Category: navel gazing

One of the things about being a pundit-type blogger (rather than the livejournal type, you know) is that I feel it incumbent upon me to live up to stereotype, that is, to respond to the latest news story. In this…

Well, and it looks like it isn’t Donald Rumsfeld who is being rewarded for incompetence. And, I mean, clearly Condoleezza Rice has tremendous experience in diplomacy. Or at least as much as Colin Powell had. The good news is that…

Bar-ry! Bar-ry! Bar-ry! We’re not worthy! That is all. Thank you,-Vardibidian….

So, Secretary Powell is out. He wasn’t a very good Secretary of State, but then it would have been surprising, given his history and the circumstances, if he had been. The Cabinet shake-up is more or less usual on heading…

Well, and the rules of the Oscars Game are up, and there’s less than two weeks to decide to play. The more the merrier, at least a lot more than we currently have, so belly up to the bar, boys…

Anonymous, WWI era I don’t want to join the Army, I don’t want to be a man of war I just wanna hang around Picadilly underground, Living off the earnings of a h-h-h-high born lady. I don’t need no foreign…

Survivors, by Siegfried Sassoon No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again,’ — These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk. They’ll soon…

T’other day, Your Humble Blogger was listening to the local NPR call-in show, and they were, of course, talking about how the Democrats failed to win the election, and what they could do to improve next time. And a fellow…

via Heaneyland, the Flabbergasted Eagle. Now that’s patriotism. Thank you,-Vardibidian….

By the way, I have in fact been musing over some issues that came to the fore in the election, about reds and blues and purples, about city folk and country folk, about pluralism and fundamentalism, monism and dualism essentialism…