reconciliation

It had been many months, I believe six to be exact, since I had last seen this friend of mine. The last time we were together there was anger and disappointment. My heart rate had been raised to almost unsafe levels and the saltiness of tears had begun to well up in my eyes. I had been crushed and needed to walk away.

Read the full press release and audit by the Comptroller’s office:

I've given so much thought lately to the choices we make versus those that seem made for us. The majority of the things we do, I believe we do of our own volition. We may not want to do them. We do them anyway.

From Liberadio: It seems Mary Mancini and Freddie O’Connell are going to “partner” with Steve Gill to do a political talk radio show called Right Hook, Left Jab. According to the press release, Mary Mancini is

Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín closes Wednesday the 20th at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.

Thanking God this week for...

I just watched the “American Experience” documentary about Buffalo Bill Cody, a figure who has fascinated me for years. Cody once scalped a Native American, and the storyline of his Wild West show was all about him heroically saving white men from Indian savages, cementing a warped Western mythology that, sadly, long outlived Cody.

Nigh Seen Creeder points to a piece by Republican Rich Galen on the current race war in the Democratic Party: