Work in transition

This may be my last post here at my blogger site. I recently joined a group of friends, acquaintances, and strangers in founding a communal website at sodsbrood.com. It is founded in the spirit of other literary and social communes through history, from the seventeenth century to the modern era. An interest of mine in Graduate school was the radical Christian and political reform movements of

Selling the candidate

In the spirit of digression and disjuncture which seems to characterize my posts today, I wish to comment on some of the ads I've seen in these final days of the campaign. Last week I saw one for Kerry that I thought absolutely brilliant. It was not an ad designed by the Kerry campaign; it was designed by Rob Reiner for MoveOn, and it is perhaps the best ad this season. You can download the

Winding down: 10 days to go

Despite the frenzy that the candidates themselves feel in the final days of an election, these last two weeks always seem to me to be the quietest. Everyone I meet has already made up their mind and are for the most part tuning out the news and election coverage. Much of the campaigning, and almost all of the reporting, has turned negative anyway, as it aways does this time in the season.

I

Christ's Mouthpiece Speaks!

Pat Robertson was on Paula Zahn's CNN program last night. He had some pretty outrageous things to say, as usual, including the claim that he warned President Bush there would be casualties in the war in Iraq, and that Bush responded with confidence that he did not believe there would be any."And I warned him about this war. I had deep misgivings about this war, deep misgivings. And I was trying

Nobody better say nuttin' bout Ted Koppel

Jon Stewart's Friday appearance on CNN's lame "Crossfire" show has generated lots of mixed press for Stewart. Happily, you, too, can watch the entire segment on-line. Considering that "Crossfire" is broadcast at 4:30 in the afternoon, at a time when only housewives and felons under house arrest are at home, it seems likely most people without TiVo will be viewing the segment online. Stewart's

Slouching towards Bethlehem

Lately, the newspapers are full of frank foreboding about how and when Election 2004 is going to be decided this year. Litigiousness looms as the incalculable determining factor in the election.

Among the pundit class, conservatives seem to be the most worried about a close election and the possibility of a run-off in the courts. For MSNBC today, George Will writes about the Dooomsday

You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain

I'm so tired. I slept badly last night. A couple nights a week now, this happens. If it happens on the weekend, it's not so bad because I can stay abed longer, dozing away the morning, or even sleeping deeply if I have finally sunk into somnolence. This morning, however, I gave it up at four-thirty and rose to get ready for work, after a night of wakefulness.

I have blamed my insomnia on