Displaying 4,171 To 4,200 Of 5,146 Comments Hi bito- yes, I have been reading it as they went along, and it’s really (amazingly) good. The new PBS series, God in America is just the opposite – all emphasis is given to conservative Christianity and not much else. I wrote a flaming letter to them saying I won’t watch OR promote it. They whimpered back that they had Jim Wallis on as a ‘progressive voice’ – he who is homophobic and anti-choice. He’s really good on economic issues. Period. However, I’m surprised the Center for American Progress did such a good job. They once wanted one of my articles, “Building a Moral Economy”, then butchered it in edit to corporate liberal pap. When I said it totally changed the meaning, they said I was “too controversial”. So imagine my surprise that they grew up! Thanks for the link, BW – I’d lost it. Much appreciated! » Posted By choicelady On October 13, 2010 @ 3:12 pm Hi TIAP- You are right up my alley! Or boulevard! I work for a large progressive faith organization that represents mainstream, progressive denominations (and a couple that are not) and here is what I belive – what we uphold as an organization: “I believe in live and let live and the idea that if I don » Posted By choicelady On October 13, 2010 @ 11:27 am Adventures in Being an Investigative Journalist, Part 1 Wow Pepe! Wonderful story about REAL journalism! You’re right – it’s digging, digging, digging. And it’s also about NOT getting sidetracked with meaningless baubles. I hereby nominate you for the Eldon Larkin Memorial Rainy North Woods Journalism award. If you’ve never read those delicious and wonderful mysteries by Vince Kohler, you should. Not that they’re in print any longer, but they are just exactly about YOU. Not the character, of course, but about his dedication to digging, digging, digging. As someone who believes in journalism, I thank you from the bottom of my reader’s heart. Sorry you were sent packing by an idiot editor. That’s why there is so much disintegration in all our public arenas – no one really cares about the real story. It’s only about the manufactured one that simply does not matter. Bengal tigers indeed. Thanks for a GREAT story about real journalism!!! I can hardly wait for part II!! » Posted By choicelady On October 12, 2010 @ 5:21 pm Wow – this is really a good analysis and also some insightful self analysis. First – I am sorry for your loss of a friend and the near loss of self through shared grief. That’s a lonely journey indeed. More analytically, I find myself drawn NOT to “The Secret” which, taken to its extremes makes the Jews responsible for the Holocaust, but to Henry James’ “Beast in the Jungle” short story. For those who never labored through it, it’s the story of a man who believed he was destined for such great things he never took advantage of what was to hand. He never married the woman he loved, took the job offered, or did anything since he had projected great wonders for himself. Something wonderful was waiting for him, he was sure of it. At his death he realized that the “beast in the jungle” was his failure to work for what he wanted and to pass all life by. The problem with ‘The Secret” and similar notions (Oprah – I’m talking to YOU) is there is rarely the recognition that there are people poised to tell you NO and that you can visualize success all you want, but if you don’t train and work for it, it’s just that – a vision. It all feeds into our sense of entitlement though. If I WANT it, car with the style, model, and gizmos (do we ever visualize a warranty?) then it WILL be mine because I deserve it. Just for visualizing. And why is so much of this about material success and rewards? Why don’t we visualize how we can improve the world around us, make it better, cause compassion for others, end violence, hunger, and poverty? And if we don’t, if it’s all about US, then where does concern for the common good fit in, if anywhere? This visualization is cousin to “reinventing” ourselves. As if we’re phony in the first place so we can be any phony we want. If I have a preincarnated essence, I will bet it’s nobody rich or famous, no one successful, no one you would ever have known. I am not possessed of Melinda Twelvetrees (Barbra fans will know this one) but probably am intimately connected to her scullery maid who had an attitude. Between the Religious Right on one hand who believe they are God’s chosen and the New Age on the less right, I’m worn out by all of this. Most of us put one foot in front of the other trying just to stay alive, work hard and well, and be good and caring people. And can someone tell me