Christmas Traditions
While I realize that different groups have different traditions, one common understanding, firmly enforced by my Mother, is no Christmas decorations or music before Thanksgiving. She complains loudly when she encounters stores that start the process early as she feels it commercializes the season.
Fortunately she hasn’t been able to get out and about since leaving the hospital or she would be thoroughly annoyed by locations that had Christmas merchandise on the shelves before Halloween.
One of those she would be “expelling from the temple” would be a certain terrorist sympathizer who already has Christmas decorations up and Christmas “gifts” available in a most commercial manner, while claiming to be a defender of the holiday.
Commercial exploitation does not a Christian make.
November 15, 2005 Comments Off on Christmas Traditions
The Need For A Liberal Arts Education
Norbizness brings his own inimitable style to the whole issue of habeas corpus and in the end displays one of the common threads of a liberal arts education, which does not require going to college, only the ability and willingness to read.
After he outlines the tortured labyrinthine logic by which Graham attempts to flush a millennia of legal precedent down the odious latrine of Guantánamo, he declares by quote the effort to be “Kafkaesque”.
To those unfamiliar with his writings, I have often described Franz Kafka as Joseph Heller without the humor.
After the Shrubbery, the world will be ready for a Kafka revival. Even in translation from his native German, his descriptions of bureaucracies based on a short term of employment in an insurance company have never been surpassed.
It would be a publishing triumph: The Shrubbery by Franz Kafka, illustrations by Hieronymus Bosch.
November 15, 2005 Comments Off on The Need For A Liberal Arts Education
My Sympathies
NTodd, Stef, Cairo, and Sam have lost their friend, Saffron.
Dot, Sox, Ringo and I join with Bobby, Michael, and others in offering our condolences.
Friends are a gift of great worth and are sorely missed.
November 15, 2005 Comments Off on My Sympathies
Trust Me, I Lied
Everyone knows about Alito’s letter to the Reagan administration when he was seeking a job saying that he was totally opposed to Roe v. Wade, affirmative action, “one man – one vote”, etc.
Well, he met with Senator Feinstein today and indicated that those were just things he said to get a job, and he didn’t really mean them.
Soooooo, you lied to get that job, Sam, and we should believe what you are saying to get this one?
November 15, 2005 Comments Off on Trust Me, I Lied
