resentment

I'm not sure if it's cyclical, or hormonal. Maybe it's just something I can only fight off for a certain period of time.

I am being a bitch. Not just the snarky sarcastic version of myself everyone has come to love and adore. The sex-crazed, over-emotional, insult-muttering uber-bitch.

If you're like me, you've probably wondered for years why 80's familial super group DeBarge broke up. I offer up for your consumption my assessment.

Like many such happenings, it is a simple case of sibling rivalry.

Last night Becky and I headed to the Rocketown (the music venue and skate park) in downtown Nashville for Compassion‘s annual artist appreciation dinner.  Here are the highlights from the evening:

1. My homeboy: Michael beginning his remarks with “Keeping it real and the whole deal.” (Semantic stretch?)

Former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton (and college-mate of Bill), Robert Reich, has a blistering attack on Hillary, McCain and the Media over their typically overwrought and out of touch reactions to Obama's remarks on bitterness felt in small town America:

It is hard for me to forgive someone who has really offended me, especially when it happens more than once. I begin to doubt the sincerity of the one who asks forgiveness for a second, third, or fourth time. But God does not keep count. God just waits for our return, without resentment or desire for revenge.

- Henri Nouwen

The Road to Daybreak

(HT:BN)

In response to criticism of his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his close relationship to Rev. Wright, Barack Obama made a brilliant and eloquent speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

This was an interesting, and not surprising, report about statements from Mike Huckabee on Rev. Wright. (Huckabee on Rev.

A few weeks ago I started reading a book about the Underground Railroad titled “Bound for Canaan”.

One of the most frustrating things about the Republican primary was that while I disliked nearly everyone of Mike Huckabee's policies, from the Fair Tax to abortion to gay rights, I did like him as a person. This is but one more reason why: