September 15, 2007 archive

Hi ya’ll.  Tonight I’m all about beer blogging.  It’s unconventional, I know.  But if it goes over like a lead balloon I’ll keep doing it ’til someone gives me praise.  So heap on the praise and I’ll stop…

Come…

Ok then!

I was not born in the desert or raised in a lions den….but I was born on Haight Street and raised in with the Dead.

My “favorite” Dead song

posted at dKos
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Let’s try to dispatch this now. John Kerry did not make a gaffe. He said something with which many Dems agreed. And yet when the press started to say it was a gaffe, what did we do? We turned tail and ran from John Kerry. We did the same four years before to Howard Dean with his scream.

It isn’t the press. It’s our willingness to let the press define us. Aren’t you tired of it? I am. Exceedingly tired of it. And you knnow something else. I’m beginning to think this: we are weak. We don’t have enough guts or smarts to stop playing a game dictated by the other-fucking-side.

Do you get what i’m telling you???? Because you should. It’s time to stop this behavior of children. One of the few real men on the political stage, John Kerry, was pushed off by what my friend ek calls whiny ASS titty babies…

Lately I’ve been having a nagging awareness hanging in the back of my head as I try to absorb so much of what’s going wrong in our world today. The title of this post is a short summary of that, but the longer version is the awareness that our actions and inactions have long term consequences that we just might not be able to fix. The poet David Whyte talks often of the “fiercness” of life. I think this is part of what he means by that.

I guess that for most of my life I’ve been priviledged with the white upper middle class kind of thinking that says all problems have a solution. And in these days of instant everything – that solution better be quick in materializing.

Someone has scratched on a wall inside the National Library [Baghdad], “Hu-LA-gu Khan has returned and knocked on our door once again”.

reposted from Daily  Kos, where it was, in part, a reaction to a wonderful diary by Rena.

  I commented that I would add my own diary, about my story and my politics.  I do so here with three aims and hopes: 1) That others may learn about my own particular issues and about learning disabilities in general; 2) As a catharsis for myself and 3) To reflect on the connections between pain and politics.

Thought for the night: the 21 drinking age is stoooopid. I will hold it against Frank Lautenberg and  Liddy Dole for a very long time.

The ultra-left / ultra-progressives among us seem to believe that the protesting left of the web-blogs, the moveon.org’s, et al will combine to form a working majority capable of electing a president of the United States. Elementary mathematics says otherwise.

Welcome.  Glad you’re here.  Consider this a virtual office visit. I have all the time in the world for you.

What brings you here today?

How do you feel?

What are your pressing health concerns?

Are you aware of what you should be doing to keep yourself healthy?  Do you have the resources to do those things?

How’s your relationship with the professional who care for you?  Do you have a primary physician or nurse practitioner?  Are you happy with the diagnostic services available to you?

Instead of my daily dharmaceutical (thanks, homo neurotic, for that fabuloso name)outrage rant, I’d like to open this up as a free-for-all about the issues you would like to have explored about health, health care, health policy and progressive action.