Archive for September, 2008

Mint

26Sep08

It’s like we’re living in a Kirk Cameron 80’s movie.

EXT/INT. SUNRISE TEENAGE BOY’S MESSY ROOM
A pair of large socked feet hit a floor strewn with comics, candy wrappers, and video games. We hear the GROANS of a grown man irritated at being roused out of sleep.
O.S. (Woman’s voice)
Joooohn! Cmon you’re [...]


more about “Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of …“, posted with vodpod
KCRW’S LEFT RIGHT AND CENTER DISCUSS WALL STREET CRISIS, BAILOUT.


Dear Mom and Dad
Please don’t vote for Palin. As Harry Truman said, ‘if you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote Democrat’.
I love you,
your daughter
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First of all a pro-life catholic perspective.
Secondly, I will live the rest of my life as a middle-class minority woman. If you have to vote [...]


Mabuhay

06Sep08

The other day at the grocery store I said to K that I wanted to grab a bag of Bertolli’s frozen pasta dinner. K asked me if someone had recommended it to me and I answered ‘uh-huh, it was on Top Chef’.
It didn’t really matter that I didn’t listen to Palin’s speech [...]


For Life

04Sep08

I used to think that I was socially moderate—not liberal. Sometimes I even suspected that I had more of a tendency towards more conservative values. When Barack Obama emerged I supported him because he was different and I trusted him despite my distrustful nature and a general feeling of indifference towards politics.
I can [...]