Puffin’s Place

I’ll be returning to this blog regularly very shortly, but did want to jump in for a couple of quick thoughts.
Reading Christpher Hitchens’ God is Not Great recently and want to share a delicious last line: “We have first to transcend our prehistory, and escape the gnarled hands which reach out to drag us back [...]

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Joe Lieberman has become a total bore in the past decade, but his behavior in this past campaign has been both laughable and frustrating. He trotted after McCain like an amiable puppy, willing to whisper the differences between Shia and Sunni and equally willing to villify Obama and inject scare tactics into a Republican campaign [...]

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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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