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A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Palin has also said that she supports the teaching of creationism (or "intelligent design"). As far as I can see, a vote for her is a vote that brings the world of Margaret Atwood's Gilead one step closer.
ReplyDeleteYa. She's not a leader, she's a dictator. Unfortunately that will appeal to a lot of little dictators out there.
ReplyDeleteCreationism in the classroom and Social Darwinism at large. Some will say that's heaven on earth.
ReplyDeleteShe cut 62 percent of the special ed budget in Alaska! What an advocate!
What scares me about Palin is that she does appeal to a certain female demographics - and if Obama's team underestimates her, it will be a mistake.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more with all the comments here. It's more than a little scary.
ReplyDeleteI just read that Katherine Hall Jamieson from the Annenberg Public Policy Center has found out that Palin actually increased funding for special needs kids--a change in how the state classified items in its budget from one year to the next is what made it appear she'd cut the funding.
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