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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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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With considerable pleasure, I am discovering a rebirth of interest in thinker and writer Lionel Trilling, the Columbia prof who actually thought we had an obligation to be intelligent.
If you do not remember this man, listen to the video below.

A recent issue of Newsweek included a terrific look back at the 50’s liberalism of which [...]

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If the prognosticators are even close to being right, pretty soon polar bears and many, many other kinds of wildlife will leave the world entirely to those responsible for the vanishing ice, the polluted rivers, the poachers and hunters, and the varied threats that come with the incursion of people into environments that were once [...]

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The woman is a ninny.

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