The personal is political

Since I had some time this morning before plunging into my day, I took the Girls voting with me. I explained to them the difference between a primary and a general election. I heard that Daughter #1 and her friends had been discussing politics. All of her friends would vote for John McCain, apparently because [...]

Kids are da kwayziest peoples

I forgot the most important part of the earthquake story this morning.
So, it’s about 7:00 am and Daughter #2 is up and about in the kitchen. The following conversation ensues:
Me: Hey, D#2 did you feel the earthquake last night?
D#2: [leaves the kitchen shrugging her left shoulder "whatever", then turns around and says] “Maybe the sun [...]

Shimmy-shake

I was going to say unwarrantedly nasty things about the people up in Kokomo who mistook the sonic boom of an F-16 fighter for a meteor shower. Last night, on the 102nd anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, we felt a tremor here in the heartland. According to reports, it ws a 5.4 quake centered [...]

Talking of Michelangelo

Piggybacking on Jeanne’s and Lemming’s posts about National Pottery Poetry Month, I must add my favorite poem that I first heard in the last year or so. I heard Stephen Breyer say it on C-SPAN (In fact, I blogged about it before) and I was just enchanted. It is by the Canadian poet Tom Wayman, [...]

Grr/Sob

I’ll admit that I did cry a little when I was flipping the channels this weekend and so when I happened across the two Democratic presidential candidates at this “Compassion Forum” in Pennsylvania. I could care less about the religious beliefs of my President — being a born-again doesn’t protect you from being a bad [...]

Driving concerns

It is one of the tribulations of being Daughter #2 that many more blog posts here are about her older sister. Well, D#2 gets pride of place this morning. So, we’re all getting ready for school, and I’m trying to hurry the girls along a bit:
C’mon girls, we need to get out of here so [...]

The Jarrow of the Oughts

OK, I haven’t thought this topic the whole way through, but after listening to this This American Life episode (recommended by Reid), I have this thought to share with the assembled:
The advent of the Internet and the globalization of the attendant technology does not contribute to a more-informed populace. In fact, it ghettoizes information to [...]