why that’s not enough? Just asking. » Posted By choicelady On October 12, 2010 @ 5:05 pm …or a bar. » Posted By choicelady On October 12, 2010 @ 4:48 pm The Power and Perils of the Almighty Metaphor Oh, sigh. It’s the same argument I had with Sam Harris. Yes – religious fundamentalists are dangerous, and there is a very similar mind set among them, never mind their views. From Mark Juergensmeyer’s “Terror in the Mind of God” to Jessica Stern’s “Terror in the Name of God” (you picking up a theme here?)many of us have known intellectually AND personally how similar the extremists are. That said – not all people of faith are idiots and extremists. Most folks, especially those in the mainstream and progressive Protestant denominations, believe in science, see faith as a moral guide based on thoughtful reflection and compassion, and find it a unifying force for building community. Yeah, yeah, Harris is now out to “prove” that science does all that, but I will say: Edward Teller, and tell me how to get around THAT conundrum of pure science as moral evil. People of faith were the backbone of ALL the nation’s progressive movements from ending the slave trade to abolition, women’s suffrage, ending child labor, promoting labor’s collective bargaining rights in unions, supporting civil rights and the farmworkers, to supporting women’s right to choose, and above all, ending war and torture. ALL the mainstream Protestant denominations have engaged with these issues. OK – some of them have a lot to answer for on Prohibition, but nobody’s perfect. Faith is a sense of wonder. Faith is a sense that it’s not all about you. Faith is a sense of obligation to restore paradise on earth. Faith is a sense of connection to all the world’s people. Faith is a valuation of human rights. We give thanks to God because we have limited language and because while most don’t know who or what God is, just that something is MORE than just us as isolated individuals, we know we are fortunate to have the blessings of earth, whether it’s just happenstance or not. Who can look at the gorgeous world around us and not feel gratitude that we are HERE? Some feel a more personal connection to The One, some feel connected to only other people and the energy of the whole – who cares? At the core difference lies a key factor – those of us in the faith community who believe in our connectional relationship to others are NOT motivated by personal salvation (and man was I peeved at Obama for pretending that’s an issue of concern in his denominational background – it is NOT.) There are two camps (broadly speaking) of faith vs. religion, of connectional links to all people vs. hyper individualism. Of following social justice teachings vs. pursuing salvation of the individual soul. It is the sense of links to the whole vs. utter preoccupation with the self. You can see it in the social policies of those who want to lift up their fellow humans and those who see the world as dog-eat-dog. If your personal salvation is YOUR responsibility, so are you income, home, kids, everything – government thus is evil for lifting up the “undeserving” – the “unsaved”. Hyperindividualism and fundamentalism go hand in hand. Social justice in the secular world goes hand in hand with the social justice persepective in Christ’s teachings (or Maimonides or Mohammed or Buddha.) It’s why, at the bottom of the day, I love two statements about all this: “Religion is for people who are afraid of hell. Faith is for those who have been there.” and “Lord, lead me into the presence of those searching for the truth, and deliver me from those who have found it.” We aren’t all the same just because we claim the same name. And please do NOT tar us with the same brush. Some of us are under siege from “them” in the fundamentalist camps. We don’t need our friends breathing down our necks, too. Thanks! » Posted By choicelady On October 4, 2010 @ 12:11 pm Democracy In The Twilight Zone Hi KQ – nice to see you! I do believe this is true, and the utter zealots have worked tirelessly since the Scopes trial to turn this into a nation of one view of Christianity coupled with liberty for – some. I don’t see too much evidence elsewhere, unless the missionaries of these zealots have been present, where such fervor abounds. I am really aware as a trained historian and sociologist that these movements and phenomena have existed in this country several times over without getting much hold on the nation. However, I think it’s never been as large before – not that the majority by any means are zealots but that coupled with the desire to have a life of non-commitment, of