Archive for November, 2008
Make It Stop
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, [Read More]
That Quantum Of Solace There
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!‘s Peter Sagel explains that the new James Bond movie got its odd title from a fan contest, won by Sarah Palin. [Read More]
Barack Obama To Bring Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco Values To Mainstream America
(#11 in series of posts of pics from my California trip) I am afraid Americans are going to wish they had listened to Sarah Palin and the dire warnings of Real Americans like Tito the Builder. This is what I saw when I was in San Francisco last August—a [Read More]
Kidney Stones, Moles, and Kittens, Oh, My!
Flashback to last February’s Adventures With Kidney Stones… So I was basically in bed with this horrible pain, because I had this massive kidney stone stuck in me that wasn’t going to pass, and it was shutting down one of my kidneys completely. Out of the [Read More]
Absence Of Joy
Here’s the exercise: I take a personal journal writing written sometime in the past…let’s say the past eight years…and I publish it here. I blur out a few specifics so as to avoid any potential awkwardness. The “fun” in this little [Read More]
Memo To One-Issue Pro-Life McCain/Palin Voters
You wanted to give the nuclear codes to someone who thought that Africa was a country and could not name the three countries that compose North America. Just an FYI. [Read More]
23 Hours Later: No Obama Love From Fox News
Just scanned the front pages of some major news organizations: CNN shows how African-Americans are inspired by Obama’s win. MSNBC pictures a President-elect in command, but asks the tough question of how he’ll confront America’s tough challenges. BBC News [Read More]
Toastie Flashback: July 27, 2004
Wow. Clinton was awesome last night speaking to Democrats, but Obama was brilliant in speaking to all Americans. I’m not a positive person for the most part, and it takes a lot for a positive message to overcome my cynicism of the syrupy and the cliched. I loved his [Read More]
