They say you can live without most everything, except hope. Of course that’s nonsense – oxygen is quite useful, for example. And there’s food, water and shelter. But that isn’t the idea. Without hope that things will work out, somehow, you end up in existential despair – as Langston Hughes noted in that famous poem about dreams deferred , you shrivel up, or you explode. Sure, you can live without hope, but that’s not living – what’s the point?
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In hard times, when everything seems hopeless, you can make sitting on your forever-deferred dreams, however mundane they are, into something useful, like art – become a blues singer, start an angry post-punk wall-of-noise band, or write those novels Camus never got around to scribbling out in his room at the Madison on Boulevard St-Germain, overlooking the centuries-old church that holds the bones of Descartes. But that takes talent, or at least a good agent, and most people who decide to go that ...
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Filed under: Hillary Clinton , Democrats , Ron Paul , 2008 President , Humor , Bill Clinton Don’t know how I missed this one. Two weeks after Election Day, Duval County, Fla, released its write-in voting results. Hillary Clinton was the clear winner. From News4Jax.com :Some voters expecting to vote for Barack Obama or John McCain two weeks ago were surprised to see 11 other names on the ballot. But 736 voters in Duval County weren’t happy with any of the choices and wrote i... more
The fallout continues from Sarah Palin claiming she opposed that famous bright to nowhere, and that new McCain-Palin ad – the Original Mavericks – where the claim is that “she stopped the bridge to nowhere.” She did, all by herself, bravely facing down the world?
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That is just not so. See Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo with Lying Sarah Watch , a careful analysis, summarized by Michael Crowley here :
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If politicians know one thing, they know this. Explaining things that you yourself don’t understand can get you in trouble – explaining economics, for example.
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People listen politely, then someone in the back, sensing that they’re hearing nonsense, smiles. You catch that smile in the corner of your eye, and plow on, trying to be forceful and compelling, as best you can. It might have been nothing – someone thinking of their child. But then you hear a cough in a far corn... more
It was about ten years ago, on the third or fourth solo trip to Paris to kick around for a few weeks and feel more at home than is possible here in Hollywood – where no one ever feels at home – that something seemed strange. Don’t concern yourself why a twice-divorced systems guy raised in Pittsburgh, educated in Ohio and North Carolina and living in Hollywood, always felt that that first afternoon in Paris, fresh off the overnight non-stop from Los Angeles and sipping cognac at dus... more
Not to Worry From: justabovesunset.wordpress.com Post Date: 2008-09-05 22:18:46
Friday, September 5, thing were supposed to settle down. The political conventions were finally over, capped by John McCain’s workmanlike speech – long on character (he has it, he says), and short on the issues. In fact the issues didn’t come up much at all – McCain politely nodded to them as they passed by. His audience didn’t care, and those not at the convention, watching on television, were not impressed.
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Here, from Steve Benen, is a roundup :
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