material gain, and of someone else solving all the problems, the indifference to Christian zealotry is growing as fast as the problem. People don’t see – won’t see – that their lives are being curtailed by these people who work hand in glove with the most heinous of corporate interests. Why do these two function together? They both rest on the premise of utterly personal gain (money and souls). Then they support each other:You Christians can harvest souls, and while you’re doing it, we’ll take all the money and give some back to you to keep harvesting souls while we take the material wealth without your saying a thing. Of course there is overlap – Pat Robertson has the largest diamond mine in the Congo and profits from enslaving people, creating the rape culture and wars fueled by blood diamonds so he can circle around and use his diamond wealth to proselytize and “save” the people he has victimized. Neat! I despair of this nation. Indifference and self interest are the dominant issues, and those with greed in their bellies seem too often to trump the honest citizens’ concerns. I’m sorry Questinia that you were so clear and they were so indifferent. Their greed and entrenched power outstripped your values. But if you have the stomach for it – keep at it. I do think good ultimately triumphs – but it’s sort of like water dripping on stone. Takes a lot of time. Thank you for trying so well and so hard! » Posted By choicelady On September 28, 2010 @ 7:31 pm Hi AdLib – this is very provocative indeed. It hits a core “value” of American history, and that is the rage to regulate someone ELSE. A kick-ass evangelical I know, Susan Pace Hamill (you can google her for some of her good writing on this) says America is a “low sacrifice society” in which all our “issues” are about controlling someone else’s behavior that we have found reprehensible. From same sex relations to abortion to temperance to Social Security, we find a way those issues appear to victimize us (through massively twisted logic) so we can dump controls on the people we hate. Race and poverty are two biggies – you’re poor because (you are lazy, you are inferior, you want me to support you, yadda yadda yadda) and you are inferior because you are (immigrant, Brown Black Asian Native) even if we won’t quite SAY that. So we have to clamp down on you. We say the President hates white people and that three stupid dudes outside a polling place in 2008 represent a national threat. We say that all immigrants are rip off artists living on welfare even as we say they are stealing our jobs. And we HAVE TO REGULATE THEM ALL. Regulating the “Other” is entirely the outcome of hyper individualism and breakdown of community. Today it’s fostered by hyper narcissism that permeates all sides. Unfortunately, regulating the REAL criminals and miscreants in our society rarely happens since they are the people we secretly want to be – the rich and famous. So we turn our eyes to our neighbors, figure out their ‘sins’ and focus on what, in the end, is simply cannibalism. We eat our own. We grew up in the Progressive Era and again in the Depression – but we don’t seem to be growing up now. Too easy with TV and the internet to find a new group every day to regulate. Much easier to be like Archie Bunker and bitch and moan about “them” than to figure out who is REALLY doing us harm. I am just waiting for the new temperance movement – might be abortion – that will end “Their” bad behavior and make the world perfect. We never REALLY seem to learn, do we? » Posted By choicelady On September 24, 2010 @ 10:10 am It Pays to Police Your Word Power Marion – thank you for watching this man closely and for showing him up to be what he really is – a cold blooded opportunist. His politics are as empty as the suit he wears. He is disgusting, but he is, I fear, representative of way too many so-called “intellectuals” of that same rootless but self centered base. They can call Obama useless and half assed because they have such a limited and intensely personal agenda NO one could ever live up to it. It is symptomatic of people I once dated who are of his ilk and his era who all whined they never could find a good mate – because they had no core, no center, no wants other than immediate gratification. They certainly had nothing to GIVE. What they want is a mate, a community, a job, a nation that is about THEM and them alone. Why does anyone listen to them? They’ll dump their fans in a nanosecond if said fan gives them any backtalk. Nope – Maher and his cronies such as Arianna live to be the center of attention, and they don’t really care from