dichotomy

So, I’m reading this profile in Newsweek on her and I’m struck by something I just wanted to say out-loud:

She seems to have thought that her job was to fix John Edwards.

This made me shake my head.  I mean, of course she did.

Several nights ago I was sitting in the dark of Braden’s room; he was cradled in my arms, breathing quietly. As we slowly swayed back and forth in the rocking chair together, lullabyes playing peacefully on the CD player, my mind jumped back and forth. It climbed mountains torturously, then lept off of the summits and plummited into the valleys below.

by Eric Schechter (TAP webmaster)

Slarti has a project going, wherein he rates the general grumpiness of blogs. Leaving aside that any such rating systems are subjective–what constitutes “grumpy” or “negative”–it makes me think back on my own long career with cantankerous writing.

I won’t do it often, but I’ve been thinking. What started it was the aggregator. I looked over there and Brittney Gilbert was praising Bill Hobbs. Seriously doing so.

I was listening to NPR last night when I heard part of a commentary. Someone with a British accent (found the link - Charles Handy) was talking about what, rather than who, we Americans are electing. His said that businesses have a chairman of the board type officer whose job it is to have the vision of where the company is going but they also have CEOs and COOs who deal with the nuts and bolts of running the

Mike Byrd:

The problem with many Republicans is they operate according to the business=good / government=bad dichotomy, while I see both as equally prone to bad even as we expect that they be good. Money is simply the business counterpart to government power.

This guy articulates better than I have my own ambivalence in choosing a Democratic presidential candidate this time around:

Those futures traders are so cute! It’s just like playing Monopoly:

Crude oil futures for February delivery hit $100 on the New York Mercantile Exchange shortly after noon when a single trader bid up the price by buying a modest lot and then sold it immediately at a small loss. Prices eased somewhat in later trading, settling at $99.62.