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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| Mind & Society|| Civic Life
Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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Wisdom versus Winning

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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Shelved with: Mind & Society
Tagged With: Wisdom, Barack Obama, Community, Debate, John McCain, Political Friendship, Politics
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Another Halloween

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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Shelved with: The Reading Life
Tagged With: Halloween, Holidays, John McCain, Politics, Stories, Zombies, Fear, Barack Obama, David Bordwell
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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

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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Shelved with: Margin Notes|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Barack Obama, Debate, Fact Checking, John McCain, Nashville, Politics, Presidents, Richard Harwood
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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

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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Tagged With: Alaska, Civility, Election 2008, Gender, John McCain, Politics, Race, Republicans, Richard Harwood, Sarah Palin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Women
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