whom. They want their president to pay fealty to them, and they have no interest in supporting said president. They decidedly are NOT of the time when one could say, “ask not what your country can do for you…” because that IS what they want. It’s all about Bill, all about Arianna, all about Newt. The rest of us don’t matter. At one of the progressive in-gatherings in DC last year three hip, with it people sat down at a table I and another woman already occupied. They never made eye contact, never said hello, never even LOOKED at us. That is how inconsequential we were. I bet they love Bill and Arianna though… » Posted By choicelady On September 20, 2010 @ 8:24 pm CAUGHT ON TAPE: Tea Party Rally Turns on O’Donnell!!! Oh Patsy – I read that as “Karl Rove is still not CONVICTED. Wishful thinking… » Posted By choicelady On September 22, 2010 @ 3:40 pm OK – but I once met a man who called me a “bully” for simply disagreeing with him, who then said “In my life I’ve only met two people smarter than me.” (Should that not have been “smarter than I”?) I wanted to say, but forebore, that not everyone needs to be smarter in every thing, but I should hope his cardiologist knows waaaay more than he does about heart surgery! This rush to anti-intellectualism lives and breathes even among the educated. Or Edjamucated. Whatever. » Posted By choicelady On September 22, 2010 @ 3:39 pm LOL!!!! » Posted By choicelady On September 22, 2010 @ 3:33 pm The problem as I perceive it is that she was NOT practicing Wicca but Satanism, and that is an entirely different kettle of fish. Wicca is indeed, as MTW below says, totally inoffensive. Satanism is not. It’s nasty, and she dabbled in that in serious and significant ways. I am entirely of the opinion that whatever floats your boat spiritually is fine with me, with this ONE exception – if it lifts up anger and evil or does harm, then NO WAY. That, of course, allows me to put both Satanism AND pre-dispensational Dominionist Christianity into the same package since both think they have the right to kill people off. I frankly understand why she’d gravitate to this version of Christianity – it’s Satanism with a better PR rep. It worships evil and calls on the Dark Arts all in the name of Jesus but in fact is not OF Jesus in any way shape or form. Nice little segue for her to achieve some sort of respectability without fundamental change in her values. That, in my book, makes her very creepy. » Posted By choicelady On September 22, 2010 @ 3:32 pm Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 7: Historic Triangle Thank you, Khirad! I understand why you prefer Jamestown – it’s the real McCoy while Williamsburg is entirely a recreation. It’s built on real foundations, but it was the work of J.D. Rockefeller who did us a favor in rebuilding, but it will always have a sense of the phony. I haven’t been there since I was a young teen, and I loved it then, but I really do understand the difference. However, I also like Plimoth Plantation which is entirely recreated as well. But there’s nothing like the real, even when it’s just the remnants. I once was reading an early textile account book, c. 1815 and found a fingerprint. A fingerprint! I’ll never know whose it was, but it gave me chills and a real sense of continuity -his work and life surviving until it reached my eyes. Seeing all those foundations – someone walked there, lived there, worked there in the real time and place. The “fingerprints” of the building footprint. Can’t make it much better than that. Your photos are remarkable, and the trip is fantastic, and thank you for all you’ve shared with us. » Posted By choicelady On September 20, 2010 @ 8:10 pm I really hope this can be a counterpoint to the absolute insanity that occupies this nation. I realize that if “they” win in November, MY job is set for life since they aren’t likely to go away anytime soon, and people who are appalled by what this nation hath wrought will flock to us for some solace (presuming we aren’t rounded up and at Manzanar, not as tourists.) But I don’t want McCarthyism redux, thanks anyway. In the age of instant communication, they would do so much more damage than in the 50s, I can’t even wrap my mind around it all. I am SO appalled that Carl Paladino, surely one of the crassest, venal, and stupidest men of all time, has won the Republican nomination for governor of NY. Will that assure Cuomo? Who knows? GOTV was never EVER more important. I am about to give up hope, but I must say that this delightful rally and spoof has lifted my spirits. I just have one question – why does the pic of Jon Stewart make him