buy accutane steroids I’ve read a few bloggers who complain that Obama’s relative silence is “cowardly” or that there is too much emphasis on “realpolitik” and he’s just waiting to see who triumphs and then he’ll embrace him. Nonsense. This man knows that he is not the story here. And what’s more, he doesn’t need to say anything […]
Category Archives: Political Comments
Obama’s Refusal to Grandstand.
16-Jun-09Iranian News.
15-Jun-09I come down from my cabin to internet life here in the valley to find some real world news since last I checked, coming from Iran. A stolen election – I see no need to discuss this overmuch, it’s clearly something the Iranian government would willingly do, and there’s evidence enough already – and hundreds […]
Quote for the Day.
15-Jun-09“Man is not the enemy of man but by the medium of a false system of government.” – Thomas Paine Our prayers are with all those who do not wish to be governed by fear.
Reaction to the Obama Cairo Speech.
05-Jun-09I sat myself down in Claryville on a cloudy, cold summer afternoon and watched the Obama Cairo speech beginning to end, and then read some of the internet reactions. My short reaction is that Obama is a poster child for the importance of personal spiritual development. For the most part, the existence of these spiritually […]
Obama’s Cairo Speech.
05-Jun-09I thought about this a lot as I heard older folk talk about the presidential campaign: what a gift the internet is, to deliver us from what used to be called journalism. Here’s the full video and transcript of the Obama speech in Cairo. It’s quite extraordinary if looked at in full. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/02/us/politics/200900604_OBAMA_CAIRO.html
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Andrew Sullivan and abortion.
03-Jun-09The murder of Dr. Tiller has produced a fresh investigation of abortion. Andrew Sullivan has posted numerous personal stories about abortions. They are all worth reading and pondering. It’s hard not to feel something like the Obama position: abortion is a moral issue, a deeply moral issue, like the way you use your body sexually, […]
Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke.
03-Jun-09“Mean old Levee taught me to weep and moan.” – old Blues song. If you want to get on the emotional inside of the experience of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans – and hence to feel the depth of America’s racial and economic segregation – then you would do well to watch Spike Lee’s documentary […]
Look at all the new material Oliver Stone could have had if he had just waited. It really is astounding how it all comes together. I’ll let Andrew Sullivan do the talking: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/and-where-the-whole-thing-becomes-a-movie-.html#more
Playing Dodgeball for Real.
22-Jun-09look at this website God, these videos from Iran are just astonishing. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/the-moment-they-ran.html And if you haven’t been reading Andrew Sullivan’s coverage of the Revolution in Iran, you really need to start.