Today’s blessed relief comes from Hecate, whose “Discussing the Undiscussible” post goes directly to my own concerns of late: Mystical experience, the experience of the mystic, what it is that mystics experience — that stuff is, almost by definition, idiomatic. It cannot be translated into any standard language, although it is possible that the language [...]
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This is the extemporaneous speech Obama gave to union members in Milwaukee the other day. I first saw it over at Balloon Juice, where John C. said everybody had to watch. He scares me, so I did, but this is something really good: It’s raining manna from the sky right now. Go git some!
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If I make it through tomorrow, that’ll make a whole week without needlessly insulting half a dozen people. This time I only unloaded on one, namely Paul Krugman, in a public forum where thousands of visitors can see what an ass I am. This takes a special kind of talent all by itself, regrettably. I [...]
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This is another plug: Raging Universe, which I’ve mentioned before, is an ironically rather quiet blog that frequently talks about the astrological background of the presidential campaign, among other things. A short while back the author (a woman) more or less predicted the kind of race we’ve seen over the last few weeks, particularly as [...]
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That’s it, I’m off again. Eliminating Safari bookmarks to AmericaBlog, Crooks & Liars, Juan Cole, Daily Kos, Eschaton, Firedoglake, Glenn Greenwald, Huffington Post, Hullabaloo, Paul Krugman, MyDD, Talking Points Memo, TalkLeft, and Think Progress now… [done!] The reason is simple. These days nothing makes me feel so completely worthless and terrible as reading about attempts [...]
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May the magpie that’s on the bird feeder right now peck the eyes right outa my head if I don’t stop leaving comments on political blogs. I don’t even know who it is who does that. It’s like a disease. One in a hundred times, I say something compassionate or light-hearted, the rest of the [...]
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The main reason I’ve always gone to political blogs is simply for the news. However, a more personal reason for hanging around them for so long is undoubtedly the sense of community engendered by exchanging views and comments with like-minded people. This is a fine thing, and I’m a knave for ever dissing it. I [...]
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I feel like I’ve been Rip van Winkled. Like I’m coming out of a cloud bank. There is no rational explanation for this, although political blogs are in the equation, I swear. No, the insider news isn’t helping to cut me loose, just the opposite. I already know what’s going on, but the emotional charge [...]
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The first thing is, don’t get into this unless you have to. I did, and didn’t, so I know what I’m talking about. Feelings are tender all around, and one is liable to fire off personal attacks without knowing the reason why. [Now how would he know that? -- Ed.] There’s a bunch of us [...]
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[Edited & revised] It’s true, I’ve written some embarrassing things in my day. This may turn out to be one of them. Hell, I’ve done some embarrassing things. I’ve also written a number of self-revealing pieces quite outspoken in their anger and pain about certain aspects of my upbringing and its relationship to everything from [...]
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I’ll... I’m really very lucky. This stuff is gasoline in my tank.
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