I recently read an article about a proposed change to the drunk driving laws in MN - to lower the legal limit from .08 to zero.
How would that affect your lifestyle???
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Where’s the Outrage?
12-30-05 Molly Ivins correctly points out today that Nixon was driven from office over a crime just like what Bush has done – and there is no surprise that so many of the same players (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc) have been involved w/ both administrations.
The big question she raises is whether the public will summon the outrage this time necessary to remove him from office. I suspect not, and I suspect that the reason is that some of us have been outraged at Bush for 6 years to no effect…
If outrage at needless deaths gets us nowhere, how can we summon outrage for the trampling of our rights? It’s hard for me, personally, to get in a tizzy about my privacy rights when my brother made it home from the Middle East alive. I know I should, but... This administration sucks on so many levels that it’s hard to stay sane unless you flat out ignore it. (Yes, that makes us complicit. And just as bad. And wussies.)
Check out the whole column (at least for a few days) at: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv
Happy new year.
The big question she raises is whether the public will summon the outrage this time necessary to remove him from office. I suspect not, and I suspect that the reason is that some of us have been outraged at Bush for 6 years to no effect…
If outrage at needless deaths gets us nowhere, how can we summon outrage for the trampling of our rights? It’s hard for me, personally, to get in a tizzy about my privacy rights when my brother made it home from the Middle East alive. I know I should, but... This administration sucks on so many levels that it’s hard to stay sane unless you flat out ignore it. (Yes, that makes us complicit. And just as bad. And wussies.)
Check out the whole column (at least for a few days) at: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv
Happy new year.
Where are the Gen X heroes?
12-29-05 I’m teaching a unit on Malcolm X & Frederick Douglass to my high school juniors… and the following week I am discussing the extent to which we may expect Gen X to save the world – or at least America…
Harmonious convergence. (I have no idea what harmonic convergence means.) It just falls together. The X as the signifier of choosing one's own identity, rather than mindlessly accepting that which was otherwise thrust upon us.
Gen X seems to lack the identity that the generations before us had – the defining moments, the character-forging experiences – so we have to create it for ourselves. We also have to create the world for ourselves – to change it for the better, even though so many of our age-mates don’t think that’s even possible.
We are making it on our own, and yet not quite stepping up to leadership in the ways we will need to in the very near future. (Name a few prominent Gen X leaders who are not entertainers!) Leadership will be the next important step for us...
How old is Barak Obama?
Harmonious convergence. (I have no idea what harmonic convergence means.) It just falls together. The X as the signifier of choosing one's own identity, rather than mindlessly accepting that which was otherwise thrust upon us.
Gen X seems to lack the identity that the generations before us had – the defining moments, the character-forging experiences – so we have to create it for ourselves. We also have to create the world for ourselves – to change it for the better, even though so many of our age-mates don’t think that’s even possible.
We are making it on our own, and yet not quite stepping up to leadership in the ways we will need to in the very near future. (Name a few prominent Gen X leaders who are not entertainers!) Leadership will be the next important step for us...
How old is Barak Obama?
Merry Tuesday after Xmas
12-27-05
Christmas was nice - it always is.
This week is the time of hearing from friends who either avoided their family or went (or hosted) and then regretted it. It amazes me how problematic folks can make the holidays. Why are some people so unkind to their own relatives? I don't get it. The "reason for the season" seems to get lost in the chaos...
Maya Angelou's new poem "Amazing Peace" speaks to the peace that we all want, yet find so hard to attain in today's culture:
"...We are thrilled by its presence.
It is what we have hungered for.
Not just the absence of war. But, true Peace.
A harmony of spirit...
Security for our beloveds and their beloveds...
Peace, my brother.
Peace, my sister.
Peace, my soul."
Amen.
Christmas was nice - it always is.
This week is the time of hearing from friends who either avoided their family or went (or hosted) and then regretted it. It amazes me how problematic folks can make the holidays. Why are some people so unkind to their own relatives? I don't get it. The "reason for the season" seems to get lost in the chaos...
Maya Angelou's new poem "Amazing Peace" speaks to the peace that we all want, yet find so hard to attain in today's culture:
"...We are thrilled by its presence.
It is what we have hungered for.
Not just the absence of war. But, true Peace.
A harmony of spirit...
Security for our beloveds and their beloveds...
Peace, my brother.
Peace, my sister.
Peace, my soul."
Amen.
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