Tag Archives: John McCain

Wisdom versus Winning

By CircleReader | November 3, 2008

After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.

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Another Halloween

By CircleReader | October 31, 2008

It’s that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).

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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

By CircleReader | October 8, 2008

Richard Harwood: “When this campaign started, many people, including myself, thought it was a golden opportunity for a real debate between competing visions for the nation’s future. Remember that?”

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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

By CircleReader | September 3, 2008

W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…”
Problems change, but race is still a problem. And [...]

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