pols.  I did catch it somewhere surfing around, watching the horror playing out in desperation in the Gulf, and the spectacle of another self-destructing state-wide GOP campaign, and work. But the ‘waterlord of the American West’ and father of the Glen Canyon Dam (and many, many others), […]

I rememember the first time I cried after watching a political speech on C-Span. My favorite time of year is May, when C-Span is filled with college commencement speeches made by politicians and pundits. I arm myself with a box of kleenex and a Webster’s dictionary, and settle in for a couple of weeks, at […]

“When we’re in Hue City, it’s like a war. Y’know, like what I thought a war was supposed to be like. There’s the enemy, kill ’em.” Private Cowboy, Full Metal Jacket I’ve been following the buildup to this operation for about the last 4 weeks. Part of it has been a debate I’ve had with […]

In 2007-2008 conservative “establishment” Democrats, plus feminists, had a clear choice: Hillary. Self-proclaimed progressives could hear echoes of their sentiments in John Edwards. And then there was Barack Obama, inspirational speaker without peer. Yes, he seemed more conservative than Edwards, but perhaps that was just caution, an appeal to the broad middle of an electorate […]

How often do we get a blue moon’s ghostly light bridging two decades? Does it foretell lighter days and shorter nights to come, or is it merely an illusion that flipping a calendar portends a change? Like Janus, I see a bit of both: –By March, “health care reform” will be a dim memory. No […]