look like Lawrence O’Donnell? If Stewart ever took himself that seriously, we are all in a world of hurt. I’m seriously thinking about going to DC for this. It would be worth it! » Posted By choicelady On September 18, 2010 @ 12:18 pm The Authenticated Planet Election News Escritoire I heard from Ohio this morning. Disgusting news that the Reep has a double digit lead over Strickland. The swing of voters back and forth is idiotic, and the lack of sense is horrifying. I do NOT see what Ohio gets from having Reeps in charge. They brought that state AND the nation down. Why did voters give THEM three decades but the Dems 18 months? It’s insane. There have been comments here that all it would take is to show the country another 2 years of a Reep Congress – but they did not throw the bums out after Newt shut down the nation back in the 90s. Noooo – we had another freaking DECADE of them. What’s the lure for Americans in having the Party of No and the Party of Wall Street, and God’s Own Party in power? We just keep harming ourselves with what – wallet envy? It’s insane. That’s the mendacity of “hope”. » Posted By choicelady On September 11, 2010 @ 5:38 pm Oh thank you, Questina! I am in tears at what you wrote! All the people, all the hope, all the care they had for one another and you had for them all. I was in Sacramento that day and had not, for the first time ever, turned on the news. I was in my car driving to an appointment at about 7 am our time when I turned on the radio to hear the news about the first tower. I was aghast – I thought it was the giving away of the building bombed in ’93, some horrible, inevitable structural fault not repaired. It took quite some time to realize that this was terrorism on a massive scale, the thing I have feared for most of my life, the thing I thought I’d never be strong enough to endure, the unthinkable that doesn’t happen here. Only now it had. What I recall was a day shifted into slow motion. I think that was NOT a fantasy but real – everyone around me was driving slowly. Very slowly. We were in shock. People were being courteous, careful, compassionate. That lasted for weeks, even in CA where it’s usually every person for him or herself. I was one of the first people to fly when flying was restored. It was terrifying. I was on an American Airlines flight, and virtually every passenger wore a small red, white, blue ribbon and said, quietly, to the flight attendants, how sorry we were for their losses. The flight crew was numb – and scared. None of us knew for sure that it was safe. At the layover in Chicago, there was a CNN news report of some incident overseas. The entire terminal quieted watching, waiting. There was a Sikh couple on our flight, he with a turban, and another white woman and I walked with them onto the plane to protect them from the fears of fellow passengers who were staring at them. I think the elderly couple were oblivious, but they may have been perfectly aware since most of the hate crimes after 9/11 had been directed against Sihks due to the turbans. When I arrive in Pittsburgh, we deplaned to a deserted terminal. It was a long walk through empty corridors – several of us were in tears. The silence was horrible. Q – your description of the young man who worked in Windows to the World is familiar. I’ve related to him since his story first appeared. I had been to WTTW twice, and I had, for whatever reason, nightmares about its falling as AdLib had felt. I dreamed it exploded, the floor fell, and then the tower went over. That was in 1994. I’d never gone back because of that dream. When the people above the plane strike fell, it was sickening beyond belief. All of it was, but especially that. I pray they passed out or had died from smoke before – but I think that’s not likely. I will always treasure the stories of human kindness and courage that emerge from that horrible day. Something so simple as the shoe store uptown that broke open its inventory to hand out sneakers to women running from the scene in high heels. How basic. How kind. Glenn Beck’s “September 12” movement is such a travesty. Yes we were good to one another, yes we were kind, yes we came together. But his hate and vitriol caused much of the Great Divide, and it is HE who did not learn the lessons of Sept. 12. Ques- thank you for sharing your extraordinary experience with us. We are glad you came through it intact. Thank you for your service and thank you for your courage. And I understand about the facial. Life affirming moments aren’t always sensible, but they ARE life affirming. » Posted By choicelady On September 9, 2010 @ 10:58 am