Puffin’s Place

Remember the old story about the eager boy scout who drags the old lady across the street in his frenzy to do a good deed?
I’m thinking these days that the US might want to be a better friend to other countries than insisting on being the leader of the free world.”
The thought came to me [...]

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Just heard Elizabeth Dole’s ad calling her competition “godless.” I am a North Carolinian, and Elizabeth Dole is beyond a cipher. She is something like 93rd on the list of competent senators. She is the most empty of the “southern woman” stereotypes, and except for the raised brake light in cars from long ago [...]

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These days, I am so hyper about the election and fear that Obama will not win thanks to last-minute voter maneuvers by the Repubs–skilled after 8 years of it. Can not really gather a complete thought that is fresh. But must give a nod of regard and thanks to the Clintons for their support of [...]

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(With thanks to Beth Morgan for the heads-up.)

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Taking off my campaign buttons and lifting the baton for a moment, I must say that I am gobsmacked by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s recent removal of its music critic because that critic wrote some negative reviews of the orchestra leader, Franz Welser-Most. By relocating Donald Rosenberg, the Plain Dealer is working hard to re-define [...]

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Hot from hearing Palin’s response to a question from a 3rd grader on a CNN interview and learning that the duties of the veep include involvement in Congressional policy decisions, I open today’s Washington Post to learn that she thinks of herself as an intellectual:
In an interview with the intellectual’s bible, People Magazine, Palin notes:
“And [...]

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Turning from McCaintics to other alarums and scarums of the Bush II times, even drunks try to handcuff Karl Rove, and Keith O. explores a future Rove frogwalk:

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Haven’t written here for a bit because I have been paralyzed beyond nausea at the lies and wanton misinterpretations of McCain and Vampira, the droid of the north.
The thought that McCain is not even abashed at the baldness of his lies about Obama’s tax policies and all such is appalling.
No more for now.

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Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessnes, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
President 1831-1881

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I wonder if in 2006 when Senator McCain gave the keynote speech at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (the scandalous ACORN we have been hearing about) in Florida, he anticipated that a mere two years later, his party would characterize ACORN this way:
Sol Stern explains that Acorn is the key modern successor [...]

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