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Stay Awaaay from the Crazies

Stay Awaaay from the Crazies

Several older friends and family members apparently enjoy passing around email forwards—harmless activity, I usually think. Except that I’ve reached my limit on glancing over even the subject lines of spooky-rightist-crazy forwards that want me to believe things about President Obama like that he’s a secret Muslim, that all his records were sealed and no one from his former life… Read more →

Stay Awaaay from the Crazies

Several older friends and family members apparently enjoy passing around email forwards—harmless activity, I usually think. Except that I’ve reached my limit on glancing over even the subject lines of spooky-rightist-crazy forwards that want me to believe things about President Obama like that he’s a secret Muslim, that all his records were sealed and no one from his former life… Read more →

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A Few Fun Things I recently attended my very first opera at the Kennedy Center: Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. Slightly expecting a chorus of caterwauling vibrato, it surprised me with interest and delight. The plot is complex enough, but more in a Shakespearean sort of play within a play silliness rather than confusion. Anway. Here I found a set of… Read more →

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A Few Fun Things I recently attended my very first opera at the Kennedy Center: Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. Slightly expecting a chorus of caterwauling vibrato, it surprised me with interest and delight. The plot is complex enough, but more in a Shakespearean sort of play within a play silliness rather than confusion. Anway. Here I found a set of… Read more →

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Want a job? Work for the government! That’s right. Siphon money from me and the rest of the economy. We’re not recovering from a recession or anything. So Japan’s new first lady thinks she visited Venus with UFOs and met Tom Cruise in a former life. Yep. That’s what we all think while dreaming. Speaking of crazy: Am I, or… Read more →

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Want a job? Work for the government! That’s right. Siphon money from me and the rest of the economy. We’re not recovering from a recession or anything. So Japan’s new first lady thinks she visited Venus with UFOs and met Tom Cruise in a former life. Yep. That’s what we all think while dreaming. Speaking of crazy: Am I, or… Read more →

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Catch of the Day I like this phrase: “government fiscal promiscuity,” in “Why Obama’s Ratings are Sinking.” Not sure it’s just because of fiscal irresponsibility, but Jonah Goldberg has another tack at the same idea on the downfall of “Obamacare.” Disagreed with Nathan over whether we each would attend Ted Kennedy’s funeral, given the chance. I said I thought I’d… Read more →