Arizona Politics – A history of crazy Khirad – you are a fount of information. I never knew AZ had confederate ties. Explains quite a lot, doesn’t it? Thanks for reminding us of this! » Posted By choicelady On September 4, 2010 @ 7:20 am Why Republicans Will Lose By Winning Welcome Zoe_y – glad to have you on the Planet where the talk is fascinating and sometimes zany. Life is good here, all ideas are welcome, and now – so are you. » Posted By choicelady On September 7, 2010 @ 8:04 pm bito- I was told by a VERY good source, that he remains perhaps the scariest person running becausse of his lies about accepting integration. Quite recently he walked out of a meeting saying to an aide – “Great meeting. No C***s here.” (Reference to Black people, not women, but then what’s the diff? He probably disrespects both.) My one shining hope is that this nation has not often tolerated the chubby and mush-mouthed, so it’s not likely he will go very far, racism or no. Personally I don’t want him purged – I want him “outed” for his racism and disgusting attitudes. The MSM, including HuffPo, do NOT expose these people enough. » Posted By choicelady On September 5, 2010 @ 2:40 pm I fourth that! It’s how I feel, and having been hung out to dry by the RW more than once – and by so-called “progressives” who are just as nasty – I LOVE BEING ON THE PLANET where you don’t need a passport or even a visa. I’m home. » Posted By choicelady On September 1, 2010 @ 10:22 pm I heard a joke about related issues. A Catholic monk dug his way through the Dead Sea scrolls and other original documents. He emerged shaken and profoundly saddened. When a fellow friar asked what the monk had found, the monk replied: “All these years and we misread the texts. It’s not celibate. It’s CELEBRATE!” » Posted By choicelady On September 1, 2010 @ 12:16 pm Hi- this is God’s communications director. God’s on the phone, so he asked me to respond. The thing with the baby dashing is that it’s grounded in an old and outworn tribalism. God got tired of watching people bash each other (AND babies) and sent Jesus to shape us up. Jesus brought us the radical notion that we were in a common bond with one another, that we were equal, and that pure and non-judgmental love was possible. You think the current crop of people get that? Hah! They LOVE the tribalism since they see everything as a competition, Last Christian Standing. Well, God is saying to you all – that wasn’t the plan, that’s not the message, get over your rapacious and slavering hate and MOVE ON. If you have any questions, I’ll be glad to answer them now. » Posted By choicelady On September 1, 2010 @ 12:13 pm The White Wings of Icarus Fall Silent I totally agree and agree equally about the pure selfish instrumentalism of the establishment’s use of the Dominionists. I think, however, that the sheer cynicism of people such as Reagan should not blind us to his secret alliance with Dominionists – he loved Rushdoony (even though as an adulterer, he would be stoned in Rushdoony’s world) and that made Reagan’s own pastor very nervous. In the early Spring you all should look for a book by Leah Burton, “Palin’s America: God, Guns, and Greed”. It will be a blockbuster of expose on the degree of infiltration into our society of the Dominionists in politics. Leah has a blog, godsownparty.com that offers up quite a lot about these folks and their desire for global domination. (And how nice to be on The Planet where such cross reference is not banned! Thanks, AdLib!) » Posted By choicelady On August 27, 2010 @ 12:08 pm didenusa – I think you can find those two terms together in Corinthians. But I could be wrong. Marion this is a REAL eye-opener! I had no idea Breitbart had ties to Arianna. I know her RD (see above) conversion was deeply suspect – never saw how she got from closeted hubby to here, and obviously while she might NOT have passed “Go” she collected more than $200. I have seen her around town since the Park51 controversy, but not ON that issue in any way. What worries me is, as with the way the Dominionist extreme Christians are “steeplejacking” progressive and even just moderately liberal churches by sowing seeds of dissent over nothing, so I wonder – who are these people who keep claiming they represent “progressive” values. We’ve seen Bill Maher, now Arianna, who CLAIM to be liberal or progressive but aren’t. Arainna’s “solutions” all come from other people who’ve been working on them for decades. To wit – community banking. But when it comes to examining issues deeply she is missing in action. Headline after headline decries Obama’s “failures” such as the