Tuesday, March 16

Sometimes David Brooks is Right

In a sensible country, people would see Obama as a president trying to define a modern brand of moderate progressivism. In a sensible country, Obama would be able to clearly define this project without fear of offending the people he needs to get legislation passed. But we don’t live in that country. We live in a country in which many people live in information cocoons in which they only talk to members of their own party and read blogs of their own sect. They come away with perceptions fundamentally at odds with reality, fundamentally misunderstanding the man in the Oval Office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12brooks.html

Friday, February 26

Thursday, December 17

"So you tell the crowd that Prince Jazzbo is very ugly . . .

. . . But if I didn't ugly you wouldn't have the opportunity to call my name in your tune to get promotion."

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/12/the-best-poetry-of-the-year/#comment-26858