Sen. Ted Kennedy passed this week after a 15 month battle with a malignant glioma, a type of brain cancer. While the media seems to be focusing on his “political achievements” and all the friends he had on Capitol Hill, Mary Jo Kopechne’s death seems to have been forgotten. Read more »
My boyfriend and I had long talked about whether Pres. George W. Bush had suffered a stroke sometime early on in his presidency. He had been an artful speaker as Governor of Texas, fast on the draw. As president those skills began to wane considerably. I never once believed he was as dumb as the media liked to portray him. If not a stroke, maybe belated effects of his earlier alcoholism had hit him hard and at a bad time.
Much like the people surrounding FDR kept the public from knowing he was in a wheelchair, Bush’s team did an artful job of letting the public believe this was just President Bush’s down-home Texas personality shining through. People in Texas, the Bush camp implied, maybe talk a little plainer and a little slower. Bush, the explanation went, was an Everyman.
The video below is a side by side comparison of Bush’s gubernatorial debate in Texas in 1994 and a later debate in 2004. The difference in speech is striking.
I rarely catch the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, but it appears I missed out on the funniest Palin piece of the month.
What I adore most about Palin is her unpredictability, that nothing in her life has been done by the book. I think she will continue to astound us for years to come.
Why are politicians involved in gay marriage? Why is government involved in marriage at all?
“For the kids.”
Some people say being raised by both a mother and a father in the same household is best for children. If government wants to incentivize one woman and one man Read more »
With all the ills in the country and the world at large, it is high time Pres. Obama get off my flat screen and behind a desk. He somehow has time, long after the election, to appear on “The Tonight Show,” “The Daily Show,” Read more »
It appears the security of Americans abroad has dropped since President Obama took office. Within his few months in office, Somali pirates attacked US ships for the first time (taking the captain hostage), an American journalist was thrown into an Iranian prison, and two journalists are being held against their will in North Korea Read more »
Sonia Sotomayor has been widely praised for pulling herself up by her bootstraps and working her way out of the Bronx projects and first into the Ivy League, then into Law, and now into the limelight as President Obama’s first Sumpreme Court nominee, and in fact the first Latina to be nominated to the highest court in the land.
The surprising thing is the media has gone on… and on… and on about her ethnicity and has reported disappointingly little about her beliefs and her record, which except for a few examples is surprisingly centrist. While very little has been said about her record, a veritable ticker-tape parade has been held over her rising up out of poverty, not just as a person, but as a woman and a Hispanic. Read more »
Increasingly, children and pre-teens are being left unsupervised by the adults in their lives. With no compass to guide them, children seem to be more open to anti-social behavior. Five 6th grade girls created a cartoon for YouTube where they show 5 ways to kill a classmate they don’t like. The report from CNN, which features part of the video set to a Hannah Montana song (for twisted irony) is below.
In The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout estimates that one out of every 25 people is a sociopath. If you work in a midsize or larger company, you probably do so with sociopaths since studies also show that they can excel in a business world that at times is fraught with manipulation and malevolent politics. Think of your child’s classroom. Yep, chances are there is a young sociopath running around with your son or daughter at recess.
My question is: What do you do about it? What do you do when you are acquainted, one way or another, with a possibly sociopathic woman trying to get pregnant? Your gut instinct tells you she has a strong chance of being an unfit, abusive parent. Or you know someone who abuses their pet. This animal abuser is very likely to hurt an equally helpless child. There is no law keeping disagreeable, unlikeable, and possibly antisocial people from becoming pregnant, or doing what they wish with their bodies (up to a point). Read more »
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