Poetry Friday: The Bowerbirds by Dana Goodyear
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in poetry friday | No Comments »http://wellreadchild.blogspot.com/2008/02/poetry-friday-bowerbirds-by-dana.htmlSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Poetry Friday: The Bowerbirds by Dana Goodyear", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/poetry-friday/poetry-friday-the-bowerbirds-by-dana-goodyear/" });
Political Wankery (the latest debate and the “Oh SNAP!” nihilism of our public discourse)
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Clinton, Obama, Of Interest | 2 Comments »While Anderson Cooper does his vacuous deer-in-headlights-who-cares-about-people routine, Keith Olbermann (who's show Countdown is actually very good), approaches yesterday's debate with the same dreary cynicism as his mischievous mentor, the meat-headed Tom Sawyer of politics, Chris Mathews. The debate was ...
Hillary Clinton’s Rhetorical Offenses (and why words matter)
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama | 6 Comments »To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was ...
Poetry Friday: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in poetry friday | No Comments »Here's my post at The Well-Read ChildSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Poetry Friday: The Voice by Thomas Hardy", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/poetry-friday/poetry-friday-the-voice-by-thomas-hardy/" });
Black Candidates are Being Elected by White Southerners
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Obama | No Comments »I often argue to friends who say that a black man can't be president in America that American race relations are more complicated than the usual stereotypes make them out to be. In Alabama no less: Yet there are parallels. The ...
Hillary is With It
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Hillary | No Comments »I watch these about seven times a day: [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=HxtN0u23Tdc] [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=IA8Wy51Ionk] [youtube=http://youtube.com/w/?v=5FvyGydc8no]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hillary is With It", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/hillary/hillary-is-with-it/" });
Obama’s Legislative Accomplishments–and how this experience helped him win
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Obama | 3 Comments »Chris Mathews embarrassed an Obama supporter last night by asking him to name Obama's legislative accomplishments--something the supporter couldn't do. Besides the mean-spiritedness of the ambush (Mathews after all new that the average supporter, even--or perhaps especially--a Texas state senator--would ...
