The Sixty Days of Insanity Are Over
The Associated Press has a wrap-up of the Florida legislative session. The Republicans used cleavers instead of scalpels to cut $5 billion in spending from the budget, a third of a billion dollars lopped off the education budget. The only state workers who will see a pay increase are the Florida Troopers, everyone else who still has a job will have to make do another year without a raise. Oh, they cut their piddling part-time salaries by 5%, BFD.
May 2, 2008 3 Comments
What Hath Wright Wrought?
“In every age the common interpretation of the world of things is by some scheme of unchallenged and unsuspected presuppositions; and the mind of every individual, however little he may think himself in sympathy with his contemporaries, is not an insulated compartment, but more like a pool in a continuous medium — the circumambient atmosphere of his time and place.”
F. M. Cornford Foreword of Thucydides Mythistoricus
The Reverend Doctor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. [BA, MA – Howard University, MA – University of Chicago Divinity School, Doctor of Ministry – United Theological Seminar] was born just before World War II and I was born just after, so we have shared a lot of American history, we have moved through very similar circumambient atmospheres. I can understand him in a way people from younger generations cannot.
May 2, 2008 24 Comments
Just Because
Don’t miss Catnapping’s latest graphic/verse entry: Mayday, Mayday!.
May 2, 2008 2 Comments
Friday Cat Blogging
End of a Lifestyle
I wonder what tutored means?
[Editor: The next time he appears, Excise will be a “retired gentleman cat”.]
May 2, 2008 10 Comments
