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In addition to preparing to deal with a health AND a family issue, I've been really busy helping D Cupples set up our joint venture, Buck Naked Politics. She's an exceptional thinker and writer and joining with her has really energized me.
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Buck Naked Politics is a new venture with my formidable friend and colleague, the politically and legally astute commentator who I will be referring to as "The Crux." The Crux is in charge of administering BNP (I've already got quite a few blogs to manage, as you may have noticed) but it's an equal partnership, and over time I hope to relocate from Versus/Reversus to the much sterner (take a look) pages of BNP where you will find PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL (The Crux don't settle for anything less) and much else to interest and appall.
Our motto: "We strip away the gloss." Well, I might apply a bit here and there because I'm like that but you can be damn sure the rigorously nonpartisan and incredibly detached and objective Crux will strip it right back off again. (Just ask The Crux to tell you the worst two things my beloved Bill Clinton ever did. I promise you neither Whitewater nor Monica Lewinsky will get a look in and unless you are a lawyer I bet you won't even recognize or remember the two pieces of legislation that will be named in the reply).
Though the Crux is still just developing the sidebar content, you can hop on over there anytime to take a look at the following.
You can see yourself: you don't mess around with the Crux!
It's probably a sad commentary on the process that Al and I are wondering if a run for the presidency wouldn't result in the sort of "swiftboat"-style attacks that some of those Republicans have learned to do so very well and if opening himself up to such wouldn't ultimately undercut he crucial contributions he is making in so many other areas.
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AT VERSUS/REVERSUS, IN RE: DELICIOUS IRONIES. Every now and then it's important to stop and ask why. At "Hullabaloo," blogger Digby considers the writings of Clinton critic Douglas Kmiec, past and present. In Re: Comey, Gonzalez, and the State of the Rule of Law; or"Why Do the [Liberal] Heathen Rage?"
AT JUST EAT THE DAMN PEACH: So....the finale! It was both exactly what I expected and not at all what I anticipated. A strange end to an increasingly weird season, with an intriguing couple of cliffhangers at the end. NBC's "The Office:" "The Job." Season Finale....Quickcap and impressions.
It's not good news and it's an issue Americans need to start grappling with....now. But how? We're already overextended on all sides; our attention is so spread out over so many issues that it's greatly to our credit that we manage as well as we do.
I mention Richardson because of his well-known diplomatic skill and acumen and because of his reputation for being able to achieve bipartisan support....About Iran: Three important notes from the blog Secular Blasphemy and another reason why we need Bill Richardson.
You know, there are some things one feels that it's better for everyone if you just don't say. Or at least don't say out loud.
Jerry Falwell offended a lot of people---in my opinion on solid grounds---and was insensitive (to put it mildly) in a number of instances in which insensitivity was (to put it mildly) uncalled for.
One person whom he directly criticized was the Teletubby (now retired), Tinky Winky, whom he accused of role-modeling gay behavior. I loved Tinky Winky (not as much as La-La, but still a lot) back in the days when I was forced to watch endless replays of the TTs while looking after my stepchildren. I love (the retired) Tinky Winky more now, because he spoke of Falwell with comparative restraint. And unlike most of the people who are gleefully dancing on Falwell's grave, he had some reason to be angry with him.
The whole issue set me thinking about the persecution complex of many Christians and wondering hard about how they got to feeling that they ARE persecuted. Surely the shoe has been pretty firmly on the other foot?
Anyway, thank God Jon Swift is around to set me straight on that one... Falwell, Tinky-Winky, Jon Swift, and the Persecuted Church.
The random things are about me are because I got tagged by another blogger, but the 12 paintings---my response this week to the Iterations Challenge---are actually pretty awesome.
Tag; I'm It. 8 Random Facts About Me.
Iterations: My Wednesday Meme. 12 Paintings that Tell or Suggest a Story.
One of my friends said that it's obvious from my blogs that I don't like Giuliani. I don't think that's quite true. It would be more accurate to say that I don't quite feel comfortable about him and that it was the ferret incident that really made me question whether he has the right personality to be the leader of the free world. He seems angry. Of course, as a Democrat, I won't be voting for him even if he takes the nomination. But I'm not trying to pick on him; it's just that the incident with the farming couple from the heartland was so very New York, as I, a southerner, think of New York.
Anyway, just to show his heart (if not his campaign) is really in the right place, he seems to have sorted that out to everyone's immense satisfaction, so that all is now sweetness and light. Well done, Rudy! The Giuliani Campaign and The Little People Kiss and Make Up.
I am Still Mad at the Lady and Will Punish Her if She Goes Out of Town!