foreclosure assistance which asserted that the administration’s assistance programs CAUSE foreclosures. However, she must have left her blue pencil at home because in another section she had an article about two federal programs that have SAVED 70-85% of the applicants’ homes FROM foreclosure, and that totalled several MILLION families. So which IS it? I asked that question – and got obliterated as you might expect. Story after story is “Gawd – ain’t Obama AWFUL” and then the portent of doom predicted in the fevered headline never comes to pass. Some readers are complaining about the increasing sensationalism, but I see (and am allowed to post) fewer and fewer complaints against the Divine Ms. H. or any aspect of bad reporting. I do think in sum, HuffPo has been Breitbarted. So who IS Ms. H.???? Who is she REALLY? Inquiring minds want to know… I think we have a fifth column. And they scare the crap out of me because if I have to watch my left flank as well as my right, I’m going to get a crick in my neck. » Posted By choicelady On August 26, 2010 @ 9:12 pm Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 5: Charlottesville Hi Khirad – I’m just catching up and thank you so much for this! I was there about 4 years ago, starting in Gettysburg and working down to Appomattox. The area is simply beautiful. Well – if you discount the mall sprawl in Manassas… Monticello was breathtaking, and your photos brought back such GREAT memories. We drove the Blue Ridge highway, got a Southern dinner at the ONLY open restaurant, then totally missed the turnoff we wanted so drove a long way in the dark – very slowly trying to avoid the ubiquitous deer! Even in the dark it was something to experience. MUCH appreciate the stunning photography of your entire trip, and thank you! » Posted By choicelady On August 27, 2010 @ 1:22 pm A Common Sense Case for Prop 19 Next Tuesday my Board is deciding whether or not to support Prop. 19. We are a large – the largest in the nation – faith-grounded public policy organization representing 1.5 million members of the Protestant communities of faith. I suspect that a handful of our board members have been known to toke up now and then, but we also have concern for health, well being, etc. More important, we also have GOOD sense. Prohibition does not work – that red button thingy – and, while we still have problems with underage drinking and smoking of cigarettes, it is LESS of a problem than if we still had strict prohibition vs. careful regulation. I think if we legalized drugs entirely, we’d help not only our own nasty inequalities about incarceration but would flat out END the drug wars in Mexico. Pot alone may help the latter, too. I will let you know which way we come out on this. One thing you can know for sure – I’m gonna get a LOT of hate mail. It will be interesting to see which generates more – our support for NO on 8 or this. I will keep you posted on that, too! » Posted By choicelady On August 18, 2010 @ 9:25 pm This is my one objection. Do we need more fat people who get the munchies? Just asking. » Posted By choicelady On August 18, 2010 @ 9:17 pm GREAT shirt, AdLib! Not seen anything so cool before outside of Buffalo where we had one of the Grammy-winning polka artists. Yes. There ARE Grammy awards for polka. Always have been; that is not an example of falling standards. They started that way. Given that, it’s a wonder Hitler didn’t win, isn’t it? Ah, Buffalo – home of polka, the Barco Lounger, and Brunswick bowling balls, piano rolls, the Thomas Flyer, and once upon a time Mark Twain. Add in the food – beef on kummelwick rolls, kielbasa and pierogis, horseradish cheddar, and loganberry drink. Wings are just the icing on the cake. Could life be sweeter? You’ve brought back memories, AdLib. Thank you! » Posted By choicelady On August 18, 2010 @ 10:03 pm AdLib – I must say you meet the most interesting people, or at least beings. How do you do it? Fascinating to think Herr Hitler is pissed at being dragged into these slurs on our president. Clearly shows that even the teabaggers don’t know squat and have alienated their Hero. I once knew of a man for whom the most comprehensive condemnation of people and ideas he didn’t like (or understand) was to label them “commienazi” which allowed him to exersize NO judgment whatsoever. He’d be right at home today. Thank you for another insightful interview with one of our cultural archetypes. You do get the most amazing stuff out of these guys. Keep it coming! » Posted By choicelady On August 18, 2010 @ 9:10 pmComments Posted By choicelady
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