Waiting for McCain/Palin This is a nice companion to the Michael Gerson piece I had linked to here and tagged at 2:40 PM. It’s Tracey at Pale Page, offering an account – with pictures – of one of her cousins making it to a McCain/Palin rally with her four-year old daughter, who has Down Syndrome. It’s lovely and touching and you’ll want to read it all, but here is an excerpt: As the rally was breaking up, John McCain made... Read more
This is what I call good-old fashioned American entrepreneurialism, and it is timely and subtle at the same time: The McCain/Palin ’08 Lipstick Kiss Button! There is a Bumper Sticker, too! I’m going to order a dozen, because that’s just cute and fun. I’m going to keep this at top, and the “running update” begins below, latest stuff first! Read this: Just read it – it’s wonderful. (H/T) The baby heard the thud, got scared, turned her head quickly into... Read more
graphic H/T One myth about Dubya is that he waved “hello” to Stevie Wonder. Doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not – it’s part of the narrative, now – but here is video of Joe Biden saying to a State Senator in a wheelchair: “stand up Chuck, let ’em see ya.” Hey, that’s an innocent mistake, and the senator, Chuck Graham, was cool about it and Biden appropriately apologetic and decent about it. Also, you sort of have to love... Read more
Graphic via Beldar My latest piece for Pajamas Media, entitled, Psychologists Want to Purge Your Brain of Un-Green Thoughts, is up and running; it looks at how the anti-establishment renegades of 1968 now want you, forty years on, to fall in line and conform to the “environmental crisis” mentality they’ve been so aggressively pushing: Forty years after enlightened baby boomers and academics decried conformity and told the world to ignore “the establishment,” to not kowtow to “the man,” to “rap... Read more
A few days ago I wrote that the ’08 election may come down to authenticity. I was specifically talking about authentic service and volunteerism exemplified by John McCain and Sarah Palin in their lives versus the troubling and compulsory “volunteerism” being put forth by the Obama campaign, but the piece touched on the authenticity of the candidates as well. We tend to think of authenticity as having a positive value. But yesterday Kate at Small Dead Animals flew an email... Read more
Public Chapel, Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary We’ve been keeping track of many religious orders that are lately bursting with new postulants and novices. One of our favorite communities, the Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ, have been investing new novices with some heartening regularity. Their blog, Moniales, is an inspiring, enlightening and often fun window into their monastic life, making it more understandable and less strange to people, while also helping young women discern if such a life... Read more
Speaking at his big-buck-a-plate fundraiser, Sen. Barack Obama, aka The Candidate Sometimes Referred to As “Candace” laid down some more of his suffering hard times and cried “waaaaaaah.” “I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife – I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second,” he said. “I... Read more
As Gov Sarah Palin is getting an actual fair shake in a NY Times piece on how she handles governing and motherhood (she seems to do it with aplomb), the Democrats have to deal with quotes like this from Gov. Palin, one which illustrates how far from reality are the media-caricatures of longstanding: She assured [her staff] she would not take much time off: she had returned to work the day after giving birth to Piper. “To any critics who... Read more
…beginning, apparently, at MSNBC. After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage. He made some changes that would never do From now on I’m going to make some changes too For there’s... Read more
So, it appears that “The One” is going begging to Don Clinton, hat in hand: The One strides in confidently and extends his hand to The Don. The Don looks up, contemplates the proffered hand, and watches The One’s smile fade as it is not shaken. The One retracts his hand, and tilts his head, comprehending, but not liking it. Still, he needs this meeting. Don Clinton nods slightly, and with a silky hand motions The One to take a... Read more
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