We just watched the last episode of John Adams. I got the DVD from the library and we went through it in one week, all seven installments. I have to admit, the last episode brought tears. The partnership between John … Continue reading
G.O.P. Chairman Michael Steele made a few remarkably in-your-face comments recently about the health care debate. Here, in his own words, is pretty much where he thinks the nation is going, why it shouldn’t go there, and what the Republican … Continue reading
Just a couple of what seem to me like obvious questions. (I know, I’ve been writing a bit on the health care debate, and I’ll try to do some other things after this, don’t want to bore anyone, especially myself.) … Continue reading
I like Barney Frank. He says what he feels, usually in a way that makes his argument better. But it’s almost a no-brainer to do a comeback on the idiocy with which he was faced in Dartmouth, Massachussetts this past … Continue reading
One of these days I will get the Art section of this website straightened out. If you go there now, you’ll find a lot of photographs, but several of them when clicked on expand to huge size and you only … Continue reading
Listening to the harangue over the health care reform squabble, I can’t help thinking—even I saw a few episodes of West Wing, I who do not watch television, so of all the Lefties out there who probably hung on every … Continue reading
I found a very old packet of photographs the other day, going all the way back to nearly the beginning. They were snapshots taken the day of my Christening. This would have been, according to the date written in the … Continue reading
Now for something less sturm und drang (which is ironic, since just now it is thundering and raining outside) and more reflective. We’re still attending the Dante reading group. Yesterday we did Canto XIV of Purgatorio and indulged some lively … Continue reading
George Sodini never got it right, apparently. He posted a kind of diary entry on the web explaining how not right he got it. “The biggest problem of all is not having relationships or friends,” he wrote. According to his … Continue reading