Now that President Obama has defeated the dastardly Republicans’ evil War on Women, America has returned to a more normal place, where Democrat legislators in Colorado can lecture women on how to behave while being raped. Thank God–or to avoid offending those not given to bitter clinging, thank the form or being who constitutes the central focus of your particular faith tradition, if you have | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com One of my favorite memories of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, back before the players transformed Orchestra Hall into a UAW Union Hall, is of Neeme Jarvi conducting “O Fortuna,” at the end of “Carmina Burana.” Jarvi was a most entertaining conductor, who threw himself into the music with even more enthusiasm than many of the musicians. I will always remember Jarvi reaching up and | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Ever since President Barack H. Obama (D-Chi) traveled to Tucson, AZ to heal a troubled land, pundits have studied the Republican Party, wondering when that seething morass of hatred and invective will erupt again in partisan vitriol. Early indications are not promising. It is a pity that conservatives are so consumed with hatred and racist rage that Obama’s words of truth, beauty and wisdom | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com Regardless of which point on the political spectrum you occupy, the 2010 midterm elections were essentially meaningless. It really didn’t matter whether Republicans or Democrats won. Whether a Dragon Lady from San Francisco was reelected, ora witch from Delaware went down to defeat. It didn’t matter if Democrats got a “shellacking” because the President was unable to break down his prose into words small | Read More »
http://www.mlgoodell.webs.com It’s never a good thing to pity the President, yet it was hard not to while watching his press conference yesterday. The gist of his comments seemed to be his hope that Republicans had finally learned their lesson. Maybe now, after this historic repudiation of the Democrat Party and its leadership, Republicans will stop throwing up road blocks and will start doing what they’re | Read More »
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